first name
CHELSEA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 143,411 people named Chelsea, 72.2% reported their origin as White, 10.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Chelsea peaked in 1992, when 16,199 babies got the name.
At least 163,335 babies have been given the name since 1910. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Chelsea by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #80. The largest share of babies named Chelsea, 71.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Chelsea is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chelsea has been most common in Alaska (2.4×), Vermont (2×), and Nevada (1.9×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.42×).
161,226 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Chelsea, most common first.
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