# Story (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/story/  
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 | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,218 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,867 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,065 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.5% (18,935 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Storey |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Story 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) | 83% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Story in the United States.

## People named Story

- Tim Story, American film director
- Joseph Story, American jurist (1779–1845); US Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845
- William Wetmore Story, American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor (1819–1895)
- William Edward Story, American mathematician (1850–1930)
- Trevor Story, American baseball player (born 1992)
- Julian Russell Story, American painter (1857–1919)

## Similar surnames

Storey, Stroh, Star, Storie, Stoehr, Stohr, Sutor, Storr, Starr, Sutter, Suter, Sauter.

## 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.