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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 19,080 of them was named Story, which outranked 87.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,154Taryn87
- #2,154Yitty87
- #2,154Zamira87
- #2,173Story86
- #2,173Adleigh86
- #2,173Avia86
- #2,173Azari86
- #2,186Alizah85
- #2,186Andromeda85
- #2,186Annalisa85
Tied with 12 names at #2,173; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 194,387 of them was named Story, which outranked 42.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,587Zoren10
- #7,587Zurich10
- #7,587Zyren10
- #8,166Story9
- #8,166Aahir9
- #8,166Aari9
- #8,166Aarion9
- #8,825Aadhiran8
- #8,825Aadrik8
- #8,825Aarian8
Tied with 658 names at #8,166; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.