Chelsea
27
Babies in 2024
-70%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.74k
-23%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Chelsea
Chelsea peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (1,735 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 27 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Chelsea reached its peak in 1996, when 1,735 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #34 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 27 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 13,049 girls have been officially registered with the name Chelsea in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 642 girls were registered with the name, starting from 91 in 2014 and ending at 27 in 2024.