Storey

At the 2020 census, 13,360 Americans bore the surname Storey — 2,636th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,360
Rank: 2,636th
How common: 1 in 22,400
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

Originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. Even though it has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”, R.E.K. Rigbeye, in his book The Storey’s of Old claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Storey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.1%
Black, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Storey

David Storey (1933–2017)British writer
Dudley Storey (1939–2017)New Zealand rower
Sarah Storey (born 1977)British swimmer, track and road cyclist
Peter Storey (born 1945)English footballer
Edith Storey (1892–1967)American actress
June Storey (1918–1991)Canadian-American actress

People named Storey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Storey

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.