Chelsea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English place name used as a given name; from Old English meaning 'landing place for chalk/limestone'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɛlsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chelsea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 564 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
143,411 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chelsey in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English place name used as a given name; from Old English meaning 'landing place for chalk/limestone'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chelsea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #521 | 143,411 | 1 in 2.3K | 143K | Chelsea | 564 |
| CN China | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Chelsea | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Chelsey | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | #508 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 5 | Chelsea | 257 |
| AU Australia | #360 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 127 | Chelsea | 222 |
| CA Canada | #477 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 3 | Chelsea | 260 |
| GY Guyana | — | 151 | 1 in 5K | 151 | — | 7 |
143,411 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chelsea is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An urban area in west London, on the north bank of the river Thames, in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, city, MA; London borough; pers.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Origine anglaise, signifie « près du port »; prénom géographique apparu en Angleterre dans les années 1960.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Luogo di scarico del gesso
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chelsea Fieldb. 1957USAmerican actress
- Chelsea Handlerb. 1975USAmerican comedian, actress, author and talk show host
- Chelsea Blueb. 1976USAmerican pornographic actress
- Chelsea Perettib. 1978USAmerican comedian and actress
- Chelsea Clintonb. 1980USAmerican author and global health advocate
- Chelsea Wolfeb. 1983USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Chelsea Manningb. 1987USAmerican activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
- Chelsea Kaneb. 1988USAmerican actress and singer
- Chelsea Greenb. 1991CACanadian professional wrestler
- Chelsea Cutlerb. 1997USAmerican singer-songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143K | #395 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 319 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 273 | #395 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 151 | #444 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2020 | 127 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2020 | 74 | #97 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2020 | 74 | #97 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2020 | 53 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 47 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 22 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2022 | 5 | #531 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chelsea mean, and where does it come from?
- English place name used as a given name; from Old English meaning 'landing place for chalk/limestone'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Chelsea a male or female name?
- Chelsea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Chelsea?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɛlsi/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Chelsea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,411 people named Chelsea in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chelsea compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chelsea is the 521st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Chelsea have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 143 thousand people named Chelsea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chelsea.
- What are other forms of the name Chelsea?
- In the etymology graph, Chelsey, Chelsie and Chelsy are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Chelsea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chelseaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chelsea” — the 521st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.