Stori
Stori was given to 136 girls in 2025, #1,558 among girls’ names; 1,536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Stori and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stori by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Stori?
#1,558 among girls’ names, 2025
Stori rose from #4,969 in 2015 to #1,558 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 84.6 per million.
166 babies in 2024, the peak
Stori peaked in 2024, when 166 girls were given it, #1,372 among girls’ names. The 141 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 166 | #1,372 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,706 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,546 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,553 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,957 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,190 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,417 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,987 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,428 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,969 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,611 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,994 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,234 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,668 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,089 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,095 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,727 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,524 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,187 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,031 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,455 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,339 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,162 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,276 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,787 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,163 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,497 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,262 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,498 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,267 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,811 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,925 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,931 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Stori a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Stori has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Stori: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stori, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,536 Americans ever recorded as Stori. The median Stori alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 657 people named Stori (647 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 58 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 52 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 295 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Stori born?
The states with the most babies named Stori are Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 14 | #398 | 2.3× |
| New York | 13 | #1,152 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #810 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,185 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,063 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,153 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,443 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,611 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,185 | 0.1× |
Where Stori is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stori is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Stori with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,671 babies since 1880, Stori is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 141 of their 362 babies (39%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Stori
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Stori and names like it
- Compare Stori and StoryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStori peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stori since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Stori.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Stori alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.