# Storey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/storey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 13,669 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,635 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 22,587 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (13,450 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. Even though it has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”, R.E.K. Rigbeye, in his book The Storey’s of Old claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”. According to him, “Storr” also denotes large in the sense of vast and rough.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Storey in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 10% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Storey in the United States.

## People named Storey

- Edith Storey, American actress (1892–1967)

## Similar surnames

Story, Storie, Stoehr, Stohr, Sutor, Storr, Stayer, Starr, Sutter, Suter, Sauter, Stroh.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.