Storm

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Storm: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Storm: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #50, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
89times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#50highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#820
1998	#649
1999	#605
2000	#591
2001	#584
2002	#822
2003	#771
2004	#687
2005	#802
2006	#770
2007	#774
2008	#1135
2009	#932
2010	#1093
2011	#1438
2012	#1483
2013	#1324
2014	#1070
2015	#1057
2016	#994
2017	#870
2018	#826
2019	#854
2020	#749
2021	#625
2022	#638
2023	#1030
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #1036 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2025
Highest recorded position: #50 among boys in Norway, in 2024 (recorded 1997–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #79 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Storm appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 369 births with the name.

Storm across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Storm's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1458 (1996)	#718 (1999)	#2921 (2024)	29 of 29	369 (1996–2024)	24 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#584 (2001)	#1036 (2024)	29 of 29	1,067 (1996–2024)	62 (2021)
Norway · Boys	#595 (1997)	#50 (2024)	#79 (2025)	28 of 29	2,108 (1997–2025)	141 (2024)

Storm by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Storm in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000s	114	10 of 10	11
2010s	106	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	93	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Storm appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #50 in Norway in 2024.

Storm's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1030	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1207	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#638	59	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1143	24	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#625	62	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1250	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#749	49	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#854	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#826	45	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1483	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#774	42	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#770	40	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1401	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#802	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#687	42	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#771	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#822	29	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1253	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#584	46	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#591	45	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#605	43	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#718	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#649	38	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#79	89	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#50	141	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#71	102	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#65	102	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#72	91	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#61	100	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#80	96	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#77	99	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#104	68	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#73	113	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#77	113	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#89	95	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#80	110	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#79	110	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#85	105	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#89	102	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#84	99	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#102	85	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#113	72	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#121	64	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#158	41	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#175	33	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#184	32	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#211	23	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#565	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#406	8	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#443	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#595	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #50, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 16 years, 8 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 141 births, registered in Norway in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Stirling · #1024, 27y
Struan · #144, 21y
Stuart · #31, 73y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Charli · #48, 29y
Libby · #48, 29y
Callie · #47, 30y
Tia · #53, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amaia · #51, 27y
Gracie · #51, 30y
Seth · #51, 30y
Charli · #48, 29y

Storm was ranked #50 in Norway · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Storm and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Storm without appearing here.

Storm moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1991 and #3412.
Graeme Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1595 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1253 and #2636.
Brent Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #2458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2660 and #3822.
Tania Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1438 and #1327 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1483 and #2338.

Moved ahead of Storm

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #1132.
Ronny Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1243 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #1460.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #1460.
Isak Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1207 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #1517.

Moved the opposite way to Storm

Adrian Compare
Between 1997 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Storm went from #595 to #79 while Adrian went from #25 to #70.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Storm went from #1458 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alexander Compare
Between 1997 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Storm went from #595 to #79 while Alexander went from #31 to #81.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Storm went from #1458 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.

Moved the same way as Storm

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Storm went from #1458 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Storm went from #1458 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aksel Compare
Between 1997 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Storm went from #595 to #79 and Aksel from #100 to #25.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Storm went from #1458 to #2921 and Alan from #163 to #592.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #50 in Norway in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Storm

Storm at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Storm across 3 official records

Storm by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Storm appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Storm

Storm and the names beside it

Storm moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Storm

Moved the opposite way to Storm

Moved the same way as Storm

Storm at a glance

Storm across 3 official records

Storm by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Storm appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Storm

Storm and the names beside it

Storm moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Storm

Moved the opposite way to Storm

Moved the same way as Storm