Chelsa
Chelsa was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 1,107 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Chelsa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 34 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chelsa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chelsa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,232, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
80 babies in 1990, the peak
Chelsa peaked in 1990, when 80 girls were given it, #1,795 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,232 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,857 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,383 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,338 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,314 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,514 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,648 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,857 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,671 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,612 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 33 | #3,366 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,705 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,382 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,874 | 40.7 |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,031 | 35.7 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,795 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,715 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,838 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,029 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,198 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,110 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,581 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,727 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,649 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,448 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,017 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,070 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,210 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,843 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,069 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,176 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,410 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,002 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,540 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,612 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,068 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,642 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chelsa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chelsa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chelsa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chelsa, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,107 Americans ever recorded as Chelsa. The median Chelsa alive today is 38 years old; half are between 34 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,008 people named Chelsa (995 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 207 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 778 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 86 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 219,808 babies since 1880, Chelsa is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 377 babies recorded by SSA was a Chelsa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chelsa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chelsa and names like it
- Compare Chelsa and ChelseaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChelsa peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chelsa since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Chelsa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chelsa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.