Chevelle
Chevelle was given to 101 girls in 2025, #1,912 among girls’ names; 4,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,970 Americans named Chevelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chevelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chevelle?
#1,912 among girls’ names, 2025
Chevelle fell from #1,601 in 2015 to #1,912 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 75.1 to 62.8 per million.
245 babies in 2019, the peak
Chevelle peaked in 2019, when 245 babies were given it (234 girls, #1,075 among girls’ names). The 110 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,912 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,839 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,526 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,742 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 234 | #1,075 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 133 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 166 | #1,403 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,601 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 164 | #1,401 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 137 | #1,570 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,748 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,899 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,981 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,209 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,199 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,514 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,553 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,929 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,801 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,404 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,719 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,012 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,582 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,047 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,536 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,236 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,803 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,413 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,395 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,541 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,486 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,035 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,636 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,566 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,491 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,265 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,516 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,751 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,016 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,355 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,257 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,979 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,129 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,332 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,640 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,298 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,364 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,026 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 83 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chevelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,057 Americans recorded as Chevelle, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 101 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chevelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chevelle, and how old are they?
3,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,057 Americans ever recorded as Chevelle. The median Chevelle alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,724 people named Chevelle (2,517 women and girls, 207 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 124 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 369 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Chevelle born?
The states with the most babies named Chevelle are Pennsylvania, Missouri and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,037 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 7 | #748 | 1.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,845 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,314 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,406 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,398 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,256 | 0.5× |
Where Chevelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chevelle is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1963 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chevelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,124 babies since 1880, Chevelle is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 110 of their 110 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Chevelle
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 Chevelle and names like it
- Compare Chevelle and ChevellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sChevelle peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chevelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Chevelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Chevelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.