Meaning not yet researched.
Storm: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,442 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 68% of babies named Storm in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,442 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Storm: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,442 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 150 (2025).
In 2025, 150 US girls were named Storm, making it the 1,442nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 176 places from #1,618 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 129 girls named Storm in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,442, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 150. For comparison, it was #2,427 in 2015 and #3,396 in 1950.
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Storm, making it the 2,124th most common boys’ name of the year, down 250 places from #1,874 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 86 boys named Storm in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #841, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 165. For comparison, it was #2,164 in 2015 and #4,138 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Storm in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 11 babies. In all, 6,394 US babies have been given the name, 44% of them girls and 56% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,900 babies named Storm.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,203 US girls were named Storm; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,715 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Storm ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #504 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Stormy (8,609 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Storme are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Storme (106).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Storm in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 11 | #504 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #824 | #1,078 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #920 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,067 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,121 | #1,435 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,192 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,232 | #1,813 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,291 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,397 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,044 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,259 | #3,901 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,890 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,442 | 69 | #2,124 |
| 2024 | 129 | #1,618 | 86 | #1,874 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,510 | 102 | #1,677 |
| 2022 | 130 | #1,636 | 122 | #1,491 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,514 | 106 | #1,612 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,653 | 104 | #1,577 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,917 | 59 | #2,330 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,070 | 84 | #1,819 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,952 | 60 | #2,236 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,265 | 89 | #1,752 |
| 2015 | 76 | #2,427 | 64 | #2,164 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,885 | 62 | #2,200 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,164 | 50 | #2,489 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,414 | 59 | #2,232 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,062 | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,483 | 56 | #2,319 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,729 | 45 | #2,745 |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,000 | 51 | #2,505 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,284 | 46 | #2,678 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,785 | 50 | #2,471 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,639 | 83 | #1,646 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,776 | 67 | #1,852 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,605 | 85 | #1,527 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,774 | 92 | #1,422 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,148 | 99 | #1,324 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,538 | 97 | #1,332 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,733 | 94 | #1,301 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,953 | 131 | #1,037 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,257 | 138 | #961 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,057 | 136 | #954 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,800 | 165 | #841 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,022 | 147 | #900 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,262 | 133 | #935 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,663 | 140 | #895 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,802 | 151 | #851 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,430 | 109 | #1,019 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,809 | 47 | #1,677 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,157 | 51 | #1,499 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,286 | 33 | #1,933 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,421 | 11 | #4,092 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,772 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,064 | 13 | #3,430 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,419 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,547 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,418 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,213 | 8 | #4,881 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,042 | 9 | #4,356 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,577 | 9 | #4,125 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,093 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,928 | 7 | #4,734 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,564 | 5 | #5,906 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,284 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,923 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,194 | 5 | #5,565 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,946 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,392 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,962 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,815 | 5 | #4,558 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,988 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,999 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,305 | 8 | #3,224 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,784 | 6 | #3,890 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,519 | 5 | #4,309 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,279 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,864 | 6 | #3,689 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,774 | 5 | #4,194 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,396 | 5 | #4,138 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,338 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,905 | 5 | #3,962 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).