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Chesney

Rank in 2024
#3,000
Born in 2024
55
Peak year
2005 · #1560
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 55 girls were named Chesney, about 1 in every 29,331.
  • It peaked in 2005 with 131 babies, ranked #1560.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1970.
  • 2,602 girls have been named Chesney since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Chesney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 68 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 361 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,308 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 865 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Norman place names meaning “oak grove” (cognate to French chênaie), from Picard quesne, from Vulgar Latin *cassanus, probably from Gaulish kassanos (“oak”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Chesney, CC BY-SA 4.0.