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
Grammatical form

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

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.