Boy names that mean storm
A storm is a whole weather system, and the names for it are correspondingly rare — far rarer than lists that pad themselves with anything sounding turbulent would suggest. Here the centre of gravity is the tempest itself and the gods held responsible for it. Thunder alone has its own page.
- StormSTORMDanish
Storm. A medieval Scandinavian byname for a man of violent temper, now a given name in its own right across Denmark and Norway.
- Ekaitzeh-KYTSBasque
Storm, tempest — the plain modern Basque noun, part of the wave of vocabulary names that followed Franco.
- Boraboh-RAHTurkish
Squall; the hard north wind that comes off the water with no warning. The same word names the Adriatic's most feared wind.
- SetiSET-eeAncient Egyptian
He of Set — the god of storm, the desert and disorder. Two pharaohs of the Nineteenth Dynasty carried it.
- UkkoOOK-koFinnish
The Finnish sky god, whose name gave the language its ordinary word for a thunderstorm, ukkonen.
- ThorTHORNorse
Thunder, literally. Thor drives the storm from a goat-drawn chariot, and the noise is the wheels.
- Vahagnvah-HAHKNArmenian
The old Armenian god of fire and storm. The name itself is Iranian and means the smiting of resistance — the weather comes from the deity, not the etymology.
- ShantSHAHNTArmenian
Lightning, a bolt or flash, and still the ordinary Armenian word for it.
- KidlatKEED-lahtTagalog
Lightning — the loudest of the Filipino vocabulary names, alongside Alon for a wave and Bayani for a hero.
- SverreSVER-rehNorwegian
From sverra, to swing, whirl or spin; traditionally read as wild or restless. Turbulence as a temperament.
- NagiNAH-gheeJapanese
凪, the character for wind with “stop” written inside it: the flat calm at sea after the wind drops.
The tempest, the god, and the bolt
The weather itself. Storm and Ekaitz are the two unarguable ones — ordinary nouns in Danish and Basque, used without alteration. Bora narrows it to a specific wind, the kind sailors on the Adriatic still plan around. Nagi is on the list as the storm's other end: the moment the sea goes flat.
Whoever sends it. Four cultures on this page personified bad weather and then named children after the result. Ukko is the clearest case, because Finnish still calls a thunderstorm by his name. Thor and Vahagn are gods of the storm-sky, and Seti belongs to Set, whom Egyptians blamed for the desert wind and for disorder generally.
Lightning, and temper. Kidlat and Shant name the flash rather than the system, which makes them the sharpest-sounding options here. Sverre is a different thing again — a byname for a person who behaves like weather. If it is the sound you want rather than the front, thunder has the Norse compounds; for moving air on its own, see wind.