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Chelsy

Chelsy reached its high-water mark in 1992 at number 878, and has been recorded 3,318 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,133rd. About 3,300 Chelsys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chelsy

By the numbers

Total US births
3,318
Estimated living today
3,300
Median age today
30
Peak year
1992
Best rank
878th
Rank in 2025
7,133rd
First recorded
1971

How old the living Chelsys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,318 babies given the name since 1971, about 3,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 640 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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

Variant of Chelsea.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Chelsy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chelsy is most concentrated in Florida (2.6×), Texas (2.5×), California (2.4×), Utah (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1992

The most popular girls’ names the year Chelsy peaked:

All the names of 1992

Chelsy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Chelsy 1,110 691st
England and Wales girls Chelsy 222 796th
Belgium girls Chelsy 203 495th
Scotland girls Chelsy 15 552nd
Ireland girls Chelsy 6 689th
Northern Ireland girls Chelsy 3 413th

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.

Chelsy: rank by region

In 2011, Chelsy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Chelsy 746 6

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.

Related names

Chelsy against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.