Chesney
Chesney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 55 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 550.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005131 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1970
- 2,759people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,602 girls have been named Chesney in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 131 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2000s alone account for 35%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 157 boys have also been given it, 5.7% of the total.
By decade
In 2005, its biggest year
Chesney was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Chesney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marielypeak 2008
- Fatimapeak 2006
- Fabianapeak 2007
- Anipeak 2007
- Marianapeak 2005
- Miyapeak 2007
- Akirapeak 2008
- Helainapeak 2003
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.