Chesley
Chesley is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 636th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192348 births
- Best rank
- #636in 1894
- Since 1880
- 2,908people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,283 boys have been named Chesley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Chesley is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are girls (625), most of them born around 1989.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Chesley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 46 | |
| 1890s | 61 | |
| 1900s | 66 | |
| 1910s | 241 | |
| 1920s | 378 | |
| 1930s | 270 | |
| 1940s | 263 | |
| 1950s | 218 | |
| 1960s | 151 | |
| 1970s | 161 | |
| 1980s | 165 | |
| 1990s | 113 | |
| 2000s | 65 | |
| 2010s | 66 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Chesley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Chesley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorseypeak 1916
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Horacepeak 1921
- Vernpeak 1920
- Walterpeak 1918
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Albertpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.