Entry № 10028 · English origin

Story Story — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ STOR-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"A tale, a narrative"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "a tale, a narrative".

Story is the English word for a narrative — from the Old French estorie, ultimately from the Greek historía (inquiry, account). Used as a name since the early 2000s.

Story entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2020.

A tale. The word, used directly.

The name in its native script.

Story
Transliteration
Story
Pronunciation
/ ˈstɔːr.i /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Story stands.

Story does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Storys before her.

Real people
Maddie Story Aldridge
Daughter of Jamie Lynn Spears.
born 2008
In fiction

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Names connected to Story.

The number behind Story.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Story reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.