Chessa
Chessa was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 436 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chessa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chessa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,805, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1995, the peak
Chessa peaked in 1995, when 20 girls were given it, #4,875 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,805 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,618 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,041 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,166 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,515 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,012 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,094 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,141 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,147 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,732 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | #7,506 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,768 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,515 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,147 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,665 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,692 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,585 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,869 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,224 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,293 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,508 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,443 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,927 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,783 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,875 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,194 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,104 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,068 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,725 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,422 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,543 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,726 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,133 | 4.6 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,698 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,324 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,557 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,595 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,622 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,379 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,475 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,943 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,956 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,335 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chessa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chessa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chessa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chessa, and how old are they?
An estimated 427 Americans named Chessa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 16 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Chessa (424 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,046 babies since 1880, Chessa is the second most given (42% of them).
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 Chessa
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 Chessa and names like it
- Compare Chessa and ChessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChessa peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chessa since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Chessa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chessa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.