Chelsey vs Cheryle
American parents have registered 31,563 Chelseys since 1880, against 5,476 Cheryles. Chelsey is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Chelsey Cheryle
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 92 years in which either name was published, Chelsey for 52 years and Cheryle for 40 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Chelsey | Cheryle | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 31,563 | 5,476 |
| Most in one year | 2,886 | 278 |
| Babies in 2025 | 18 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 31,000 | 4,300 |
| Median age today | 33 | 69 |
| Peak year | 1992 | 1947 |
| Best rank | 117th girls | 492nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 6,325th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1969 | 1925 |
| Girls / boys | 31,498 / 65 | 5,476 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Cheryles alive today are over 69; half the Chelseys are over 33. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Chelsey North Dakota (3.0×), Utah (2.9×), Hawaii (2.3×)
- Cheryle Massachusetts (2.6×), Washington (2.1×), California (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chelsey and Cheryle.