Story
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to girls 92.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 133 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,889since 1971
Story 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 | #1,818 | 110 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #1,579 | 133 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #1,907 | 105 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #2,173 | 86 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #1,948 | 98 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #2,419 | 74 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #2,384 | 76 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #2,211 | 84 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #1,929 | 102 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,964 | 60 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Story! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Story
- 239 spots since 2024 (#1,579 → #1,818)
- 130 spots since 2020 (#1,948 → #1,818)
- 801 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #1,818)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2024 at #1,579 (133 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,182 girls born in 2024 were named Story (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.2% of all girls named Story (835) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #6,900 (1974) | #8,380 |
| 1980s | 27 | #7,469 (1982) | #8,709 |
| 1990s | 88 | #5,771 (1996) | #8,750 |
| 2000s | 291 | #2,485 (2009) | #7,447 |
| 2010s | 835 | #1,789 (2019) | #2,276 |
| 2020s | 625 | #1,579 (2024) | #1,917 |
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.
Story in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 332,765 of them was named Story, which outranked 13.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,321 names at #8,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.