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

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Peak · girls
1992 · 252 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,709
since 1944

Stormy over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201944peak #800, 1992peak #1,909, 1990girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,96298#7,19411
2024#1,796112#7,25711
2023#1,903104#7,73810
2022#1,638129#8,9908
2021#1,955100#7,58710
2020#1,654124#7,50210
2019#1,406160#5,81315
2018#1,900105#8,8198
2017#1,779117#6,06014
2016#1,693126#8,1469
2015#1,677127#9,5687
2014#1,922104#10,7176
2013#1,834110#8,7898
2012#1,807112#6,62612
2011#1,840109#7,50210
2010#1,751118#8,1399
2009#1,687132#8,9858
2008#1,880113#11,0376
2007#1,784120—
2006#1,590135#6,46012
2005#1,878103#7,09610
2004#1,480136#5,81313
2003#1,365148#4,27619
2002#1,386139#4,50217
2001#1,200170#4,47617
2000#1,127181#4,20418
1999#1,103180#4,16217
1998#1,156163#4,19716
1997#997195#3,45520
1996#916214#2,74727
1995#898211#2,84725
1994#809249#2,95124
1993#953198#2,05039
1992#800252#2,12836
1991#860232#2,01937
1990#1,237134#1,90940
1989#1,157142#3,32517
1988#1,300111#2,86019
1987#1,202120#2,83818
1986#1,36794#3,88211
1985#1,133127#3,21614
1984#1,179112#3,92510
1983#1,43481#3,41112
1982#1,55176#6,3855
1981#1,30497#3,85810
1980#1,197110#3,61511
1979#1,113122#2,77716
1978#1,212103#3,8579
1977#1,206101#3,8369
1976#1,16798#3,7249
1975#1,25290#2,75114
1974#1,25287#2,79913
1973#1,36173#2,71613
1972#1,56559#4,4416
1971#1,35079#4,9075
1970#1,73652#3,8367
1969#1,68551#3,9356
1968#2,16431#4,1365
1967#2,96318#3,5596
1966#2,24928#3,9485
1965#1,95035#3,2447
1964#1,51856—
1963#2,06133#3,0448
1962#2,60522#3,6406
1961#2,75220#2,9009
1960#2,57322#3,0778
1959#2,45822#3,9885
1958#2,75518#3,9445
1957#2,02829#3,2577
1956#2,62219—
1955#2,22224—
1954#2,51919#3,4526
1953#2,92114—
1952#3,55210—
1951#3,7149#3,0667
1950#3,6629#3,6815
1949#3,39310#3,6905
1948—#2,7888
1947#3,7069#3,7335
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First appearance
1944

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.

Where Stormy is popular in 1944

No state had 5 or more girls named Stormy in 1944, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Stormy
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1944
  • Peaked 1992 at #800 (252 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1991–1997
Share of babies · girls
1 in 7,172
  • 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
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 26.3% of all girls named Stormy (2,028) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1949
  • Mostly boys until 1948, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s26#3,393 (1949)#3,595
1950s173#2,028 (1957)#2,845
1960s316#1,518 (1964)#2,252
1970s864#1,113 (1979)#1,321
1980s1,070#1,133 (1985)#1,282
1990s2,028#800 (1992)#973
2000s1,377#1,127 (2000)#1,538
2010s1,188#1,406 (2019)#1,761
2020s667#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 1944

girls
#3,687
7 births · 1 in 189,603 girls

Top girls' names in 1944

  1. #1Mary62,476
  2. #2Barbara39,196
  3. #3Linda38,415
  4. #4Patricia36,874
  5. #5Carol30,456
  6. #6Sandra26,024
  7. #7Nancy23,218
  8. #8Sharon22,433
  9. #9Judith22,431
  10. #10Betty19,761
  11. #3,687Stormy7
More about 1944

girls

1,327,223 girls got a published name in 1944; 1 in 189,603 of them was named Stormy, which outranked 29.7% of the 5,243 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Stormy
  1. #3,378Yetta8
  2. #3,378Yevonne8
  3. #3,378Yolonda8
  4. #3,687Stormy7
  5. #3,687Aaron7
  6. #3,687Adelfa7
  7. #3,687Aldean7
  8. #4,054Acquanetta6
  9. #4,054Adel6
  10. #4,054Adelene6

Tied with 366 names at #3,687; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1943
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,229Dorinda#1,834 → #605
  2. ↑ 611Deirdre#1,556 → #945
  3. ↑ 504Alana#1,251 → #747
  4. ↑ 460Elyse#1,327 → #867
  5. ↑ 407Joella#1,395 → #988
Fallers
  1. ↓ 613Michal#996 → #1,609
  2. ↓ 493Aloma#762 → #1,255
  3. ↓ 448Louvenia#916 → #1,364
  4. ↓ 347Norine#889 → #1,236
  5. ↓ 341Lyla#864 → #1,205

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1944 →