Reply To: Did you have a hurricane named after you?

The first ‘modern’ weather professional to name Hurricanes/tropical storms was in Australia and named Clement Wragge
He initially used the Hebrew and Greek Alphabet to name Cyclones and Typhoons, when he ran out of letters he switched to women’s names. His rationale is explained:
For tropical cyclones he chose women’s names
Particularly the “soft dulcet names of the dusky beauties of the South Sea Islands”
Hoped to encourage Australian women to name their daughters with these “pretty, bubbling” appellations rather than ‘Susan’ or ‘Jane’
Cyclones in the Pacific are what we call Hurricanes in the Atlantic. Wragge’s system spread worldwide in the professional weather community.