# Chesley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chesley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,919 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,294 / 625 (21% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 | 10,762 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,208 |
| 2008 | 8 | 12,842 |
| 2009 | 10 | 10,854 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,605 |
| 2013 | 8 | 12,235 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,299 |
| 2015 | 6 | 14,899 |
| 2017 | 8 | 11,887 |
| 2018 | 7 | 12,765 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,724 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,622 |
| 2021 | 7 | 12,482 |
| 2022 | 10 | 9,846 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,417 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 | 6,152 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,172 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,179 |
| 2005 | 13 | 5,923 |
| 2009 | 10 | 7,787 |
| 2010 | 13 | 6,410 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,069 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,651 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,118 |
| 2014 | 10 | 7,648 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8,891 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,000 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6,704 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,912 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,283 |

## People named Chesley

- Chesley Sullenberger, American commercial airline pilot
- Chesley Bonestell, American science fiction and space illustrator (1888-1986)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.