storm names alternate between male and female and go down the alphabet through a list of 10,000 names submitted for consideration by the public.  storms named after women don't kill more than those with male names  note: this headline and article have been significantly edited after publication to reflect that claims have been debunked of more deaths in storms named after women.  in the wake of storm eunice, questions are being asked as to how storms get their names.  it was previously suggested storms with female names were more deadly - but subsequent research has debunked the theory.  british, irish and dutch weather services group together to name storms and the final decision is taken by weather officials, who looked at a list of 10,000 names submitted for consideration by the public.  they go down the alphabet alternating between male and female names.  it was previously claimed you were more likely to die in a storm with a female name..  a 2014 study of american hurricanes, published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences, concluded that the practice of naming storms "taps into well-developed and widely held gender stereotypes, with potentially deadly consequences".  researchers at the university of illinois and arizona state university claimed their studies found we're more likely to assume that storms with female names will be less dangerous.  in turn, they suggested this meant that people are less likely to take precautions to protect themselves and therefore the death toll is likely to be higher.  they said their model also suggested that changing a hurricane's name from charley to eloise could nearly triple the number of fatalities.  however, a subsequent research paper in 2016, published in journal weather and climate extremes, found there was no difference in the death tolls.  they found several flaws, such as the original paper including storms between 1953 and 1978 when deaths rolls were higher and all storms had female names.  the authors of the later publication concluded: "the assertion that female-named storms are deadlier than male-named storms is not robust, evidently because it relied on the questionable statistical analysis of a narrowly defined set of data."
storms named after women don't kill more than those with male names