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Chelsi

#12,174 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chelsi has been given to 4,050 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,174 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 339 recorded.

Babies named Chelsi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Chelsi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chelsi: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chelsi means

Chelsi is a given name.

The naming story behind Chelsi

Wikidata records Chelsi as a given name. The entity identifier is Q96742794, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,050 girls were recorded with the name Chelsi between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 339 in 1991; its best national rank was #649 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,799 in 2020 to #12,174 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,348 in 2015 to #12,174 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Chelsi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,174
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chelsi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chelsi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chelsis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chelsi was born before 1992 — so the typical Chelsi is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,050
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (2,092).

Is Chelsi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,625
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,826
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.1%
Peak was 1991 (339)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#649
1991

Spellings of Chelsi

Chelsi is not the most common spelling — Chelsea is, with 57.0% against Chelsi's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chelsi is used

Across 1910–2025, Chelsi was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 61,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 16,667
  2. 2Idaho1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oregon1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chelsi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chelsi around the world

Where Chelsi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    1993–2009
    #783
    in 2009
  • France
    2008–2009
    #6,478
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1986–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chelsi

People whose public names include Chelsi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chelsi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chelsi. Linked forms have their own page here.

ChelseaChelseyChelsie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chelsi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,174
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,625
Best rank ever
#649
1991
Peak year
1991
339 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,050
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Chelsi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChelsyChenoaCherryChesneyCherriChevelleCheyannCherishChereeCherokeeChelsieCherieCherilynCherrieCheriseChevyCheryleCheryllChelsaCherlyCherlynChelseyChelseCherryl

Names with a curve like Chelsi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chelsi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TieraBrittanieJericaJerricaBrittneeDomoniqueBrittaneyDominqueAnjelicaKrystenJessikaShaniece

Sibling names for Chelsi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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