Story

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US: ~2,000 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #1,818 among girls
Births in 2025: 120 2,048 since 1880
Typical age: 9 years, median

Story popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1971–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Story in 2024 than in any other year — 144 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,818 with 120 births.

Over ten years the count has risen 64%. Year on year the rank dropped by 239.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Story?

About 2,000 people named Story are alive in the United States today. That is out of 2,048 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 1,900 women and 160 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Story?

Median age among living Storys: 9. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Story a current name.

Your Story

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Story a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

The name leans girls, but 9.4% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 92.2% of births under the name were girls.

Story in England and Wales

ONS recorded 11 births named Story in 2025, ranking it #2,440. That is 83% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Notable people named Story

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
Name		Known for	Years	Editions
	Story Musgrave	American physician and NASA astronaut	1935	34

Photo credits (1)

Story Musgrave — NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Story

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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