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Storey

Girl · STOR-ee · English

Storey is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “big, great”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).

What does Storey mean?

English: English surname, from Old Norse Stórr 'big'; also suggests story

“big, great”

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Is Storey a girl's or a boy's name?

Storey is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Storey in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,837among girls
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 100,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Storey, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. It first appears in the records in 1987.

2025 had the most girls named Storey of any year since it first appeared, in 1987.

Half of all the girls named Storey in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 360 girls in the US were given Storey or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #755, up from #6,837 for this spelling alone.

1987Busiest: 16 in 20252025
Storey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202516#6,837
202410#9,551
20236#13,456
20226#13,586
202110#9,557
202011#8,948
20196#13,793
201812#8,612
201715#7,438
20169#10,855
20150–
20147#13,063
201315#7,744
20120–
201113#8,610
201012#9,227
200914#8,450
200811#10,080
20078#12,671
200610#10,606
20056#14,495
20040–
20030–
20028#11,102
20016#13,514
20000–
19990–
19989#9,254
19975#13,719
19966#11,801
19950–
19946#11,771
19935#13,435
19920–
19915#13,139
19908#9,241
19899#8,031
19887#9,239
19875#11,320

Names like Storey

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Storey

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