Chessa

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Chessa by the numbers

Chessa was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 20 babies in 1995, making it a 1990s name.

What we can tell you about Chessa

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chessa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Chelseachalk landing place or port813 in the US (2017)
  • Chelsychalk landing place; variant of Chelsea31 in the US (2017)
  • Cesia44 in the US (2017)
  • Chenoa14 in the US (2017)
  • Chelsi11 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Chessa

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