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 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