Story
#1,831 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Story has been given to 2,048 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,831 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 133 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.
Babies named Story, 2025
1 in 30,100
Story over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Story over time
In 2025, Story went to 92% girls and 8% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Story?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 30,100
- 110 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,831
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Story sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Story. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Storys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Story was born before 2016 — so the typical Story is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,889
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (835).
Is Story rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −242
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +127
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +812
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.62×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 82.7%
- Peak was 2024 (133)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Story
Story is not the most common spelling — Stacy is, with 51.6% against Story's 0.59%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Story is used
Across 2016–2025, Story was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 24,773 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 14,286
- 2Kentucky1 in 16,667
- 3Arkansas1 in 20,000
- 4Florida1 in 20,000
- 5Nevada1 in 20,000
- 6Texas1 in 20,000
- 7Colorado1 in 25,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Story around the world
Where Story ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2009–2025#2,440in 2025
- Canada2008–2021#3,354in 2021
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Story by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Story
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Story
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.