Chelsea

#851 for girls in 2025, 319 births · Last seen for boys in 2018 at #12,156
Given to girls 99.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1992 · 16,177 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
15 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
162,884
since 1910

Chelsea over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201910peak #15, 1992girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#851319—
2024#787358—
2023#712397—
2022#693424—
2021#635466—
2020#644449—
2019#545557—
2018#471664#12,1565
2017#381818—
2016#354933—
2015#3091,057#10,6446
2014#2751,196—
2013#2711,179—
2012#2351,356—
2011#2221,425—
2010#2231,417—
2009#2321,429—
2008#2221,518—
2007#2091,644—
2006#1921,824—
2005#2001,734—
2004#1951,752#6,52011
2003#1761,838—
2002#1791,785#8,4567
2001#1532,120—
2000#1402,380—
1999#1222,725#7,1398
1998#943,518#7,5607
1997#734,461#7,2817
1996#555,864#5,9829
1995#476,761#4,28014
1994#387,718#4,29014
1993#2511,287#3,50118
1992#1516,177#2,99922
1991#1813,509#2,22732
1990#2412,785#2,17033
1989#2711,252#1,61549
1988#338,879#2,09030
1987#476,631#2,46822
1986#733,753#2,68419
1985#753,613#2,71018
1984#843,530#2,61318
1983#1022,708#3,41112
1982#1701,715#4,5938
1981#408542—
1980#412540#6,2505
1979#458443#4,8427
1978#409505#4,5547
1977#421482—
1976#442441#4,9356
1975#509351#4,7976
1974#474377—
1973#630240—
1972#678218—
1971#740202—
1970#692226—
1969#701201—
1968#1,83442—
1967#6,0426—
1966#4,8668—
1965#5,2897—
1964#5,0088—
1963#5,8916—
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1961#6,5675—
1960#4,4379—
1959#5,0317—
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1919#4,8145#3,3917
1918#3,8697#3,7286
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First appearance
1910

The first year at least five girls were named Chelsea! It came in at #2,398, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1910–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Chelsea is popular in 1910

No state had 5 or more girls named Chelsea in 1910, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Chelsea
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 64 spots since 2024 (#787 → #851)
  • 207 spots since 2020 (#644 → #851)
  • 542 spots since 2015 (#309 → #851)
  • Biggest jump: 1,133 spots in 1969 (#1,834 → #701)
  • Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2020 (#545 → #644)
Rise & fade · girls
82 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1910
  • Peaked 1992 at #15 (16,177 births)
  • Births halved by 1994, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 15 yrs · run 1984–1998
  • Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1969–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 114
  • Highest: 1 in 114 girls born in 1992 were named Chelsea (0.88%)
  • Latest: 1 in 5,038 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 52.1% of all girls named Chelsea (84,805) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s24#2,398 (1910)#3,629
1920s25#3,875 (1927)#4,291
1930s15#4,204 (1935)#4,388
1940s5#4,622 (1942)#4,622
1950s31#4,655 (1954)#5,073
1960s292#701 (1969)#4,515
1970s3,485#409 (1978)#545
1980s43,163#27 (1989)#143
1990s84,805#15 (1992)#51
2000s18,024#140 (2000)#190
2010s10,602#222 (2011)#329
2020s2,413#635 (2021)#720

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Chelsea in 1910

girls
#2,398
5 births · 1 in 79,301 girls

Top girls' names in 1910

  1. #1Mary22,848
  2. #2Helen10,479
  3. #3Margaret8,226
  4. #4Dorothy7,318
  5. #5Ruth7,212
  6. #6Anna6,436
  7. #7Elizabeth5,800
  8. #8Mildred5,692
  9. #9Marie4,790
  10. #10Alice4,671
  11. #2,398Chelsea5
More about 1910

girls

396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 79,301 of them was named Chelsea, which outranked 14.1% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chelsea
  1. #2,140Zeola6
  2. #2,140Zina6
  3. #2,140Zylphia6
  4. #2,398Chelsea5
  5. #2,398Adelaida5
  6. #2,398Adina5
  7. #2,398Adria5

Tied with 392 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1909
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Alys#1,957 → #997
  2. ↑ 849Lannie#1,763 → #914
  3. ↑ 766Luz#1,763 → #997
  4. ↑ 762Vivien#1,607 → #845
  5. ↑ 693Buna#1,607 → #914
Fallers
  1. ↓ 864Earl#909 → #1,773
  2. ↓ 864Fleta#909 → #1,773
  3. ↓ 783Elba#990 → #1,773
  4. ↓ 644Odile#990 → #1,634
  5. ↓ 576Claribel#845 → #1,421

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1910 →