As of the start of the 2009 hurricane season, 74 storm names have been retired (starting in 1953 when the list was made up exclusively of female names). NOTE: Many news organizations ran a widely published Associated Press story on April 6^th, 2006 regarding retired names of storms. The AP story referred to 67 names being retired- that number is wrong (or at least the AP did not explain itself well): the correct amount is 68 (the missing storm is Gracie of 1959). Follow this WeatherUnderground.com link for a full list of retired names (and note there is some dispute about whether or not the name Gracie was retired):

This list is sorted by year; for a list sorted by name, click here.

1954   Carol:              Northeast U.S.

            Edna:              Canada

Hazel:             Antilles, North and South Carolina

1955   Connie:           North Carolina

Diane:             Mid-Atlantic U.S., Northeast U.S.

            Ione:               North Carolina

Janet:             Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico

1957   Audrey:           Louisiana, North Texas

1959   Gracie:            Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia

1960   Donna:            Bahamas, Florida, Eastern U.S.

1961    Carla:              Texas 

Hattie:            Belize, Guatemala

1963    Flora:             Haiti, Cuba

1964    Cleo:              Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, Southeast Florida

            Dora:              Northeast Florida

            Hilda:             Louisiana

1965   Betsy:              Bahamas, Southeast Florida, Southeast Louisiana

1966   Inez:                Lesser Antilles, Hispañiola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico

1967   Beulah:           Antilles, Mexico, South Texas

1969   Camille:          Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

1970   Celia:               South Texas

1972   Agnes:             Florida, Northeast U.S.

1974   Carmen:         Mexico, Central Louisiana

           Fifi:                  Yucatán Peninsula, Louisiana

1975   Eloise:             Antilles, Northwest Florida, Alabama

1977   Anita:              Mexico

1979   David:             Lesser Antilles, Hispañiola, Florida and Eastern U.S. 

Frederic:        Alabama, Mississippi

1980  Allen:             Antilles, Mexico, South Texas

1983   Alicia:             North Texas

1985   Elena:             Mississippi, Alabama, Western Florida

Gloria:            North Carolina, Northeast U.S.

1988   Gilbert:          Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico 

Joan:              Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua (Crossed into the Pacific and became Miriam)

1989   Hugo:             Antilles, South Carolina

1990   Diana:            Mexico

Klaus:            Martinique

1991   Bob:                North Carolina & Northeast U.S.

1992   Andrew:        Bahamas, South Florida, Louisiana

1995   Luis:               Barbuda, St. Martin

Marilyn:        Bermuda

Opal:              Florida Panhandle

Roxanne:       Yucatán Peninsula

1996   Cesar:             Honduras

            Fran:              North Carolina

Hortense:      Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

1998   Georges:        Greater Antilles, Florida Keys, Mississippi, Alabama

Mitch:            Central America, Nicaragua, Honduras

1999   Floyd:             North Carolina, eastern seaboard

Lenny:           Antilles

2000   Keith:            Mexico

2001   Allison:          Texas 

Iris:                Jamaica, Belize

Michelle:       Honduras, Cuba, Florida Keys

2002  Isidore:           Cuba, Mexico, Louisiana

Lili:                 Cuba, Louisiana

2003   Fabian:          Bermuda 

Isabel:            North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland

Juan:              Nova Scotia

2004   Charley:         Cuba, Florida 

Frances:         Florida

Ivan:               Grenada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Alabama, Florida, Texas

Jeanne:          Haiti, Florida

2005   Dennis:          Cuba, Florida

Katrina:         Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida 

Rita:               Louisiana, Texas, Florida

Stan:              Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador

Wilma:           Cuba, Florida

2007   Dean:             Yucatán Peninsula 

Felix:             Nicaragua, Honduras 

            Noel:              Caribbean, Barbados

2008   Gustav:          Cuba, Haiti, Louisiana

            Ike:                 Turks and Caicos, Cuba, Galveston Island

            Paloma:          Cuba