How popular is “Chelsea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chelsea” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chelsea” 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 “Chelsea” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chelsea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chelsea” 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
1910	5	0.000008464	5		100%
1914	5	0.00000353		5	-100%
1915	7	0.00000382	7		100%
1916	7	0.000003619		7	-100%
1918	13	0.000005988	7	6	8%
1919	12	0.000005687	5	7	-17%
1920	5	0.00000221		5	-100%
1922	7	0.000003058	7		100%
1924	6	0.000002519		6	-100%
1925	6	0.000002571	6		100%
1926	5	0.000002178	5		100%
1927	7	0.000003018	7		100%
1930	10	0.000004498	5	5	0%
1932	5	0.000002368	5		100%
1935	5	0.000002392	5		100%
1942	5	0.00000183	5		100%
1944	5	0.000001859		5	-100%
1950	6	0.000001713	6		100%
1952	5	0.000001316	5		100%
1954	7	0.000001758	7		100%
1956	5	0.000001213		5	-100%
1957	6	0.000001428	6		100%
1959	7	0.000001684	7		100%
1960	9	0.000002167	9		100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5		100%
1963	6	0.000001516	6		100%
1964	8	0.000002058	8		100%
1965	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1966	8	0.000002302	8		100%
1967	6	0.000001767	6		100%
1968	42	0.000012432	42		100%
1969	201	0.000057836	201		100%
1970	226	0.000062664	226		100%
1971	202	0.000058852	202		100%
1972	218	0.000069361	218		100%
1973	240	0.000079552	240		100%
1974	377	0.000124013	377		100%
1975	357	0.000118236	351	6	97%
1976	447	0.000147316	441	6	97%
1977	482	0.00015174	482		100%
1978	512	0.000161317	505	7	97%
1979	450	0.000135257	443	7	97%
1980	545	0.000158223	540	5	98%
1981	542	0.000156676	542		100%
1982	1723	0.000491168	1715	8	99%
1983	2720	0.000785369	2708	12	99%
1984	3549	0.001017268	3531	18	99%
1985	3631	0.00101734	3613	18	99%
1986	3772	0.001060421	3753	19	99%
1987	6652	0.001844901	6630	22	99%
1988	8910	0.002411339	8880	30	99%
1989	11301	0.002939564	11252	49	99%
1990	12817	0.003242776	12784	33	99%
1991	13541	0.003476272	13509	32	100%
1992	16199	0.004217091	16177	22	100%
1993	11305	0.002998452	11287	18	100%
1994	7732	0.002079807	7718	14	100%
1995	6775	0.001850004	6761	14	100%
1996	5873	0.001610279	5864	9	100%
1997	4468	0.001232297	4461	7	100%
1998	3525	0.000958347	3518	7	100%
1999	2733	0.000739875	2725	8	99%
2000	2380	0.000629646	2380		100%
2001	2120	0.000566332	2120		100%
2002	1792	0.000479363	1785	7	99%
2003	1838	0.000483389	1838		100%
2004	1763	0.000461407	1752	11	99%
2005	1734	0.000450993	1734		100%
2006	1824	0.00046105	1824		100%
2007	1644	0.000411238	1644		100%
2008	1518	0.000386194	1518		100%
2009	1429	0.000374067	1429		100%
2010	1417	0.000383415	1417		100%
2011	1425	0.000389579	1425		100%
2012	1356	0.000370759	1356		100%
2013	1179	0.000323398	1179		100%
2014	1195	0.000322417	1195		100%
2015	1063	0.000287226	1057	6	99%
2016	933	0.000254314	933		100%
2017	818	0.000228735	818		100%
2018	669	0.000190279	664	5	99%
2019	557	0.000160476	557		100%
2020	449	0.000134408	449		100%
2021	465	0.000137251	465		100%
2022	424	0.000125328	424		100%
2023	396	0.000119594	396		100%
2024	358	0.000107556	358		100%

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