Stormy
#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 89.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 252 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,709since 1944
Stormy over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,962 | 98 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #1,796 | 112 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #1,903 | 104 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #1,638 | 129 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #1,955 | 100 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #1,654 | 124 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #1,406 | 160 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #1,900 | 105 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #1,779 | 117 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #1,677 | 127 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #1,834 | 110 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #1,807 | 112 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #1,840 | 109 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #1,751 | 118 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #1,687 | 132 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,880 | 113 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #1,784 | 120 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,590 | 135 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #1,878 | 103 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #1,480 | 136 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #1,365 | 148 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #1,386 | 139 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #1,200 | 170 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #1,127 | 181 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #1,103 | 180 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #1,156 | 163 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #997 | 195 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #916 | 214 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #898 | 211 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #809 | 249 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #953 | 198 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #800 | 252 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #860 | 232 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #1,237 | 134 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #1,157 | 142 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #1,300 | 111 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #1,202 | 120 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #1,367 | 94 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #1,133 | 127 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #1,179 | 112 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #1,434 | 81 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #1,551 | 76 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #1,304 | 97 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #1,197 | 110 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #1,113 | 122 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #1,212 | 103 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #1,206 | 101 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #1,167 | 98 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #1,252 | 90 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #1,252 | 87 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #1,361 | 73 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #1,565 | 59 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #1,350 | 79 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #1,736 | 52 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #1,685 | 51 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #2,164 | 31 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #2,249 | 28 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #1,518 | 56 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,061 | 33 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #2,605 | 22 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,028 | 29 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,519 | 19 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1944
The first year at least five girls were named Stormy! It came in at #3,687, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 166 spots since 2024 (#1,796 → #1,962)
- 308 spots since 2020 (#1,654 → #1,962)
- 285 spots since 2015 (#1,677 → #1,962)
- Biggest jump: 377 spots in 1991 (#1,237 → #860)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 1998 (#997 → #1,156)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1992 at #800 (252 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1991–1997
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,172
- Highest: 1 in 7,172 girls born in 1994 were named Stormy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #800 in 1992, was only 1 in 7,317 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 26.3% of all girls named Stormy (2,028) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1949
- Mostly boys until 1948, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 26 | #3,393 (1949) | #3,595 |
| 1950s | 173 | #2,028 (1957) | #2,845 |
| 1960s | 316 | #1,518 (1964) | #2,252 |
| 1970s | 864 | #1,113 (1979) | #1,321 |
| 1980s | 1,070 | #1,133 (1985) | #1,282 |
| 1990s | 2,028 | #800 (1992) | #973 |
| 2000s | 1,377 | #1,127 (2000) | #1,538 |
| 2010s | 1,188 | #1,406 (2019) | #1,761 |
| 2020s | 667 | #1,638 (2022) | #1,818 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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