Chelsy
Chelsy was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,209 among girls’ names; 3,318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,250 Americans named Chelsy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chelsy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chelsy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chelsy is “a female given name transferred from the place name.”
Variant of Chelsea.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chelsy?
#7,209 among girls’ names, 2025
Chelsy fell from #4,319 in 2015 to #7,209 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 9.3 per million.
225 babies in 1992, the peak
Chelsy peaked in 1992, when 225 girls were given it, #878 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,209 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,050 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,585 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,346 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,427 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,513 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,188 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,474 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,500 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,474 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,319 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,916 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,781 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,061 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,846 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,592 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,450 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,591 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,758 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,834 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,483 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,677 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,858 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,127 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,596 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,284 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,772 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,515 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,510 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 128 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 156 | #1,138 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 172 | #1,058 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 225 | #878 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 188 | #994 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,129 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,287 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 136 | #1,128 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 137 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,554 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,640 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,860 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,965 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,309 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,977 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,662 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,630 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,525 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chelsy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chelsy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chelsy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chelsy, and how old are they?
3,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,318 Americans ever recorded as Chelsy. The median Chelsy alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,832 people named Chelsy (2,816 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
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 Chelsy born?
The states with the most babies named Chelsy are California, Texas and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 384 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 309 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 143 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 128 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 53 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Chelsy 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, Chelsy is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 377 babies (4.0%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Chelsy
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 Chelsy and names like it
- Compare Chelsy and ChelseaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChelsy peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chelsy since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Chelsy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Chelsy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chelsy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.