Chelse
Chelse was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 838 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chelse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chelse?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,573, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1992, the peak
Chelse peaked in 1992, when 74 girls were given it, #1,892 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,573 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,643 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,278 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,688 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,052 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,826 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,173 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,641 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,115 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,127 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 | #7,321 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,386 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,402 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,516 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,030 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,257 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,152 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,892 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,932 | 38.4 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,201 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,025 | 33.6 |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,069 | 31.4 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,730 | 20.7 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,372 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,175 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,859 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,314 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,436 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,889 | 5.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,713 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,836 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chelse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chelse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chelse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chelse, and how old are they?
An estimated 818 Americans named Chelse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 31 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 960 people named Chelse (951 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Chelse rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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, Chelse is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 377 babies recorded by SSA was a Chelse (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 Chelse
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 Chelse and names like it
- Compare Chelse and ChelseaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChelse peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chelse since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Chelse.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chelse alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.