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Stonewall vs Stormie

American parents have registered 4,029 Stormies since 1880, against 696 Stonewalls. Stormie is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Stonewall against Stormie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Stonewall 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 124 years in which either name was published, Stormie for 67 years and Stonewall for 57 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Stonewall Stormie
Total US births 6964,029
Most in one year 23145
Babies in 2025 under 5107
Estimated living today 1504,000
Median age today 6724
Peak year 19181991
Best rank 1,539th boys1,195th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,855th
First recorded 18801956
Girls / boys 0 / 6964,029 / 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 Stonewalls alive today are over 67; half the Stormies are over 24. That is 43 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 Stormie.