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Storm

This name comes from the vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the case of the Scandinavian name, from Old Norse stormr.

PronunciationAmerican English /ˈstɔɹm/; British English /ˈstɔːm/; Dutch /ˈstɔrm/
Usage languagesDanish, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish
US rank (2025)#1,436

Meaning and history

Storm is a name derived from the common vocabulary word, ultimately from Old English or Old Dutch storm, or in the Scandinavian form from Old Norse stormr. It is used as a unisex name in English, though it is typically masculine in other languages.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 41 births, rank #3,734
2007: 52 births, rank #3,247
2008: 40 births, rank #3,936
2009: 43 births, rank #3,677
2010: 33 births, rank #4,397
20112011: 37 births, rank #3,999
2012: 48 births, rank #3,364
2013: 52 births, rank #3,123
2014: 60 births, rank #2,843
2015: 76 births, rank #2,408
20162016: 85 births, rank #2,247
2017: 103 births, rank #1,943
2018: 94 births, rank #2,059
2019: 104 births, rank #1,913
2020: 125 births, rank #1,649
20212021: 140 births, rank #1,506
2022: 130 births, rank #1,621
2023: 143 births, rank #1,506
2024: 129 births, rank #1,613
20252025: 150 births, rank #1,436

Storm moved from #954 to #961 for boys between 1996 and 1997. Its highest annual birth count came in 1995, with 165 births.