Girls' name · since 1988
Chaeli
262 babies named Chaeli in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #17,131 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 262
- born since 1988
- 2000s
- peak decade
Chaeli sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 262 recorded since 1988.
Chaeli has 262 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2012.
- #17,131 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 262 born since 1988
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Chaeli ranks #17,131 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 262 born since 1988, peaking in the 2000s.
- #17,131 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 262
- born since 1988
- 2000s
- peak decade
Chaeli's 262 recorded births place it above 76.27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Chaeli's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Chaeli's full recorded timeline at 2003, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1988, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2006 peak of 37 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Chaeli popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2012
- Peak year (2006)
- 37
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Chaeli by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (218 births, 83% of the file).
2000s was Chaeli's strongest decade.
218 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Chaeli births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 24
1990s
24 births
- 2000s
2000s
218 births
- 2010s 15
2010s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 218 births (83% of all-time use).
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- Chaeli's decade-level peak was the 2000s (218 total births); usage has since declined to 15 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Chaeli: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~24 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Chaeli draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.