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Chelsey

Chelsey means "Old English, landing place for chalk or limestone" and comes from Old English, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It was at its most popular in the 1990s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a solidly familiar choice. It has shown up in U.S. birth records across 6 of the last twelve decades.

EtymologyVariant of Chelsea
Old EnglishOld English – "landing place for chalk or limestone"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
13
1970s
498
1980s
8,977
1990s
16,852
2000s
3,735
2010s
1,138
Peaked in the 1990s · 31,213 total U.S. births since 1900