Story

18,276 people in the United States were counted with the surname Story in the 2020 census, making it the 1,932nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,400.

By the numbers

People: 18,276
Rank: 1,932nd
How common: 1 in 16,400
Per 100,000: 6.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 11.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Story

Tim Story (born 1970)American film director
Joseph Story (1779–1845)American jurist (1779–1845); US Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845
William Wetmore Story (1819–1895)American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor
William Edward Story (1850–1930)American mathematician
Trevor Story (born 1992)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Story

Also a first name

Story has been given to 2,048 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.