Chevelle — #1754 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Chevelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,685 babies named Chevelle between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chevelle currently holds the #1754 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 233 babies received it in a single year. Chevelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 258 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chevelle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,484 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Chevelle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 237 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Chevelle in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chevelle 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 3,685 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.