Story Names for Boys

There are 12 Story names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Story names 1 to 12. Anthony was the most popular among these names in 2007. The name is primarily used in English, and it was followed in popularity by the English Eric, Jonah, the Frisian, Dutch, Finnish, German, Scandinavian, and Welsh Kai, the German Hugo, the English, French, and German Roland, the English and German Conrad, and lastly the English and German name, Samson. The unusual Story names are Günther (German), Leander (German), Paris (English), and Sigmund (English and German).

Story names are fairly popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1900s up to the 1970s; prior to that, they were of only occasional use. At the height of their usage in 1972, 2.432% of baby boys were given Story names. There were 7 Story names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Story names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2007, 8 Story names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.400%. Within all Story names, the English Anthony was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #7 and a usage of 0.8859%.

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Anthony 7 ... story is well-known from the Shakespeare tragedy ...

Conrad 815 ... bold counsel ... in Saki's short story Sredni Vashtar (1900 ...

Eric 83 ... lone ruler ... Frederic William Farrar story on school life, 'Eric, ...

Günther ... fight; army, warrior ... 5th century, whose story was also told in the ...

Hugo 398 ... heart, mind, spirit ... story was retold by Geoffrey Chaucer in The ...

Jonah 165 ... dove ... biblical story was very popular in medieval times, ...

Kai 254 ... hen, chicken; sea; brave with the spear ... Christian Andersen's story The Snow Queen (1845), ...

Leander ... strong brave man, man ... priestess Hero; their story is told in the 'Hero ...

Paris ... the city of Troy; the story is famous from Homer's ...

Roland 745 ... famous landowner ... of Charlemagne, whose story was immortalized in the ...

Samson 897 ... sun child, little sun ... story was later popularized as the subject of ...

Sigmund ... victorious defender ... the heroic Sigmund; his story was recorded in the ...