Chelsea
Chelsea is ranked 784th among girls in 2024 (358 births). Its best rank was 15th, in 1992.
- Rank in 2024
- #784down 72 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3580.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 199216,177 births
- Best rank
- #15in 1992
- Since 1910
- 162,562people given the name
The story in the numbers
162,562 girls have been named Chelsea in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 16,177 births — 0.88% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 358 births in 2024, against 16,177 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 52%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Chelsea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | |
| 1920s | 25 | |
| 1930s | 15 | |
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 31 | |
| 1960s | 292 | |
| 1970s | 3,485 | |
| 1980s | 43,164 | |
| 1990s | 84,804 | |
| 2000s | 18,024 | |
| 2010s | 10,601 | |
| 2020s | 2,092 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Chelsea was the 15th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1992 were Ashley, Jessica, Amanda, Brittany and Sarah. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Chelsea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chelsiepeak 1992
- Shaniecepeak 1992
- Chelseypeak 1992
- Chelseepeak 1992
- Chelsipeak 1991
- Britnypeak 1990
- Markiepeak 1990
- Tesiapeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.