Stormy
Stormy is given to both girls and boys: 98 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,979 among girls’ names and #7,607 among boys’, #3,353 among all names counting both); 8,609 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,310 Americans named Stormy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Stormy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Stormy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Stormy is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Stormy?
#1,979 among girls’ names, 2025
Stormy fell from #1,684 in 2015 to #1,979 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 71.1 to 61.0 per million.
288 babies in 1992, the peak
Stormy peaked in 1992, when 288 babies were given it (252 girls, #799 among girls’ names). The 109 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,979 | 11 | #7,607 |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,808 | 11 | #7,687 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,918 | 10 | #8,175 |
| 2022 | 129 | #1,646 | 8 | #9,713 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,968 | 10 | #8,080 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,666 | 10 | #7,974 |
| 2019 | 160 | #1,411 | 15 | #6,058 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,912 | 8 | #9,543 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,791 | 14 | #6,290 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,702 | 9 | #8,711 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,684 | 7 | #10,473 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,938 | 6 | #11,914 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,847 | 8 | #9,536 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,822 | 12 | #6,976 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,853 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,759 | 9 | #8,695 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,694 | 8 | #9,733 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,887 | 6 | #12,346 |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,791 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,595 | 12 | #6,846 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,890 | 10 | #7,567 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,485 | 13 | #6,083 |
| 2003 | 148 | #1,370 | 19 | #4,393 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,390 | 17 | #4,670 |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,204 | 17 | #4,643 |
| 2000 | 181 | #1,131 | 18 | #4,351 |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,104 | 17 | #4,309 |
| 1998 | 163 | #1,158 | 16 | #4,382 |
| 1997 | 195 | #998 | 20 | #3,566 |
| 1996 | 214 | #917 | 27 | #2,816 |
| 1995 | 211 | #898 | 25 | #2,907 |
| 1994 | 249 | #808 | 24 | #3,012 |
| 1993 | 198 | #956 | 39 | #2,079 |
| 1992 | 252 | #799 | 36 | #2,160 |
| 1991 | 232 | #863 | 37 | #2,042 |
| 1990 | 134 | #1,238 | 40 | #1,934 |
| 1989 | 142 | #1,158 | 17 | #3,423 |
| 1988 | 111 | #1,312 | 19 | #2,935 |
| 1987 | 120 | #1,206 | 18 | #2,928 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,378 | 11 | #4,089 |
| 1985 | 127 | #1,137 | 14 | #3,365 |
| 1984 | 112 | #1,183 | 10 | #4,164 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,445 | 12 | #3,596 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,564 | 5 | #7,236 |
| 1981 | 97 | #1,313 | 10 | #4,110 |
| 1980 | 110 | #1,205 | 11 | #3,814 |
| 1979 | 122 | #1,116 | 16 | #2,884 |
| 1978 | 103 | #1,219 | 9 | #4,124 |
| 1977 | 101 | #1,212 | 9 | #4,118 |
| 1976 | 98 | #1,171 | 9 | #3,966 |
| 1975 | 90 | #1,257 | 14 | #2,885 |
| 1974 | 87 | #1,259 | 13 | #2,924 |
| 1973 | 73 | #1,370 | 13 | #2,839 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,576 | 6 | #4,922 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,361 | 5 | #5,564 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,752 | 7 | #4,186 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,709 | 6 | #4,351 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,199 | 5 | #4,666 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,059 | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,297 | 5 | #4,465 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,985 | 7 | #3,506 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,530 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,090 | 8 | #3,291 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,654 | 6 | #3,988 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,821 | 9 | #3,070 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,639 | 8 | #3,308 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,508 | 5 | #4,508 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,847 | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,062 | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,707 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,274 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,586 | 6 | #3,775 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,086 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,767 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,973 | 7 | #3,323 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,930 | 5 | #4,137 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,585 | 5 | #4,142 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,983 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,979 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,016 | under 5 |
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 Stormy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,609 Americans recorded as Stormy, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Stormy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Stormy, and how old are they?
8,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,609 Americans ever recorded as Stormy. The median Stormy alive today is 30 years old; half are between 17 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 6,653 people named Stormy (5,974 women and girls, 679 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,701 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 338 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,190 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
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 Stormy born?
The states with the most babies named Stormy are Texas, California and Missouri, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,779 | 1.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,736 | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,068 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,444 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,293 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,612 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,657 | 0.3× |
| Kansas | 5 | #681 | 0.4× |
Where Stormy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Stormy is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1944 it was given 3.9 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 Stormy 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 17,638 babies since 1880, Stormy is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 536 babies (20%), the second 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 Stormy
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 Stormy and names like it
- Compare Stormy and StormiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sStormy peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Stormy since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Stormy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Stormy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Stormy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.