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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 22,717 of them was named Story, which outranked 87.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,357Shaniya77
- #2,357Winona77
- #2,357Zuleyka77
- #2,384Story76
- #2,384Aahana76
- #2,384Annalynn76
- #2,384Ayat76
- #2,401Abella75
- #2,401Adara75
- #2,401Annalyn75
Tied with 16 names at #2,384; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 308,493 of them was named Story, which outranked 24.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,696Zylas7
- #9,696Zymarion7
- #9,696Zyrus7
- #10,775Story6
- #10,775Aadhavan6
- #10,775Aadhyan6
- #10,775Aahaan6
- #12,246Aadrit5
- #12,246Aagam5
- #12,246Aaidyn5
Tied with 1,470 names at #10,775; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.