Chelsee
Chelsee was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,742 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Chelsee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 29 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chelsee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chelsee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,962, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
165 babies in 1992, the peak
Chelsee peaked in 1992, when 165 girls were given it, #1,092 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #13,962 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,194 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,881 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,194 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,292 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,382 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,740 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,731 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,917 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,605 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 21 | #6,357 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,390 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,879 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,266 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,135 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,091 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,361 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,761 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,875 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,676 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,646 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,573 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,360 | 32.2 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,795 | 46.8 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,636 | 51.2 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,726 | 47.6 |
| 1993 | 149 | #1,172 | 82.4 |
| 1992 | 165 | #1,092 | 89.5 |
| 1991 | 127 | #1,302 | 67.7 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,336 | 62.7 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,538 | 49.9 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,512 | 50.0 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,663 | 42.0 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,787 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,406 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,308 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,482 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,376 | 10.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,187 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,748 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,626 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chelsee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chelsee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chelsee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chelsee, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,742 Americans ever recorded as Chelsee. The median Chelsee alive today is 33 years old; half are between 29 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,439 people named Chelsee (1,436 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 413 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 63 |
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).
Where are babies named Chelsee born?
The states with the most babies named Chelsee are California, Texas and Ohio, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 119 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 56 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chelsee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Chelsee?
Chelsee is a less common spelling of Chelsey: SSA has recorded 1,742 Chelsee and 31,563 Chelsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 219,808 babies since 1880, Chelsee is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 377 babies recorded by SSA was a Chelsee (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 Chelsee
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 Chelsee and names like it
- Compare Chelsee and ChelseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChelsee peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chelsee since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Chelsee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chelsee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.