Chesnie
Chesnie was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 169 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chesnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chesnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,416, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Chesnie peaked in 2008, when 16 girls were given it, #7,821 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #12,416 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,196 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,362 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,741 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,370 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,863 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,823 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,678 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,821 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,833 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 14 | #8,336 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,584 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,915 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,822 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,967 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,217 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,385 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chesnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chesnie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chesnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chesnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 167 Americans named Chesnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 170 people named Chesnie (170 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Chesnie?
Chesnie is a less common spelling of Chesney: SSA has recorded 169 Chesnie and 2,821 Chesney since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,300 babies since 1880, Chesnie is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 66 babies recorded by SSA was a Chesnie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chesnie
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 Chesnie and names like it
- Compare Chesnie and ChesneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChesnie peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Chesnie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chesnie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.