Girls' name · since 1988
Cheslea
45 babies named Cheslea in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #36,132 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 45
- born since 1988
- 1990s
- peak decade
Cheslea sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 45 recorded since 1988.
Cheslea has 45 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 1993.
- #36,132 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 45 born since 1988
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Cheslea ranks #36,132 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 45 born since 1988, peaking in the 1990s.
- #36,132 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 45
- born since 1988
- 1990s
- peak decade
Cheslea's 45 recorded births place it above 49.76% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Cheslea's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Cheslea splits its recorded history at 1990: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1990 (6 births) -- compare that against the 1992 peak of 13 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Cheslea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1993
- Peak year (1992)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Cheslea by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (29 births, 64% of the file).
1990s was Cheslea's strongest decade.
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Cheslea births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
- 1990s
1990s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 29 births (64% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Cheslea: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1992)
Similar record span (~5 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Cheslea draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.