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.
Where Story is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#909 · 1 in 5,090
- Texas#1,614 · 1 in 11,912
- California#1,749 · 1 in 14,976
- Florida#1,753 · 1 in 13,955
Best ever in a state: #483 in Kentucky, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #909 | 6 | 1 in 5,090 |
| Texas | #1,614 | 14 | 1 in 11,912 |
| California | #1,749 | 14 | 1 in 14,976 |
| Florida | #1,753 | 6 | 1 in 13,955 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 20,071 of them was named Story, which outranked 88.9% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,129Rian90
- #2,129Vianey90
- #2,129Yana90
- #2,139Story89
- #2,139Aaradhya89
- #2,139Adalynne89
- #2,139Alaiyah89
- #2,154Ameerah88
- #2,154Cailey88
- #2,154Dora88
Tied with 14 names at #2,139; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 384,174 of them was named Story, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,973 names at #12,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.