Chesley — boys' name

What the Data Says About Chesley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,283 babies named Chesley between 1880 and 2021, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chesley currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Chesley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 625 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chesley performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 378 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Chesley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Chesley in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chesley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,283 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.