Chelsea
The girl's name Chelsea has been in the national records since 1910, with 163,335 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 851st. About 160,000 Chelseas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chelsea boys named Chelsea
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 163,335
- Estimated living today
- 160,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 15th
- Rank in 2025
- 851st
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 162,884 / 451
How old the living Chelseas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 163,335 babies given the name since 1910, about 160,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
From Old English Ċealchȳþ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chelseas
- Chelsea Manning (born 1987)American activist and whistleblower
- Chelsea Clinton (born 1980)American author and global health advocate
- Chelsea Kane (born 1988)American actress and singer
- Chelsea Handler (born 1975)American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
- Chelsea Peretti (born 1978)American comedian and actress
- Chelsea Charms (born 1976)American adult model and stripper
- Chelsea Wolfe (born 1983)American singer-songwriter
- Chelsea Green (born 1991)Canadian professional wrestler
People named Chelsea with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chelsea is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chelsea is most concentrated in Alaska (2.4×), Vermont (2.1×), Hawaii (1.9×), Nevada (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular girls’ names the year Chelsea peaked:
Chelsea elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Chelsea | 13,084 | 34th |
| France girls | Chelsea | 2,560 | 262nd |
| Scotland girls | Chelsea | 2,240 | 39th |
| New Zealand girls | Chelsea | 1,943 | 19th |
| Belgium girls | Chelsea | 1,052 | 118th |
| Ireland girls | Chelsea | 947 | 54th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Chelsea | 382 | 35th |
| Switzerland girls | Chelsea | 129 | 564th |
| Poland girls | Chelsea | 16 birth registrations | 397th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Chelsea: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Chelsea | 74 | 0.006% | 474th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Chelsea | 53 | 0.012% | 388th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Chelsea | 2 | 0.003% | 189th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Chelsea: rank by region
In 2023, Chelsea was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Chelsea | 379 | 7 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Chelsea appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (177th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Chelsea by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 425th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Chelsea among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Chelsea | 33 | 60 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Chelsea against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.