The complete list of names for the 2025 hurricane season has been released
< 1 minute read • Last update March 2025
The 2025 hurricane season, starting June 1, is rapidly approaching. The National Hurricane Center has already prepared the hurricane names for the 2025 season.
| 2025 hurricane names |
|---|
| Andrea |
| Barry |
| Chantal |
| Dexter |
| Erin |
| Fernand |
| Gabrielle |
| Humberto |
| Imelda |
| Jerry |
| Karen |
| Lorenzo |
| Melissa |
| Nestor |
| Olga |
| Pablo |
| Rebekah |
| Sebastien |
| Tanya |
| Van |
| Wendy |
Ever wonder how hurricanes get their names? The National Hurricane Center, using lists maintained by the World Meteorological Organization, assigns names to tropical storms and hurricanes from a rotating set of six lists. Each list has 21 names, alternating between male and female, and gets reused every six years—so the names from 2025 will be back in 2031.
The goal is to keep names short and easy to recognize, which helps avoid confusion in weather reports, emergency alerts, and even communication between coastal bases and ships. That’s also why you won’t see names starting with Q, U, X, Y, or Z—there just aren’t enough widely recognized names that start with those letters.
This system is especially important when multiple storms are active at the same time. It helps people track storms more easily and understand which one might be heading their way.
And if you’re wondering—yes, hurricanes and typhoons happen outside the Atlantic too. Different regions, like the eastern and central Pacific, have their own lists of storm names. So no matter where a storm forms, it has a name ready to go.
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