Meaning not yet researched.
Story: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,589 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,589 in 2024; #1,831 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Story in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,831 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,589.
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Story: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,589 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 133 (2024).
In 2025, 110 US girls were named Story, making it the 1,831st most common girls’ name of the year, down 242 places from #1,589 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 133 girls named Story in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,589, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 133. For comparison, it was #2,643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Story in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 2,048 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 885 babies named Story.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 958 US girls were named Story; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Story ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #654 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Stori (1,536 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Storie, Storey and Storii 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Storie (604), Storey (276), Storii (147), Storee (60), Storri (29).
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 Story 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #654 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,342 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,475 | #2,696 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,536 | #2,375 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,674 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,891 | #2,564 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,831 | 10 | #8,163 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,589 | 11 | #7,693 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,088 | 18 | #5,432 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,917 | 14 | #6,432 |
| 2021 | 86 | #2,183 | 9 | #8,740 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,958 | 13 | #6,574 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,798 | 8 | #9,626 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,435 | 10 | #8,080 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,399 | 6 | #12,037 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,643 | 5 | #13,787 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,153 | 5 | #13,802 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,233 | 7 | #10,584 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,382 | 9 | #8,702 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,570 | 5 | #13,752 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,855 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,617 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,067 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,228 | 5 | #12,247 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,676 | 7 | #9,104 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,796 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,184 | 5 | #11,383 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,335 | 7 | #8,334 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,451 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,028 | 5 | #10,347 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,447 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,631 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,640 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,134 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,701 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,129 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,949 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,959 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,043 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,681 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,565 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,432 | — | — |
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).