However if you compare the names in the lists you will see that Matthew and Otto will not be reused in 2023.

List of female hurricane names. Ana Bill Claudette Danny Elsa Fred Grace Henri Ida. Retired Hurricane Names Since 1954. Hurricanes and tropical storms were actually only named after women.

The only possibility of Jill being used again is if a female J name is retired. 22 rows Hurricane names alternate in gender - male female male female etc. In 1979 male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

Since the 1950s there have been nearly 80 storm names retired. Every six years the lists of names repeat. Originally hurricanes were only given female names but since the 1970s the name lists have included male names as well.

The naming of North Atlantic tropical cyclones is currently under the oversight of the Hurricane Committee of the World Meteorological Organization WMO. Originally all the names picked out for storms were female. This is a cumulative list of previously used tropical cyclone tropical storm and hurricane names which have been permanently removed from reuse in the North Atlantic region.

A hurricane name will be retired if it is too deadly or costly and becomes too inappropriate to use in future years. Intense waves during Tropical Storm Emily near the. Here are the hurricane names for 2021 Atlantic hurricane names season runs from June 1 to November 30 are.

The original name lists featured only womens names. Hurricanes have different names in different parts of the world. Whenever more than 21 hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean further storms will get their names after the Greek alphabet - Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon etc.