Chelsie
Chelsie was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,370 among girls’ names; 13,855 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,500 Americans named Chelsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 30 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chelsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chelsie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chelsie is “a female given name.”
Variant of Chelsea.
/ˈt͡ʃɛlsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chelsie?
#6,370 among girls’ names, 2025
Chelsie fell from #2,718 in 2015 to #6,370 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 11.2 per million.
1,223 babies in 1992, the peak
Chelsie peaked in 1992, when 1,223 girls were given it, #227 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,370 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,667 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,417 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,196 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,331 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,512 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,184 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,344 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,831 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,177 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,718 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,690 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,135 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,485 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,061 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,992 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,753 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 155 | #1,444 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,462 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 145 | #1,428 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,374 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,405 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,013 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 208 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 259 | #832 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 355 | #650 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 397 | #585 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 520 | #473 | 0.30 |
| 1995 | 595 | #433 | 0.34 |
| 1994 | 746 | #354 | 0.42 |
| 1993 | 999 | #277 | 0.55 |
| 1992 | 1,223 | #227 | 0.66 |
| 1991 | 1,090 | #256 | 0.58 |
| 1990 | 1,014 | #273 | 0.53 |
| 1989 | 1,006 | #266 | 0.55 |
| 1988 | 810 | #306 | 0.45 |
| 1987 | 640 | #367 | 0.37 |
| 1986 | 410 | #507 | 0.24 |
| 1985 | 364 | #547 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 363 | #530 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 266 | #647 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 160 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,609 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,091 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,275 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,844 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,973 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,180 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,639 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,563 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,147 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,107 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,219 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,290 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chelsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chelsie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chelsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chelsie, and how old are they?
13,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,855 Americans ever recorded as Chelsie. The median Chelsie alive today is 34 years old; half are between 30 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 11,816 people named Chelsie (11,777 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 362 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 417 |
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 Chelsie born?
The states with the most babies named Chelsie are Texas, California and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,043 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 1,002 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 842 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 476 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 474 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 466 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 419 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Utah | 417 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 393 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 372 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Chelsie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chelsie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1936 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Chelsie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 219,808 babies since 1880, Chelsie is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 377 babies (4.8%), again the third most given.
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 Chelsie
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 Chelsie and names like it
- Compare Chelsie and ChelseaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChelsie peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chelsie since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Chelsie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chelsie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.