How rare is the name Stormy?

6,653 people in the United States have the first name Stormy, about 1 in 45,398. It ranks #3,232 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

STORMY

#3,232

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,653
About
1 in 45,398
This common or more
81.9%
Who bears it

Of the 6,653 people named Stormy, 76.2% reported their origin as White, 7.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.8% as two or more races. 89.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Stormy peaked in 1992, when 288 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19442025
Peak year
1992
Births that year
288
In 2025*
109 ▼62%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,609 babies have been given the name since 1944. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Stormy by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,549. The largest share of babies named Stormy, 32.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#7,27644
1950s#3,859208
1960s#3,055376
1970s#2,000965
1980s#1,9751,197
1990s#1,5492,309
2000s#2,5091,497
2010s#3,0061,286
2020s#3,121727
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–645%
Generation X 1965–8014.8%
Millennials 1981–9632.5%
Generation Z 1997–1228.6%
2013 and later19.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Stormy is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Stormy has been most common in Oklahoma (7.5×), Arkansas (4.7×), and Texas (4.1×), and least common in Michigan (0.28×).

4,341 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Stormy

1 other first name also has 6,653 people.

#3,232 Charla · 6,653

Either side of Stormy

#3,231 Krystyna · 6,654#3,232 Charla · 6,653#3,234 Benedict · 6,647#3,235 Asma · 6,646

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Stormy, most common first.

#4,208 Storm · 4,530#7,784 Stormi · 1,919#32,949 Stormey · 253#34,364 Storme · 238

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