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Stonewall vs Storm

American parents have registered 6,394 Storms since 1880, against 696 Stonewalls. Storm is still ahead, with 219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stonewall against Storm, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stonewall Storm

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 124 years in which either name was published, Storm for 70 years and Stonewall for 54 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Stonewall Storm
Total US births 6966,394
Most in one year 23252
Babies in 2025 under 5219
Estimated living today 1506,200
Median age today 6720
Peak year 19181995
Best rank 1,539th boys837th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,108th
First recorded 18801946
Girls / boys 0 / 6962,789 / 3,605

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 Stonewalls alive today are over 67; half the Storms are over 20. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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