Storm
Storm is given to both girls and boys: 150 girls and 69 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,442 among girls’ names and #2,124 among boys’, #2,092 among all names counting both); 6,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Storm every year since 2017.
An estimated 6,240 Americans named Storm and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Storm by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Storm mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Storm is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Storm?
#2,124 among boys’ names, 2025
Storm rose from #2,164 in 2015 to #2,124 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 40.4 per million.
252 babies in 2022, the peak
Storm peaked in 2022, when 252 babies were given it (122 boys, #1,491 among boys’ names). The 219 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| 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 | #2,329 |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,070 | 84 | #1,818 |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,952 | 60 | #2,235 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,265 | 89 | #1,752 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,427 | 64 | #2,164 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,883 | 62 | #2,198 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,163 | 50 | #2,487 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,413 | 59 | #2,231 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,061 | 51 | #2,473 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,482 | 56 | #2,318 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,728 | 45 | #2,744 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,999 | 51 | #2,504 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,284 | 46 | #2,678 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,784 | 50 | #2,470 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,635 | 83 | #1,644 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,772 | 67 | #1,848 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,602 | 85 | #1,524 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,770 | 92 | #1,419 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,144 | 99 | #1,320 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,534 | 97 | #1,329 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,730 | 94 | #1,298 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,950 | 131 | #1,034 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,254 | 138 | #959 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,055 | 136 | #952 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,796 | 165 | #838 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,017 | 147 | #897 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,257 | 133 | #933 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,658 | 140 | #892 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,796 | 151 | #847 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,425 | 109 | #1,015 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,803 | 47 | #1,672 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,152 | 51 | #1,494 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,281 | 33 | #1,929 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,417 | 11 | #4,088 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,769 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,060 | 13 | #3,428 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,416 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,545 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,416 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,211 | 8 | #4,879 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,040 | 9 | #4,354 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,575 | 9 | #4,123 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,091 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,926 | 7 | #4,732 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,562 | 5 | #5,904 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,282 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,921 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,192 | 5 | #5,563 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,944 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,391 | 6 | #3,880 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,961 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,814 | 5 | #4,556 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,987 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,477 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,998 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,888 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,304 | 8 | #3,223 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,783 | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,517 | 5 | #4,308 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,276 | |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,862 | 6 | #3,687 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,773 | 5 | #4,193 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,395 | 5 | #4,136 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,337 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,903 | 5 | #3,961 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Storm a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,394 Americans recorded as Storm, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Storm: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Storm, and how old are they?
6,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,394 Americans ever recorded as Storm. The median Storm alive today is 21 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,530 people named Storm (1,798 women and girls, 2,732 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,939 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 106 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 108 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,430 |
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 Storm born?
The states with the most babies named Storm are Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #2,060 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #1,412 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 14 | #1,249 | 1.4× |
| New York | 13 | #1,551 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 13 | #2,530 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 11 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 9 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 8 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Storm is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Storm is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1946 it was given 1.4 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 boys’ 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 Storm with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Storm
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 Storm and names like it
- Compare Storm and AsanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStorm peaked in 2022.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Storm since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Storm.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Storm alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.