Girl · Old English place name
Chelsey
Say it: CHEL-see
Meaning
A spelling of Chelsea, the London district name, Old English 'chalk landing place'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in the US mainly in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 31,396 babies given this name since 1969
- At its height in 1992, about 1 in 640 girls
- 44 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Chelsea, Chelsie
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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