Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Chelby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chelby” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chelby” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Chelby” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Chelby” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Chelby” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Chelby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chelby” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 100%
1991 37 0.000009499 37 100%
1992 35 0.000009112 35 100%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 100%
1994 28 0.000007532 28 100%
1995 31 0.000008465 31 100%
1996 23 0.000006306 23 100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1998 35 0.000009516 35 100%
1999 23 0.000006227 23 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 24 0.000006411 24 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%

Explore other names

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  1. Chela
  2. Chelan
  3. Chelbe
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  5. Chelbie
  6. Chelby (this page)
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  8. Chelcea
  9. Chelcee
  10. Chelcey
  11. Chelci