Entry № 1944 · English origin

Chelsea Chelsea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEL-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Chalk landing place (Chelsea Clinton + Chelsea FC)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "chalk landing place (chelsea clinton + chelsea fc)".

Chelsea is from the Old English cealc (chalk) + hȳð (landing place) — referring to the iconic London district. Princess Chelsea — English-American heritage naming.

Chalk landing place (English).

The name in its native script.

Chelsea
Transliteration
Chelsea
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɛl.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chelsea stands.

Chelsea does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chelseas before her.

Real people
Chelsea Clinton
American + Stanford + Oxford + Columbia + Clinton Foundation Vice Chair.
born 1980
In fiction
Chelsea
English chalk landing place.

Names connected to Chelsea.

The number behind Chelsea.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chelsea reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.