Chesney — #2977 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Chesney

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,602 babies named Chesney between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chesney currently holds the #2977 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 131 babies received it in a single year. Chesney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 157 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chesney performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 920 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Chesney shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 247 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Chesney in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chesney 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 2,602 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.