Story
Story was given to 110 girls in 2025, #1,831 among girls’ names; 2,048 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Story and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Story by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Story?
#1,831 among girls’ names, 2025
Story rose from #2,643 in 2015 to #1,831 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 38.1 to 68.4 per million.
144 babies in 2024, the peak
Story peaked in 2024, when 144 babies were given it (133 girls, #1,589 among girls’ names). The 120 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,831 | 68.4 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,589 | 82.1 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,088 | 58.0 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,917 | 64.0 |
| 2021 | 86 | #2,183 | 52.4 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,958 | 60.6 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,798 | 67.9 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,435 | 43.5 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,399 | 44.0 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,589 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,643 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,153 | 49.8 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,233 | 47.9 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,937 | 57.9 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,365 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,382 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,505 | 41.4 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,608 | 38.1 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,990 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,568 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,850 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,611 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,060 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,222 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,669 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,788 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,178 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,330 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,446 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,023 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,441 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,625 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,634 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,127 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,696 | 4.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,127 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,946 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,958 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,041 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,679 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,563 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,430 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Story a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,048 Americans recorded as Story, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 110 girls and 10 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Story: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Story, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,048 Americans ever recorded as Story. The median Story alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,400 people named Story (1,252 women and girls, 148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,364 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 66 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 629 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Story born?
The states with the most babies named Story are California, Florida and Texas, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Story 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, Story is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 120 of their 362 babies (33%), 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 Story
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 Story and names like it
- Compare Story and StoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sStory peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Story since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Story.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Story alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.