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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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.
See more about Stormy
- 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)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1992 at #800 (252 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1991–1997
- 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
- 26.3% of all girls named Stormy (2,028) were born in this decade
- 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.
Stormy in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 13,550 of them was named Stormy, which outranked 90.9% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,128Christiana128
- #1,128Shequita128
- #1,128Shonda128
- #1,133Stormy127
- #1,133Dionne127
- #1,133Florence127
- #1,133Malorie127
- #1,138Chante126
- #1,138Chantell126
- #1,138Crista126
Tied with 4 names at #1,133; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 132,015 of them was named Stormy, which outranked 57.6% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,070Wendy15
- #3,070Wilhelm15
- #3,070Zackory15
- #3,216Stormy14
- #3,216Abdulrahman14
- #3,216Alastair14
- #3,216Albino14
- #3,401Abdulaziz13
- #3,401Aldon13
- #3,401Alegandro13
Tied with 184 names at #3,216; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.