The 2024 Atlantic Tropical Storm Naming List

For ease of communication with the public, each tropical storm is alotted a distinctive, instantly recognisable name. The storm retains this name even when it develops into a fully fledged hurricane.

As each Atlantic tropical storm forms in 2025, it is alotted the next available name from the following list:

Should there be more than 21 Atlantic tropical storms in the 2025 season, additional names will be drawn from a reserve list.

The World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee maintains six different lists of names, which are used in rotation and thus repeat every six years. Accordingly, the 2025 list was last used in 2019.¹ To reflect the geographical spread of Atlantic and Caribbean storms, the names are drawn in a balanced manner from English, French, and Spanish. Furthermore, the names alternate by gender, and are selected to be respectful of societal sensitivities.

According to data supplied by NOAA National Hurricane Center, each season between 1991 and 2020 produced 14 named tropical storms on average. Of the tropical storms, on average 7 developed into hurricanes (tropical cyclones with sustained winds of at least 64 knots).

For details on how tropical storms are classified, see the post Tropical Cyclones vs. Hurricanes vs. Major Hurricanes