Story — #1589 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Story

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,778 babies named Story between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Story currently holds the #1589 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 132 babies received it in a single year. Story is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 149 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Story performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 835 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Story shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Story in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Story in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,778 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.