Chelsea vs Cheron

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Chelsea Cheron

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 95 years in which either name was published, Chelsea for 81 years and Cheron for 14 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1910–1942 Chelsea ahead
• 1945–1949 Cheron ahead
• 1959–1961 Chelsea ahead
• 1962–1967 Cheron ahead
• 1968–2025 Chelsea ahead

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cherons alive today are over 48; half the Chelseas are over 33. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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