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 6th, 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 name; for a list sorted by year, click here.
- Agnes (1972): Florida, Northeast U.S.
- Alicia (1983): North Texas
- Allen (1980): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
- Allison (2001): Texas
- Andrew (1992): Bahamas, South Florida, Louisiana
- Anita (1977): Mexico
- Audrey (1957): Louisiana, North Texas
- Betsy (1965): Bahamas, Southeast Florida, Southeast Louisiana
- Beulah (1967): Antilles, Mexico, South Texas
- Bob (1991): North Carolina & Northeast U.S.
- Camille (1969): Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
- Carla (1961): Texas
- Carmen (1974): Mexico, Central Louisiana
- Carol (1954): Northeast U.S.
- Celia (1970): South Texas
- Cesar (1996): Honduras
- Charley (2004): Cuba, Florida
- Cleo (1964): Lesser Antilles, Haiti, Cuba, Southeast Florida
- Connie (1955): North Carolina
- David (1979): Lesser Antilles, Hispañiola, Florida and Eastern U.S.
- Dean (2007): Yucatán Peninsula
- Dennis (2005): Cuba, Florida
- Diana (1990): Mexico
- Diane (1955): Mid-Atlantic U.S., Northeast U.S.
- Donna (1960): Bahamas, Florida, Eastern U.S.
- Dora (1964): Northeast Florida
- Edna (1954): Canada
- Elena (1985): Mississippi, Alabama, Western Florida
- Eloise (1975): Antilles, Northwest Florida, Alabama
- Fabian (2003): Bermuda
- Felix (2007): Nicaragua, Honduras
- Fifi (1974): Yucatán Peninsula, Louisiana
- Flora (1963): Haiti, Cuba
- Floyd (1999): North Carolina, Eastern seaboard
- Fran (1996): North Carolina
- Frances (2004): Florida
- Frederic (1979): Alabama, Mississippi
- Georges (1998): Greater Antilles, Florida Keys, Mississippi, Alabama
- Gilbert (1988): Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
- Gloria (1985): North Carolina, Northeast U.S.
- Gracie (1959): Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia
- Gustav (2008): Cuba, Haiti, Louisiana
- Hattie (1961): Belize, Guatemala
- Hazel (1954): Antilles, North and South Carolina
- Hilda (1964): Louisiana
- Hortense (1996): Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
- Hugo (1989): Antilles, South Carolina
- Ike (2008): Turks and Caicos, Cuba, Galveston Island
- Inez (1966): Lesser Antilles, Hispañiola, Cuba, Florida Keys, Mexico
- Ione (1955): North Carolina
- Iris (2001): Jamaica, Belize
- Isabel (2003): North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland
- Isidore (2002): Cuba, Mexico, Louisiana
- Ivan (2004): Grenada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Alabama, Florida, Texas
- Janet (1955): Lesser Antilles, Belize, Mexico
- Jeanne (2004): Haiti, Florida
- Joan (1988): Curacao, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua (crossed into the Pacific and became Miriam)
- Juan (2003): Nova Scotia
- Katrina (2005): Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida
- Keith (2000): Mexico
- Klaus (1990): Martinique
- Lenny (1999): Antilles
- Lili (2002): Cuba, Louisiana
- Luis (1995): Barbuda, St. Martin
- Marilyn (1995): Bermuda
- Michelle (2001): Honduras, Cuba, Florida Keys
- Mitch (1998): Central America, Nicaragua, Honduras
- Noel (2007): Caribbean, Barbados
- Opal (1995): Florida Panhandle
- Paloma (2008): Cuba
- Rita (2005): Louisiana, Texas, Florida
- Roxanne (1995): Yucatán Peninsula
- Stan (2005): Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador
- Wilma (2005): Cuba, Florida