2025 name list for Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms

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 name list

2025 hurricane names
Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dexter
Erin
Fernand
Gabrielle
Humberto
Imelda
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Nestor
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

Source: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

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.

Written by Graham Lumley

Graham Lumley is the Growth Product Manager at BKV Energy, a retail electricity provider in Texas' deregulated market, where he has worked since 2023. He analyzes customer usage and billing data, helps develop BKV's fixed-rate plans, and creates tools to simplify Texas electricity shopping. He has written over 200 articles on Texas electricity rates, delivery charges, plan types, energy generation, and more to help Texans understand their bills and pay less. With over 10 years of experience in consumer products, marketing, and energy, he explains the Texas electricity market in plain language.