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20 Names That Mean Storm
Names that mean storm include Storm (English and Scandinavian), Tempest (English), Audra (Lithuanian), Tufan (Turkish and Persian), Aella (Greek, whirlwind), and Saar-like Hebrew weather names such as Barak, meaning lightning. Thor, Raiden, and Indra all name gods of thunder in Norse, Japanese, and Hindu tradition.
Storm names channel raw weather: thunder gods, whirlwinds, monsoon rains, and lightning strikes. The Norse thundered with Thor, the Japanese honored Raiden, and Lithuanian simply named its daughters Audra, meaning storm. These are names for children expected to make some noise in the world.
- Aella FeminineGreek“whirlwind”
- Anil MasculineSanskrit“air, wind”
- Audra FeminineLithuanian“storm”
- Barak MasculineHebrew“lightning”
- Baran UnisexPersian and Kurdish“rain”
- Boreas MasculineGreek“north wind”
- Dylan MasculineWelsh“son of the sea, great tide”
- Fannar MasculineIcelandic“snowdrift”
- Gale UnisexEnglish“a strong wind”
- Indra MasculineSanskrit“the god of thunder and rain”
- Jett MasculineEnglish“jet black gemstone”
- Khione FeminineGreek“snow”
- Nami FeminineJapanese“wave”
- Raiden MasculineJapanese“thunder and lightning”
- Storm UnisexEnglish and Scandinavian“storm, tempest”
- Tempest FeminineEnglish“violent storm”
- Thor MasculineOld Norse“thunder”
- Tufan MasculineTurkish and Persian“storm, deluge”
- Varsha FeminineSanskrit“rain, the monsoon”
- Zephyr MasculineGreek“west wind”
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Questions
Audra means storm in Lithuanian, though English speakers often hear it as a variant of Audrey. Tempest is a dramatic English word name with a Shakespearean pedigree, and Aella was an Amazon warrior in Greek myth whose name means whirlwind.
Thor, the Norse god whose name literally means thunder, has ridden the Marvel wave back into use. Raiden, the Japanese thunder god, is now a top-500 boys' name in the United States, and Barak means lightning in Hebrew.
Baran is the Persian and Kurdish word for rain and is used mainly for girls in Iran and Turkey. Varsha, a Sanskrit name meaning rain or the monsoon season, is a familiar girls' name across India.
Yes. Storm has a history of genuine use in Denmark and Norway, where it began as a surname and personal byname, and it sees modern unisex use in English-speaking countries. The X-Men heroine Storm boosted its visibility for girls.