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Shellsea

Girl · SHEL-see · English

Shellsea is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “chalk landing place”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Shellsea mean?

English: spelling of Shelsea, itself a spelling of Chelsea, a London place name

“chalk landing place”

Variant of Chelsea, the London district whose Old English name means a landing place for chalk on the Thames.

Say it
SHEL-see

Meaning borrowed from Shelsea.

Is Shellsea a girl's or a boy's name?

Shellsea is a girls' name.

How popular is Shellsea in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Shellsea in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 13 in 19982010
Shellsea in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20080–
200712#9,535
20068#12,415
20056#14,495
20045#16,092
20038#11,319
20020–
20019#10,095
20000–
199913#7,233
199813#7,099
19976#12,065
19967#10,562
19956#11,778
19947#10,563
19930–
19927#10,471
19915#13,139
19900–
19890–
19885#11,792

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