The original name lists featured only womens names.

List of female hurricane names. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when mens and womens names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. Here are the hurricane names for 2021 Atlantic hurricane names season runs from June 1 to November 30 are. Jill is not on this repeating list.

The names are often recycled but if a storm is especially destructive its name is never used again. Since the 1950s there have been nearly 80 storm names retired. These two hurricanes were so deadly and damaging that the World Meteorological Organization decided that reuse of their names would be insensitive.

A hurricane name will be retired if it is too deadly or costly and becomes too inappropriate to use in future years. List 1 List 2 List 3 List 4. WMC -Today the list of hurricane names consist of both men and women names but this wasnt always the case.

Intense waves during Tropical Storm Emily near the. From roughly 1953 to 1979 US. 22 rows Hurricane names alternate in gender - male female male female etc.

They are now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. Some of these retired names are Katrina Sandy and Matthew. 1 Names 11 A 12 B 13 C 14 D 15 E 16 F 17 G 18 H 19 I 110 J 111 K 112 L 113 M 114 N 115 O 116 P 117 R 118 S 119 T 120 V 121 W 122 X 123 Y 124 Z Arlene Aaliyah Aleeya Ana Amy Allison Amber Ashley Anna Anne Amelia Alexis Alexandra.

However if you compare the names in the lists you will see that Matthew and Otto will not be reused in 2023. In 1979 mens names were added and they now alternate with womens names. Retired female hurricane names.