girls:
31.5k births since 1969
#796 (86th percentile)
boys:
65 births since 1984
#4521 (1st percentile)
overall:
31.5k births since 1969
#1432 (82nd percentile)
The name Chelsey is the #1,432 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,519 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 81.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #796 (86.1% percentile) for all time with 31,454 births since 1969. For boys, it ranks #4,521 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1984.
Chelsey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for girls and 1984 for boys).
The name Chelsey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Chelsey reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 86.5% percentile (ranked #117) with 1,437 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 1,437 births per million (ranked 86.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chelsey ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Chelsey reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #715) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chelsey".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Chelsey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Chelsey is pronounced as CHEHL-see, which has 2 syllables.
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