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Chelsie vs Cheyenne

American parents have registered 73,428 Cheyennes since 1880, against 13,855 Chelsies. Cheyenne is still ahead, with 285 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chelsie against Cheyenne, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chelsie Cheyenne

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 81 years in which either name was published, Cheyenne for 72 years and Chelsie for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Chelsie Cheyenne
Total US births 13,85573,428
Most in one year 1,2234,975
Babies in 2025 18285
Estimated living today 14,00072,000
Median age today 3326
Peak year 19921996
Best rank 227th girls68th girls
Rank in 2025 6,325th920th
First recorded 19361946
Girls / boys 13,855 / 070,732 / 2,696

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 Chelsies alive today are over 33; half the Cheyennes are over 26. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Chelsie Cheyenne
France 1252,575
England and Wales 1,1991,128
Belgium 7635
Scotland 12750
Ireland 3542
Northern Ireland 1313

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chelsie and Cheyenne.