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Stoney vs Stormie

American parents have registered 4,029 Stormies since 1880, against 3,260 Stoneys. Stormie is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Stoney 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 92 years in which either name was published, Stoney for 51 years and Stormie for 41 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Stoney Stormie
Total US births 3,2604,029
Most in one year 259145
Babies in 2025 49107
Estimated living today 2,8004,000
Median age today 4624
Peak year 19631991
Best rank 498th boys1,195th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240th1,855th
First recorded 19221956
Girls / boys 168 / 3,0924,029 / 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 Stoneys alive today are over 46; half the Stormies are over 24. That is 22 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: Stoney and Stormie.