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Stokes vs Stormi

American parents have registered 4,184 Stormis since 1880, against 196 Stokeses. Stormi is still ahead, with 291 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stokes against Stormi, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stokes Stormi

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 81 years in which either name was published, Stormi for 64 years and Stokes for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Stokes Stormi
Total US births 1964,184
Most in one year 11357
Babies in 2025 8291
Estimated living today 904,100
Median age today 57
Peak year 19162024
Best rank 2,389th boys790th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th908th
First recorded 18921957
Girls / boys 0 / 1964,184 / 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 Stormis alive today are over 7; half the Stokeses are over 5. That is 2 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: Stokes and Stormi.