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Stockton vs Stormie

American parents have registered 4,029 Stormies since 1880, against 1,366 Stocktons. Stormie is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stockton against Stormie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stockton Stormie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Stormie for 67 years and Stockton for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Stockton Stormie
Total US births 1,3664,029
Most in one year 62145
Babies in 2025 35107
Estimated living today 1,3004,000
Median age today 1324
Peak year 20201991
Best rank 2,212th boys1,195th girls
Rank in 2025 3,314th1,855th
First recorded 19171956
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3664,029 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Stormies alive today are over 24; half the Stocktons are over 13. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Stockton and Stormie.