first name
CHELSEY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 26,913 people named Chelsey, 77.1% reported their origin as White, 8% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.7% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Chelsey peaked in 1992, when 2,886 babies got the name.
At least 31,563 babies have been given the name since 1969. 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.
Chelsey by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #372. The largest share of babies named Chelsey, 73.4%, 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 Chelsey is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chelsey has been most common in North Dakota (3×), Utah (2.9×), and Hawaii (2.3×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.28×).
29,650 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 Chelsey, most common first.
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