Entry № 2299 · English origin

Storm Storm — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ STORM /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Tempest (Storm Reid; X-Men's Ororo Munroe)"
Syllables
1
Rank · US 2025
№ 0
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "tempest (storm reid; x-men's ororo munroe)".

Storm is from the Old English storm (tempest) — a 20th-century weather-name in the lineage of Summer, Rain, Skye, and Winter. **Originally a unisex name; the major namesake for girls is the X-Men character Ororo Munroe / Storm, the weather-controlling Kenyan-American mutant princess who has appeared in Marvel comics since 1975 — created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum**. **Storm Reid (born 2003)** — **American actress; star of Ava DuVernay's *A Wrinkle in Time* (2018) at age 14; *Euphoria* (2019-present), *The Last of Us* (2023), *The Suicide Squad* (2021)**. **Halle Berry portrayed Storm in *X-Men* (2000), *X2* (2003), *X-Men: The Last Stand* (2006), *X-Men: Days of Future Past* (2014); Alexandra Shipp in subsequent films**. **Storm is also the nickname of Sebastian Stan's character in *Phantom Limb* (2019)**. **Storm is the name of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's nephew Saint's cat**. **A top-1000 US baby name for girls since 2018**.

Featured throughout Marvel Cinematic Universe canon.

Tempest. Ororo Munroe in 50 years of X-Men comics; Storm Reid in The Last of Us and Euphoria.

The name in its native script.

Storm
Transliteration
Storm
Pronunciation
/ stɔːrm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Storm stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 0 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 0 in 0
Babies named Storm · last year
105 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
0
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · — NOW · —

Storms before her.

Real people
Storm Reid
American actress.
born 2003
In fiction
Storm
Marvel's X-Men.
1975

Names connected to Storm.

The number behind Storm.

1

The Pioneer

Storm reduces to one — the number of weather-controller.

Why families chose this name.

"Munroe's tempest. Five letters. Storm."
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