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The first name 
Chelsy

Chelsy is a female first name.

When two girls called Chelsy meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Chelsy is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Chelsy. In the SmartGenius ranking, Chelsy is #3,837 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Chelsy.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Chelsy

Chelsy -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Chelsy, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to women and girls named Chelsy. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Chelsy living in one state or another. If your name is Chelsy and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Chelsy relative to the population, you still have to ask 33,772 women and girls their names before you hear Chelsy as an answer just once.

Chelsy has 6 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With six letters, the name Chelsy is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.

Other names with 
C, h, e, l, s and y

If you take all the letters in the name Chelsy – C, h, e, l, s and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Chyles or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Chelsy

If your name is Chelsy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Chelsy

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Chelsy, you can simply say:

Cat

Hat

Elephant

Lion

Sun

Yoyo

This is how the name Chelsy is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Chelsy in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Chelsy

Chelsy

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Chelsy

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Chelsy is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
H
E
L
S
Y

Have you ever waved the name Chelsy

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
H
E
L
S
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Chelsy sounds like this: