Storm
About 6,394 American babies have been named Storm since 1946, most of them around 1995. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,108th. About 6,200 Storms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Storm
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Storm crossed from boys to girls in 2017, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 68% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 39 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,394
- Estimated living today
- 6,200
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 837th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,108th
- First recorded
- 1946
- Girls / boys
- 2,789 / 3,605
How old the living Storms are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,394 babies given the name since 1946, about 6,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,900 of them are children and 80 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Storms
- Storm Thorgerson (1944–2013)English graphic designer
- Storm Reid (born 2003)American actress
- Storm Hunter (born 1994)Australian female tennis player
- Storm Roux (born 1993)Australian footballer
- Storm Uru (born 1985)New Zealand rower
- Storm Large (born 1969)American actress and singer
- Storm Jameson (1891–1986)British writer
People named Storm with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Storm is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Storm is most concentrated in Florida (3.3×), Ohio (3.2×), Pennsylvania (1.9×), North Carolina (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular boys’ names the year Storm peaked:
Storm elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark boys | Storm | 3,376 | 28th |
| Norway boys | Storm | 2,108 | 49th |
| England and Wales girls | Storm | 1,084 | 625th |
| England and Wales boys | Storm | 381 | 1,143rd |
| Belgium boys | Storm | 367 | 379th |
| Scotland girls | Storm | 46 | 380th |
| Ireland girls | Storm | 4 | 734th |
| Scotland boys | Storm | 4 | 614th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Storm | 3 | 384th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Storm: rank by region
In 2024, Storm was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Storm | 487 | 11 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Storm appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (234th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Storm among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Storm | 1,428 | 1,921 |
| the Netherlands girls | Storm | 80 | 132 |
| Finland boys | Storm | 14 | 30 |
| Finland girls | Storm | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Storm against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.