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Chelsia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Chelsia has been given to 387 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Chelsia, 2009

1 in 478,000

Chelsia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chelsia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chelsia means

Chelsia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chelsia is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 387 girls were recorded with the name Chelsia between 1969 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,873 in 1992.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chelsia?

Chelsia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,006 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chelsia 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 2009 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 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chelsia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chelsias were born

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

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
387
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Chelsia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (41)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,873
1992

Spellings of Chelsia

Chelsia is not the most common spelling — Chelsea is, with 49.6% against Chelsia's 0.12%.

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 Chelsia is used

Across 1910–2025, Chelsia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,754,417 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Chelsia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chelsia around the world

Where Chelsia 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.

  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,276
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chelsia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,873
1992
Peak year
1992
41 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
387
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chelsia

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

ChesneeChelsaeCherellChenitaLanasiaElaysiaCherronCheyannElissiaCheniseCherikaAleesiaCherithElyssiaChenellCheynneChessieChesleyChelceeCherityTylasiaCherylnCherinaCherysh

Sibling names for Chelsia

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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