Chelsea

girls:

162.2k births since 1910

#243 (96th percentile)

boys:

451 births since 1914

#4135 (10th percentile)

overall:

162.6k births since 1910

#460 (94th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chelsea".

1910 2023 19102023

Key Statistics

Total Births
162,198
Peak Births
16,175
Peak Year
1992
First Recorded
1910
Peak Percentile
98.4%
Current Percentile
38.9%
Peak Rank
#15
Current Rank
#579
Female statistics
Total Births
451
Peak Births
49
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
6.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#456
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Chelsea

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Chelsea. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 67.4% confident that Chelsea is pronounced as CHEHL-see. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEHL-suh, at 15.2% confidence.

CHEHL-suh (2 syllables)
15.2% confidence
CH EH1 L S AH0
CHEHL-see-uh (3 syllables)
10.9% confidence
CH EH1 L S IY0 AH0
CHEHL-see-UH (3 syllables)
6.5% confidence
CH EH1 L S IY0 AH1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Chelsea. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Chelsea, please vote using the thumbs up button.

CHEHL-say (2 syllables)
3 names 501 births
CH EH1 L S EY0
CHEEL-see (2 syllables)
4 names 434 births
CH IY1 L S IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like CH EH1 L S IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.