Some parents choose a name for the sound of it. Others want a meaning that says something about the day their child arrived, or about the person they hope that child grows into.
Weather names do both jobs at once. The 100 names below all mean wind, sky, or storm, gathered from Greek and Norse myth and from Basque, Finnish, Swahili, Tagalog, Sotho, and Sanskrit. Each one comes with its origin and its meaning, and most also carry a plain guide to saying it out loud.
Fifty are listed for boys and fifty for girls, though a good number of them cross over without any trouble.
Popularity at a Glance
The most popular names on this list in the United States, 1965 to 2025: Iris, Abel, Kailani, Skye and Samir.
50 Boys Names That Mean Wind, Sky, Or Storm
Fifty names for boys, pulled from Norse thunder gods, Sumerian wind lords, and the ordinary weather words of Finnish, Estonian, Swahili, and Breton. Each entry lists the origin and the meaning, and most add a guide to saying it.
1. Abel
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Breath
- Pronunciation: AY-bul
- Variations: Abele, Aapeli, Hevel
- Popularity: #231 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (1,525 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 43% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Abel comes from the Hebrew name Hevel, meaning breath, which is exactly what earns it a spot on a list of wind names. Breath and wind share one idea in a lot of old cosmologies: moving air that keeps a body, or a world, alive.
In the Old Testament, Abel is the second son of Adam and Eve, killed by his brother Cain out of envy. The name reached England during the Middle Ages and was common in the Puritan era, which is part of why it still reads as steady rather than showy.
It is also the most usable name here. Abel ranked #231 in the United States in 2025, so your son will meet a few others without ever being one of five in a classroom.
2. Aeolus
- Origin: Greek mythology, Latinized
- Meaning: From Aiolos, traditionally read as quick moving or nimble
- Pronunciation: ee-OH-lus or EE-uh-lus
- Variations: Aiolos
Aeolus is the Latin spelling of the Greek Aiolos, keeper of the winds. In the Odyssey he hands Odysseus a bag holding every wind except the one that will blow him home, and the crew opens it anyway.
The name is usually read as quick moving or nimble, which suits a baby who arrives early and never sits still. Aeolian, as in aeolian harp and aeolian erosion, comes from the same root, so the wind sense survived in English long after the myth stopped being told.
3. Akash
- Origin: Sanskrit, used in Hindi, Marathi, and Bengali
- Meaning: Open space, sky
- Pronunciation: ah-KAHSH
- Variations: Aakash, Akaash
An Indian name taken straight from Sanskrit akasha, Akash means open space or sky.
In several branches of Hindu thought, akasha is the first element created and the space in which everything else exists. That gives the name real philosophical weight without making it heavy to say.
It is common enough across India to be recognized on sight and rare enough in the United States to stand out. Ah-KAHSH survives an American accent intact, which is not true of every name on this list.
4. Amphorn
- Origin: Thai
- Meaning: Sky
Amphorn is a Thai name that means sky.
You can see the word in Thai royal architecture. Phra Thinang Amphorn Sathan, one of the residences inside the Dusit Palace compound in Bangkok, translates roughly as the royal seat in the sky, and it was home to a former king.
Outside Thailand it is close to unknown, so expect to spell it out more than once.
5. Amun
- Origin: Egyptian mythology, anglicized
- Meaning: Hidden
- Pronunciation: AH-mun
- Variations: Amon, Amen, Ammon, Yamanu
Amun is the anglicized form of Amon, one of the great gods of ancient Egypt, and the name means hidden.
He started as a local god of Thebes and ended up merged with the sun god as Amun-Ra, credited with creating everything and tied to the air and the wind. The hidden part of the meaning is the whole point: a force you feel rather than watch.
Amunet is the feminine form. Two syllables, no silent letters, nothing to explain at the doctor office.
6. Anan
- Origin: Hebrew, also used among the Akan of West Africa
- Meaning: Cloud in Hebrew, fourth-born child in Akan
Anan is a Hebrew name meaning cloud, short enough to sit easily beside a long surname.
The same spelling turns up among the Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast, where it marks a fourth-born child. Two unrelated languages, one tidy four-letter name, and a good piece of trivia to hand your son when he is old enough to enjoy it.
7. Anil
- Origin: Sanskrit, used across India and Nepal
- Meaning: Air, wind
- Pronunciation: uh-NEEL
- Variations: Anila, the feminine form
Anil comes from Sanskrit anila, meaning air or wind, and in Hindu tradition Anila is a god of wind.
The anil plant, Indigofera suffruticosa, carries the same word. It is a source of indigo dye and was used by Mesoamerican civilizations to make Maya blue pigment, so the name has a second life in a paint box.
It is used by Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Nepali speaking families, which makes it one of the most portable choices in this section.
8. Anore
- Origin: Greenlandic
- Meaning: Wind
A name from Greenland, Anore means wind.
It is a modern spelling of Anori, which carries the same sense. The soft ending keeps it from sounding severe, and it works well as a middle name for a family that wants a nod to the Arctic without a mouthful.
9. Arkansas
- Origin: Algonquian, by way of French
- Meaning: South wind, as applied to the Quapaw
Arkansas grew out of an Algonquian term connected to the south wind.
Algonquian speakers in the Ohio Valley used it when referring to the Quapaw. French traders in the area wrote it down as Arcansas, the spelling drifted, and the silent final s we still use is a leftover of that French spelling.
As a first name it is a big swing. As a middle name for a family with roots in the state, it is far more wearable.
10. Avel
- Origin: Breton
- Meaning: Wind
In Breton, avel means wind.
Breton speakers do not generally treat the name as the word used directly. They read Avel as the local form of the Hebrew name Abel, which puts it in interesting company with the first entry in this section.
11. Barak
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Lightning
- Pronunciation: bah-RAHK in Hebrew, BAR-uk in English
Barak is a Hebrew name that means lightning.
In the Old Testament he is a military commander who fights under the guidance of the prophetess Deborah, and together they defeat the Canaanite army led by Sisera.
Watch the spelling. Barak and Barack are separate names with separate histories, and the one that means lightning is the single-c version.
12. Baran
- Origin: Persian, also used in Turkish and Kurdish
- Meaning: Rain
- Pronunciation: bah-RAHN
Baran means rain in Persian, and it travels comfortably into Turkish and Kurdish families.
Gender follows the language here. It is typically a girls name among Persian speakers and a Turkish boys name, so it is worth knowing which reading the relatives on each side will hear first.
For a baby born in a downpour, it is hard to beat.
13. Brontes
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Thunderer
- Pronunciation: BRON-teez
Brontes means thunderer in Greek.
In Hesiod telling, he is one of three Cyclopes, sons of Uranus and Gaia, and the brothers who forge Zeus his thunderbolt. Brontosaurus, the thunder lizard, borrows the same root, which hands a small child a very good story about his own name.
14. Caelus
- Origin: Roman mythology, from Latin
- Meaning: Sky, heaven
- Pronunciation: KYE-lus in classical Latin, SEE-lus in English
Caelus is a Roman name meaning sky.
It is linked to the Latin caelum, meaning sky, heaven, or the home of the gods, and it sits behind the English word celestial. Celestine below, and Cielo and Ciela in the girls section, all trace back to that same word.
Classical Latin gives KYE-lus. Most English speakers land on SEE-lus, and either is defensible as long as your family agrees.
15. Celestine
- Origin: English, from the Late Latin Caelestinus
- Meaning: Of the sky, heavenly
- Pronunciation: SEL-uh-steen
- Variations: Celestin, Celestina, Celestino
- Popularity: #3,219 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (49 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 98% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Celestine is an English boy name that means of the sky, from the Late Latin Caelestinus.
It is used more often for girls now, through the French Celestine, so it reads as soft rather than strictly masculine. Several popes carried it, which gives it a long paper trail and a formal edge.
Celestine is also another word for the mineral celestite. The largest known geode in the world is a celestite geode about 35 feet across on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, with individual crystals up to three feet wide.
16. Corentin
- Origin: Breton and French
- Meaning: Possibly hurricane or storm
- Pronunciation: ko-rahn-TAN
- Variations: Kaourintin
Corentin is the French form of the Breton name Kaourintin, usually traced to korventenn, meaning hurricane or storm. An alternative reading connects it to a Brythonic root meaning love, so the sources are not unanimous.
A fifth-century bishop of Quimper in Brittany carried the name, and his feast day is December 12. That history is why it never left France, where it has been in steady use since the 1990s.
In the United States it sits outside the top 1000, so an American Corentin will be the only one at school.
17. Enlil
- Origin: Sumerian mythology
- Meaning: Lord of the wind
- Pronunciation: EN-lil
- Variations: Elil, Ellil
An ancient Sumerian name, Enlil combines en, meaning lord, with lil, most often read as wind.
He was the Sumerian god of wind and storms, son of An and Ki, and he was still worshipped by Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians long after Sumer itself faded. In cuneiform his name is written 𒀭𒂗𒆤.
Two even syllables, no tricky sounds, and about as old as a written name can be.
18. Erjon
- Origin: Albanian
- Meaning: Our wind, or wind of the Ionian Sea
- Variations: Erion, and the feminine Erjona
Erjon is an Albanian name built from ere, meaning wind, and jone, meaning our.
A second reading ties the ending to Jon, the Ionian Sea, which would make it the wind off that particular water. Both readings are current, and Albanian families use Erion as the alternative spelling.
19. Esen
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: The wind
- Pronunciation: eh-SEN
Esen means the wind in Turkish, and Turkish families give it to boys and girls alike.
It is one of the easiest names in this section for an English speaker: two syllables, four letters, nothing to spell out. For a baby who arrived in a hurry, the meaning does the work for you.
20. Gökcan
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Vast sky
Gökcan is a modern Turkish name that means vast sky.
The o with an umlaut is a rounded vowel with no exact English match, closer to the sound in her than the one in go. That, plus a name well outside the US top 1000, means it will need coaching outside Turkish speaking circles.
21. Guntur
- Origin: Indonesian
- Meaning: Thunder
- Pronunciation: GOON-toor
Guntur means thunder in Indonesian.
Mount Guntur is an active volcano in the West Java province, one of a chain of overlapping stratovolcanoes, and its last recorded eruption was in 1847. A name that means thunder attached to a mountain that used to shake makes for a solid origin story.
22. Keanu
- Origin: Hawaiian
- Meaning: The cool breeze
- Pronunciation: keh-AH-noo
- Namesakes: Keanu Reeves, actor
- Popularity: #649 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (427 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 192% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Keanu is a Hawaiian name built from ke, a definite article, and anu, meaning coolness, so the whole thing reads as the cool breeze.
Keanu Reeves, born in 1964, is why most people outside Hawaii know it. The name has had two American runs because of him, one through the 1990s and another since the mid 2010s.
It ranked #648 in 2025, which is the sweet spot a lot of parents are after: recognizable, easy to say, still uncommon.
23. Matuu
- Origin: Polynesian
- Meaning: Uncertain, borne by the god of the north wind
Matuu is a Polynesian name whose meaning has never been pinned down.
The story attached to it does the work instead. As god of the north wind, Matuu was the second wind brought under control by the folk hero and trickster Maui. If you want a wind name with a legend in it rather than a dictionary entry, this is it.
24. Mellan
- Origin: Irish
- Meaning: Traditionally read as lightning
- Pronunciation: MEL-un
- Variations: Meallán
Mellan is the anglicized form of an Irish Gaelic name, Meallán, and it is traditionally read as lightning.
The two spellings do not sound alike. Mellan is MEL-un, while Meallán runs closer to MEL-awn, so choose the version you actually want shouted across a playground.
25. Meriwether
- Origin: English, from a Middle English surname
- Meaning: Happy weather
- Pronunciation: MER-ih-weth-ur
- Namesakes: Meriwether Lewis, explorer, 1774 to 1809
Meriwether began as a Middle English surname meaning happy weather, given first to someone with a cheerful disposition who seemed to bring good weather along.
Meriwether Lewis, who led the Corps of Discovery west with William Clark, is the bearer everyone knows. The nickname Merry comes free with the name, which softens four syllables considerably.
Pair it with a short middle name. Meriwether plus anything long is a lot to write on a form.
26. Moe
- Origin: Burmese
- Meaning: Rain, sky
- Pronunciation: MOH
A Burmese name, Moe means rain or sky.
It is a separate name from the English Moe, which is a short form of Maurice or Morris. Same three letters, unrelated histories, so say which one you mean when you introduce him.
27. Myrsky
- Origin: Finnish
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: MEER-skee
Myrsky is a Finnish name and, more precisely than older lists suggest, it means storm rather than sky. Finnish weather usage puts a myrsky at wind speeds of roughly 48 to 72 mph, so it is a real storm, not a breezy afternoon.
The VL Myrsky was a Finnish-built World War II fighter flown by the Finnish Air Force, which is where a lot of people first meet the word.
The Finnish y is a rounded vowel closer to the French u than to anything in English. Most families outside Finland settle on MEER-skee and get on with their lives.
28. Naseem
- Origin: Arabic and Urdu
- Meaning: Breeze
- Pronunciation: nah-SEEM
- Variations: Nasim, Nassim, Nesim
Naseem is an Arabic name that means breeze, and it is an alternate transcription of the same name written Nasim.
It is used for boys and girls, and the spelling shifts with the language. Turkish families often write Nesim, while Nassim is standard in French transliteration, so all three are the same name wearing different clothes.
29. Neifion
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: The Welsh form of Neptune
- Pronunciation: NAY-vyon
Neifion is a Welsh name and it is the Welsh form of Neptune.
Many Welsh names belong to Wales alone, but this one is a local take on a Roman god, which is why older lists gloss it as moist, wet, clouds. It is a sea and sky name at the same time.
Welsh f sounds like an English v, so it lands as NAY-vyon with no f anywhere in it.
30. Neil
- Origin: Irish, Scottish, and English
- Meaning: Disputed, possibly champion or cloud
- Pronunciation: NEEL
- Variations: Niall, Neal, Njáll
- Namesakes: Neil Armstrong, astronaut
- Popularity: #851 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (288 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, up 6% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Neil is the English form of the Gaelic name Niall, and the meaning has never been settled. Scholars have offered an old Celtic root meaning fury or passion, an Old Irish word for hero, and Old Irish nel, meaning cloud, which is the reading that earns it a place here.
Niall of the Nine Hostages, a semi-legendary high king of the fourth or fifth century, is the earliest famous bearer. Norse settlers carried it home to Scandinavia as Njall, and the Normans brought it into England.
There is a pleasing symmetry in a possible cloud name belonging to Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. The name ranked #850 in the United States in 2025.
31. Neven
- Origin: Breton, and separately Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian
- Meaning: Marigold in the Slavic languages, and traditionally read as sky in Breton
- Pronunciation: NEH-ven
- Variations: Nevena, Nevenka, the feminine forms
Neven is traditionally read in Breton as sky, and the identical spelling is a well-used name across Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia, where it means marigold.
That double life makes it a weather name and a rare flower name for a boy at once. In Croatia the name day falls on January 11, and the feminine forms Nevena and Nevenka are common across the region.
32. Nigel
- Origin: English, from the medieval Latin Nigellus
- Meaning: Cloud, by way of Neil
- Pronunciation: NY-jul
- Variations: Nigella, the feminine form
- Popularity: #2,088 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (71 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Falling in the United States, down 51% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Nigel comes from Nigellus, a medieval Latin form of Neil, so the disputed cloud meaning travels with it.
Plenty of sources give the meaning as black, and that is a scribal accident. Medieval clerks saw Nigellus, assumed a link to the Latin niger, and the mistake outlived all of them.
Walter Scott helped revive it with his 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel. It currently sits outside the US top 1000, which makes it read as British rather than dated.
33. Notus
- Origin: Greek mythology, Latinized
- Meaning: South wind
- Pronunciation: NO-tus
- Variations: Notos
Notus is the Latin form of the Greek Notos, meaning south wind.
He is the god of the wind that brought wet storms in late summer and early winter, brother to Zephyr, Boreas, and Eurus. Of the four wind gods, Notus and Zephyr are the two that genuinely work as names.
34. Payne
- Origin: Mapudungun, the Mapuche language of Chile and Argentina
- Meaning: Sky blue
- Pronunciation: PIE-nee in Mapudungun, PAYN in English
In Mapudungun, Payne means sky blue.
English speakers will read it as the surname Payne and say PAYN. Mapudungun is closer to PIE-nee, so this is a name where you pick the pronunciation your family will use and then hold the line on it.
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park in Alachua County, Florida, is a 21,000 acre savanna and a National Natural Landmark, which is the association most Americans already have.
35. Perun
- Origin: Slavic mythology
- Meaning: Thunder
- Pronunciation: PEH-roon
A name from Slavic mythology, Perun comes from Old Slavic perunu, meaning thunder.
He was the god of lightning and the sky and, in a good many tellings, the supreme god outright. Oak trees were sacred to him, which is why old oaks keep turning up in Slavic folk stories about lightning strikes.
The stress lands on the first syllable, PEH-roon, which is the part English speakers most often get backwards.
36. Phirun
- Origin: Khmer
- Meaning: Rain
Phirun is the Khmer form of Varuna, the Hindu god of water, sky, and cosmic order, and it is read as rain.
The family behind it stretches across the region: Varun in Hindi and Punjabi, Barun in Bengali, Varuna in Sanskrit. A Cambodian family gets a name with a long shared history and a very short spelling.
37. Samir
- Origin: Indian, and separately Arabic
- Meaning: Wind, air in the Indian reading
- Pronunciation: sah-MEER
- Variations: Sameer
- Popularity: #643 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (434 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 54% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Samir is an Indian name meaning wind or air.
The identical spelling is also an Arabic name, from the root samara, meaning to talk in the evening, so it reads there as companion in evening talk. Two languages, one spelling, two meanings that have nothing to do with each other.
It ranked #643 in the United States in 2025. Known without being common, and it works in a lot of accents.
38. Sepher
- Origin: Persian
- Meaning: Sky
Sepher is a Persian name that means sky.
You will also see it written Sepehr, which is the more usual transliteration of the same Persian word. If you want Persian speaking relatives to recognize it on a birth announcement, that is the safer spelling.
39. Shu
- Origin: Egyptian mythology
- Meaning: Emptiness, or he who rises up
- Pronunciation: SHOO
Shu is an Egyptian name meaning emptiness or he who rises up.
The god Shu was air itself. He held the sky apart from the earth, was associated with dry warm air, and was treated as a calming influence on the world, which is a lot of meaning packed into three letters.
40. Sky
- Origin: English, from Old Norse
- Meaning: Sky
- Pronunciation: SKY
- Variations: Skye
- Popularity: #949 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (272 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 29% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Sky is the English word used straight as a name, and English took it from the Old Norse sky, meaning cloud.
The same Norse family gives us skuggi, meaning shadow, and the Gothic skuggwa, meaning mirror. A word that once carried cloud, shadow, and reflection at once has more underneath it than a one-syllable name usually does.
It works for boys and girls. On the boys side it sits outside the US top 1000, so it still reads as a deliberate choice rather than a trend.
41. Stormur
- Origin: Icelandic, from Old Norse stormr
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: STOR-mur
Stormur is the Icelandic word for storm, from Old Norse stormr, and Icelandic families use it as a given name.
Iceland keeps unusually careful naming records. The earliest documented Stormur there dates to 1955, and since then about 35 boys have carried it as a first name and 53 as a middle name.
For English speakers it is the quieter way to name a child Storm.
42. Sturm
- Origin: German
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: SHTOORM in German; in English it rhymes with term
Sturm is German for storm, from Old High German sturm.
It is also a premium skincare label and a reasonably common German surname, ranked 3832nd in the United States in the 2010 census. Neither is a reason to rule it out, but both are worth knowing before the birth announcement goes out.
43. Styrmir
- Origin: Old Norse and Icelandic
- Meaning: To storm, to blow hard
- Pronunciation: STIR-mir
Styrmir comes from the Old Norse verb styrma, meaning to storm or to blow hard.
The related noun stormr sits behind Storm in Danish, Dutch, English, and Norwegian, which makes Styrmir the older and rougher cousin of a name plenty of people already use. It suits a child who does not make weather so much as arrive with it.
44. Thor
- Origin: Old Norse
- Meaning: Thunder
- Pronunciation: THOR
- Variations: Tor, Þórr
- Popularity: #2,875 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (44 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, down 9% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Thor comes from the Old Norse Þórr, meaning thunder, and further back from Proto-Germanic thunraz.
In Norse myth he is the god of storms, thunder, war, and strength, a son of Odin, red-bearded and short-tempered, armed with the hammer Mjolnir and a belt that doubles his strength. At Ragnarok it is foretold that he kills the sea serpent Jormungandr and then dies of its venom.
The films have not actually made it common in America. Thor sits outside the US top 1000 while staying in ordinary use in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
45. Torm
- Origin: Estonian
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: TORM
A rare Estonian name, Torm means storm. Estonian borrowed the word from Middle Low German, so it is a close relative of the German Sturm a few entries up.
Dungeons and Dragons players may know Torm as a deity of the Forgotten Realms setting, which is either a bonus or a wrinkle depending on your table.
46. Tufani
- Origin: Swahili, borrowed from Arabic
- Meaning: Storm, tempest
- Pronunciation: too-FAH-nee
Tufani means storm in Swahili, taken from the Arabic tufan.
Nearly every storm name in circulation comes from a cold northern place, so an East African option is a genuine alternative rather than a variation on the same theme. It is also easy to say on the first attempt, which is more than several entries here can claim.
47. Van
- Origin: Chin-Burmese, and separately English
- Meaning: Heaven, sky
- Pronunciation: VAN
- Namesakes: Van Morrison, singer and songwriter
- Popularity: #972 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (236 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, up 3% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Van is a Chin-Burmese name that means heaven or sky.
In Vietnam the related spelling is unisex and means cloud. In English it usually works as a short form of names containing van, such as Vance or Ivan, which is how Van Morrison came by his.
It ranked #970 in the United States in 2025, so a three-letter name that sounds like a nickname is quietly holding its place on the charts.
48. Zenith
- Origin: English, from Arabic by way of Old French
- Meaning: The point in the sky directly overhead
- Pronunciation: ZEE-nith
In English, zenith is the point in the sky directly overhead, and the word reached us from Arabic through medieval Latin and Old French.
Duluth, Minnesota still calls itself the Zenith City. The nickname comes from an 1868 speech by Dr. Thomas Foster, who predicted the settlement would become the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas, and it stuck.
As a name it does the same job as Atlas or Orion without sounding like either one.
49. Zephyr
- Origin: Greek mythology, anglicized
- Meaning: West wind
- Pronunciation: ZEF-ur
- Variations: Zephyros, Zephyrus, Zephyrine
- Popularity: #1,203 among U.S. boys’ names in 2025 (169 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 135% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Zephyr is the anglicized form of the Greek name Zephyros, meaning west wind. Zephyros was the god of that wind, the mildest of the four.
The word still means a soft breeze in English, so the name explains itself the moment anyone hears it. That is rare on a list this obscure.
The Ford Zephyr, built in Britain between 1950 and 1972, is the other association, though it was never manufactured for the American market. The name sits outside the US top 1000.
50. Zeus
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Sky, or shine
- Pronunciation: ZOOS
Zeus goes back to the old Indo-European sky god Dyeus, from a root meaning sky or shine. Cognates run through the Latin Jupiter, the Sanskrit Dyaus, and the Old Norse Tyr.
In Greek myth he rules from Olympus after he and his siblings defeat the Titans, controls the weather, and carries a thunderbolt. There is no understated way to give a child this name.
By way of Dionysos it also connects to Deon, Dennis, and Dwight, a family tree almost nobody would guess.
50 Girls Names That Mean Wind, Sky Or Storm
Fifty names for girls, running from a Greek whirlwind to a Basque storm, a Sotho rain name, and a Georgian word for the sky. Origins and meanings are listed with each one, along with a pronunciation guide on most.
51. Aella
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Whirlwind
- Pronunciation: ah-EL-la
An Ancient Greek name, Aella means whirlwind.
In Greek myth she is an Amazon warrior, killed by Heracles during his quest for the girdle of Hippolyta, and older retellings arm her with a double-sided axe. For a name of five letters, it carries a lot of story.
It suits a baby you already suspect will be a small blur of speed and noise. The double l keeps it soft in the middle so the whole thing does not sound as fierce as the meaning.
52. Aellopus
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Whirlwind footed
Aellopus is a Greek name that means whirlwind footed.
It was one of the epithets given to Iris, the golden-winged messenger of the gods and goddess of the rainbow, who appears further down this list under her own name. If four syllables is more than you want on a birth certificate, Aella covers similar ground.
53. Aethra
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Bright sky
- Pronunciation: AY-thra
- Variations: Aithra
Aethra is a Greek name meaning bright sky, sometimes written Aithra.
It also names a genus of crab, with five species found in and around the Pacific, which is a strange but memorable second life for a sky word.
The th sits in the middle rather than at the front, so it is easier to say than it looks on paper.
54. Ahana
- Origin: Japanese
- Meaning: Sky flower
- Pronunciation: ah-HAH-nah
Ahana is a Japanese name that means sky flower.
The kanji combination behind that reading is the character for sky paired with the character for flower. Japanese being what it is, other kanji combinations share the same sound and mean entirely different things, so the written form carries the meaning rather than the pronunciation.
55. Alizée
- Origin: French
- Meaning: Trade wind
- Pronunciation: ah-lee-ZAY
Alizée is a French name meaning trade wind, the steady band of wind that carried sailing ships west across the Atlantic.
It is a genuinely modern name rather than a revived one. It first appeared on the French charts in 1986, peaked in 2001, and has drifted down gently since.
The accent on the second e is doing real work. Without it, English speakers reach for a hard z sound that the French name does not have.
56. Amaterasu
- Origin: Japanese mythology
- Meaning: Shining over heaven
- Pronunciation: ah-mah-teh-RAH-soo
Amaterasu is built from the Japanese ama, meaning heaven or sky, and terasu, meaning shine, so the whole name reads as shining over heaven.
She is the Japanese sun goddess and ruler of the heavens, born when Izanagi washed his left eye after returning from the underworld. The Japanese royal family once claimed descent from her.
You can still visit the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie Prefecture, which is dedicated to her. Five syllables is a lot for daily use, so most families outside Japan would lean on a nickname such as Ama or Teri.
57. Amihan
- Origin: Tagalog
- Meaning: North wind, winter storm
- Pronunciation: ah-MEE-hahn
Amihan means north wind or winter storm in Tagalog, and in the Philippines it also names the cool, dry season those winds bring.
In Tagalog mythology, Amihan is the first living being to inhabit the universe. The deity is genderless and appears in the form of a bird, which makes this one of the few names here that is both a weather word and a creation story.
58. Anemone
- Origin: English, from Greek
- Meaning: Wind, by way of the anemone flower
- Pronunciation: uh-NEM-uh-nee
Anemone comes from the Greek anemos, meaning wind, through the name of the flower.
That makes it a wind name and a flower name at once, with the sea anemone thrown in as a bonus association. Windflower is the old English name for the same bloom, which is a lovely thing to be able to tell a child.
Four syllables and a silent-looking final e mean it will be misread on paper now and then. Say it uh-NEM-uh-nee and it settles quickly.
59. Anila
- Origin: Sanskrit, used in Hindi
- Meaning: Wind
- Pronunciation: uh-NEE-la
Anila is an Indian name meaning wind.
It is the feminine form of Anil, who in Hindu tradition is a god of wind, so the pair works neatly for twins or for siblings named a few years apart.
60. Araceli
- Origin: Spanish, from Latin
- Meaning: Altar of the sky
- Pronunciation: a-ra-THEH-lee in Spain, a-ra-SEH-lee in Latin America
- Variations: Aracelis, Aracely, Arcelia
- Popularity: #746 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (364 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, down 7% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
A Spanish name, Araceli comes from the Latin ara, meaning altar, and coeli, meaning sky.
It is an epithet of the Virgin Mary in her role as patron saint of Lucena in southern Spain, which is why it runs so deep in Spanish speaking families. Ara Coeli, the altar of heaven, is also the name of a basilica in Rome.
It ranked #746 in the United States in 2025. Celi and Ara are the usual short forms.
61. Audra
- Origin: Lithuanian
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: AW-dra
- Variations: Audronė
- Popularity: #2,003 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (95 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Falling in the United States, down 21% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
The Lithuanian name Audra means storm, and it is the feminine form of Audrius.
Americans have used it since the mid nineteenth century, mostly as an alternative to Audrey, which is a different name meaning noble strength. It reached its US peak in 1967 and has since dropped out of the top 1000.
That gives you a name that sounds midcentury and familiar while actually meaning something considerably wilder.
62. Aura
- Origin: English, Italian, Spanish, and Finnish, from Greek
- Meaning: Breeze
- Pronunciation: OR-uh in English, OW-ra in Italian and Spanish
- Popularity: #817 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (333 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 258% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Aura is an English girl name meaning breeze, from the Greek aura by way of Latin.
The everyday English sense, a distinctive atmosphere around a person, grew out of the same word, so the name says light air and personal presence at the same time.
It is used in Italy, Spain, and Finland as well, where it has a name day on March 10. It ranked #817 in the United States in 2025.
63. Auretta
- Origin: Italian
- Meaning: Light breeze
- Pronunciation: ow-RET-ta
Auretta is an Italian name that means light breeze, a diminutive built on the same aura that gives us the entry just above.
The double t gives it a bounce that Aura does not have, and it shortens to Etta, which has been quietly fashionable again for a decade. For families who like Italian names but find Arabella and Isabella everywhere, this is a genuine alternative.
64. Awen
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: Muse, poetic inspiration
- Pronunciation: AH-wen
Awen is a Welsh name meaning muse or poetic inspiration.
It shares a root with the Welsh awel, meaning breeze, and both trace back to a word root meaning to blow. In the old bardic sense, awen was said to blow across an artist and leave inspiration behind, which is a beautiful reason to give a child a wind name.
Four letters, two syllables, and no spelling arguments in English.
65. Azure
- Origin: English, from Persian by way of Arabic, Latin, and Old French
- Meaning: Sky blue
- Pronunciation: AZH-ur
- Variations: Azura
Azure is an English name that means sky blue.
The word traveled a long way to get here. It goes back to the Persian lajvard, meaning lapis lazuli, and reached English through Arabic, Latin, and Old French. Along the way medieval French readers took the opening l of lazuli for the article l’, and the word lost that letter for good.
It is used for boys and girls, and Azura is the softer feminine variant if the bare color word feels too plain.
66. Bonaria
- Origin: Sardinian
- Meaning: Good wind
Bonaria is a Sardinian name that means good wind.
It comes from a Sardinian title for the Virgin Mary, Nostra Signora di Bonaria, or Our Lady of the Good Wind, given to her as patron of sailors and mariners. Cagliari, the island capital, still has a basilica under that name.
For a family with Sardinian roots it is specific in a way that Maria never manages to be.
67. Ĉiela
- Origin: Esperanto
- Meaning: Heavenly, of the sky
- Pronunciation: chee-EH-la
Ĉiela is an Esperanto name that means heavenly or of the sky, formed from cielo, the Esperanto word for sky.
Esperanto was designed by the Polish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof, who published it in 1887. He wanted an easy second language that anyone could learn, in the hope that people who could talk to each other would fight less.
The accented c is pronounced like the ch in church, so the name opens chee rather than see.
68. Cielo
- Origin: Spanish, from Latin caelum
- Meaning: Sky, heaven
- Pronunciation: SYEH-lo in Latin America, THYEH-lo in Spain
- Popularity: #795 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (342 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 96% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Cielo is a Spanish name meaning sky or heaven, and Spanish speakers also use the word as an endearment, the way English speakers say sweetheart.
In Mexico the name was popularized by a character called Cielo on the 1999 telenovela Por tu amor. It ranked #795 in the United States in 2025, so American use is real but modest.
Whether you say SYEH-lo or THYEH-lo will tell people which side of the Atlantic your Spanish comes from, so settle on one before the name goes on paper.
69. Dangira
- Origin: Lithuanian
- Meaning: Sky
- Pronunciation: dahn-GHEER-ah
Dangira is a Lithuanian name that means sky, built on dangus, the Lithuanian word for it.
The stress sits firmly on the second syllable, dahn-GHEER-ah, which gives it a rolling rhythm most English names do not have. Outside Lithuania it is close to unheard of, so it is a real find for a family wanting Baltic heritage on the birth certificate.
70. Dima
- Origin: Arabic
- Meaning: Downpour
- Pronunciation: DEE-ma
- Variations: Dema
Dima means downpour in Arabic, specifically the kind of steady rain that soaks in rather than passing over.
You will occasionally meet a male Dima, but that is a different name: among Russian and Ukrainian speakers it is the short form of Dmitri. Same four letters, separate families.
71. Ekaitza
- Origin: Basque
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: eh-KIGHT-sa
- Variations: Ekaitz, the base form
Ekaitza is the Basque word for storm, ekaitz, in its definite form.
The etymology is bluntly practical. Ekaitz is built from egun, meaning day, and gaitz, meaning bad, so a storm in Basque is literally a bad day. Not many name meanings are that honest.
72. Era
- Origin: Albanian
- Meaning: Wind
- Pronunciation: EH-rah in Albanian, EER-uh in English
- Popularity: #2,704 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (64 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 178% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Era is an Albanian name derived from ere, meaning wind.
It had a real American run once. Era ranked as high as #340 in 1898, held on through the early twentieth century, and dropped out of the top 1000 girls names in the 1930s without ever coming back.
Three letters, one clean syllable, and an English word attached to it that suggests something big is starting. That is a lot of weight for a very small name.
73. Glaw
- Origin: Welsh
- Meaning: Rain
- Pronunciation: GLAH-oo, rhyming with now
Glaw is a modern Welsh name that means rain, from the Proto-Brythonic root that also gives Breton its glav.
The spelling misleads English readers badly. It looks as though it should rhyme with flaw, but Welsh w is a vowel here, so Glaw rhymes with now.
74. Haizea
- Origin: Basque
- Meaning: Wind
- Pronunciation: eye-SEH-ah
- Variations: Haize, the base form
Haizea means wind in Basque, the definite form of haize.
The Haizea Wind Group, a Spanish company that builds wind turbines in Spain and Argentina, took its name from the same word, which is a modern nod to a very old one.
Basque names have grown steadily more popular across Spain over the last few decades, and this is one of the softest of them.
75. Haneul
- Origin: Korean
- Meaning: Heaven, sky
- Pronunciation: hah-NUL
Haneul is a Korean name that means heaven or sky, written in hangul as a single everyday word rather than with Chinese characters.
It is genuinely unisex in Korea, though far more girls than boys receive it, so most sources abroad file it as feminine. That native-word origin is part of its appeal for Korean parents, who have been moving away from Sino-Korean names for a generation.
76. Inanna
- Origin: Sumerian mythology
- Meaning: Lady of the heavens
- Pronunciation: ih-NAH-na
Inanna is an “I” name from Sumerian mythology. It is usually read as lady of the heavens, from nin, meaning lady, and an, meaning heaven or sky.
She was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war. She went down into the underworld, where her sister Ereshkigal had her killed, and the god Enki intervened so she could leave again, on the condition that her husband Dumuzi take her place.
Later cultures folded her into the Akkadian and Babylonian goddess Ishtar, so she has one of the longest continuous histories of any name here. Nana is the obvious nickname.
77. Iris
- Origin: Greek
- Meaning: Rainbow
- Pronunciation: EYE-ris
- Variations: Iiris, Irida
- Popularity: #61 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (3,729 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 150% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
An English name, Iris means rainbow in Greek.
Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow and a messenger to the gods, which is why a rainbow was read as the bridge she traveled on. The flower and the colored part of the eye take their names from the same source.
That mix of sky, flower, and body part gives it unusual range, and it makes a graceful name for a rainbow baby.
It is also the most popular name on this list by a distance, ranked #61 in the United States in 2025.
78. Kailani
- Origin: Hawaiian
- Meaning: Sea and sky
- Pronunciation: kye-LAH-nee
- Variations: Kaylani, Kailany, Kehlani
- Popularity: #253 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (1,215 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 405% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Kailani is a Hawaiian name built from kai, which means ocean or sea, and lani, meaning sky or heaven.
A name that holds the horizon in it, where the water meets the sky, is a rare thing to find in four syllables.
American use has grown quickly, and it ranked #253 in 2025. The related spellings Kaylani and Kehlani have followed it up the charts, so expect to hear all three.
79. Kapheira
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Stormy breath
- Pronunciation: ka-FAY-ra
- Variations: Capheira
Kapheira is a mythological Greek name that means stormy breath. In myth she is a daughter of Oceanus who helped raise the young Poseidon, which keeps her firmly in sea and weather territory.
The K spelling is a direct transliteration of the Greek. You can also use the classical Latin spelling Capheira, which most English speakers will find easier to read on sight.
80. Minnesota
- Origin: Dakota
- Meaning: Cloudy water, or sky-tinted water
Minnesota is a Dakota Sioux name usually translated as cloudy water.
The alternative reading, sky-tinted water, is the one that puts it on this list, and it is the better image: a river surface holding the color of the sky above it.
As a first name it is a lot to carry. Minnie and Sota are both usable short forms, and plenty of families use it as a middle name for a child born in the state.
81. Misty
- Origin: English
- Meaning: Covered in mist
- Pronunciation: MIS-tee
- Variations: Misti
- Popularity: #4,140 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (35 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Falling in the United States, down 50% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Misty comes straight from the English word, which traces back to Old English.
The jazz standard Misty, recorded by Erroll Garner in 1954, is credited with pushing it into use as a name, and the song sat at the center of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Play Misty for Me.
It peaked in the 1970s and has since left the US top 1000, which puts it in the sweet spot where a name stops sounding dated and starts sounding deliberate.
82. Nephele
- Origin: Greek mythology
- Meaning: Cloud
- Pronunciation: NEF-uh-lee
- Variations: Nefeli
Nephele comes from the Greek nephos, meaning cloud.
In Greek legend she was made from a cloud by Zeus, shaped to look like Hera, in order to test whether Ixion was secretly in love with his wife. Ixion was, and Nephele went on to become mother of the centaurs, along with Phrixus and Helle by Athamas.
Modern Greek families use Nefeli, which is currently one of the more popular girls names in Greece. Both are far softer to say than the myth behind them suggests.
83. Ninlil
- Origin: Sumerian mythology
- Meaning: Lady of the wind
- Pronunciation: NIN-lil
Ninlil is a Sumerian name built from nin, meaning lady, and lil, most often read as wind.
She was the consort of Enlil, whose name is built from the same second element and appears in the boys section above, so the pair works as a matched set for twins.
She was also called the varicolored ear and treated as a goddess of grain, particularly barley, so her portfolio ran from weather to the harvest it decided.
84. Nuit
- Origin: Ancient Egyptian
- Meaning: Sky
- Pronunciation: NOO-it
- Variations: Nut, Nuth
A name from ancient Egypt, Nuit means sky. She is the sky goddess herself, usually painted arched over the earth with stars along her body.
The Book of Nuit, sometimes written as the Book of Nut, is a set of Egyptian astronomical texts covering the movements of the sun, the moon, the planets, and the cycles of the stars.
French speakers will read it as their word for night, which is a happy accident rather than a problem.
85. Pilvi
- Origin: Finnish and Estonian
- Meaning: Cloud
- Pronunciation: PIL-vee
Pilvi is a Finnish name meaning cloud, and Estonian families use the identical word.
Both countries give it a name day, April 19 in Finland and November 21 in Estonia, which is the kind of small detail that makes a heritage name feel like it belongs to somebody.
It does not appear in the United States top 1000, so an American Pilvi is likely to be the only one in her class.
86. Puleng
- Origin: Sotho
- Meaning: In the rain
- Pronunciation: poo-LENG
Puleng means in the rain in Sotho, and it is traditionally given to a child born during a rainfall, which in much of southern Africa is a blessing rather than an inconvenience.
Puleng is also the lead of the Netflix drama Blood and Water, set in an elite Cape Town school, where the story turns on her search for the sister who was kidnapped at birth. That show has done a great deal to introduce the name outside the region.
87. Rain
- Origin: English
- Meaning: Rain
- Pronunciation: RAYN
- Variations: Rayne, Raine
Rain is the English word used as a name, from the Old English regn.
Spelling changes the meaning here, which trips people up. Raine is a separate name meaning queen, and Rayne is a modern respelling of that one, so the plain four-letter version is the one that actually means weather.
88. Rakia
- Origin: Hebrew
- Meaning: Sky, heaven
- Pronunciation: rah-KEE-ah
Rakia is a Hebrew name meaning sky or heaven. In Genesis the same word names the expanse God sets between the waters, usually translated as the firmament.
In the Balkans, rakia is the general term for fruit brandy, most often apricot or plum. Commercial bottles run around 40 percent alcohol and homemade batches can go well past that, so the association is worth knowing before you pick it.
89. Samira
- Origin: Indian, and separately Arabic and Persian
- Meaning: Wind, breeze, air in the Indian reading
- Pronunciation: sa-MEE-ra
- Variations: Sameera
- Popularity: #723 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (387 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rising in the United States, up 47% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Samira is an Indian name that means wind, breeze, or air, and it is the feminine partner to Samir in the boys section.
Arabic and Persian speakers use the same spelling for a different name, the feminine of the Arabic Samir, meaning companion in evening talk. Which meaning your daughter carries depends entirely on which side of the family you ask.
It ranked #723 in the United States in 2025 and is common enough in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon to be a genuinely international choice.
90. Sema
- Origin: Turkish
- Meaning: Sky, heaven
- Pronunciation: seh-MAH
Sema is a Turkish word for sky, and it is used widely as a given name across Turkey.
A near-identical word turns up in Thai Buddhist practice, where sema stones mark the boundary of a temple ordination hall. The two are unrelated, but it is a neat coincidence for a name that means the boundary overhead.
There is no obvious nickname hiding inside it, so the name you choose is the name she will actually be called.
91. Skye
- Origin: Scottish place name, sometimes a variant of Sky
- Meaning: Sky, or the Isle of Skye
- Pronunciation: SKY
- Variations: Sky
- Popularity: #532 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (569 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, up 10% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Skye takes its name from the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland, and it doubles as the spelled-out version of the word sky.
That gives it two claims at once: a weather name for parents who want one, and a Scottish place name for families with roots there.
It ranked #529 in the United States in 2025, comfortably ahead of the plain Sky spelling, which sat at #948 that year.
92. Stormy
- Origin: English
- Meaning: Stormy, wild, turbulent
- Pronunciation: STOR-mee
- Variations: Storm, Stormi
- Popularity: #1,979 among U.S. girls’ names in 2025 (98 births), per U.S. Social Security Administration data. Steady in the United States, up 9% over the last 10 years of births against the 10 years before them.
Stormy comes from the English word meaning stormy, wild, or turbulent, which traces back to the Old English stormig.
It is the least subtle option here and the most affectionate, which is an unusual combination. Storm and Stormi are the variants in circulation, and Stormi in particular has had a boost from celebrity use.
Lake Erie College ran a contest in their alumni magazine during the 1994-95 academic year to pick a new mascot. The winner was Stormy, and he is still on the sidelines.
93. Tempest
- Origin: English, from Latin by way of Old French
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: TEM-pist
Tempest is the English word for a violent storm, used directly as a name.
It appears in the title of Shakespeare play The Tempest, first performed in 1611, which gives it a literary anchor that Stormy does not have.
The actress Tempestt Bledsoe, best known as Vanessa Huxtable on The Cosby Show, spells hers with a double t at the end. Either version is rare enough to turn heads on a class list.
94. Tondra
- Origin: Esperanto
- Meaning: Thunderous
- Pronunciation: TON-dra
Tondra means thunderous in Esperanto, formed from tondro, meaning thunder.
There is also a planet named Tondra, orbiting the star HD 148427 in the constellation Ophiuchus, roughly 193 light-years from Earth. It circles a little closer than Earth does to the sun and takes about 331 days to get around.
A name that means thunder and belongs to a planet is a strong pitch for a child who is going to like space.
95. Tsisana
- Origin: Georgian
- Meaning: Of the sky
- Pronunciation: tsee-SAH-na
- Variations: Tsisia, Tsiuri
A Georgian name, Tsisana means of the sky, from tsa, the Georgian word for sky or heaven.
It is also an alternative Georgian word for the flower English speakers call the forget-me-not, almost certainly because of that flower sky-blue color. A name that means both the sky and a small blue flower is doing a lot of quiet work.
The opening ts is one sound rather than two, closer to the ending of cats than to anything English puts at the front of a word.
96. Tuulikki
- Origin: Finnish
- Meaning: Little wind
- Pronunciation: TOO-lik-kee
- Variations: Tuuli, Tuule
Tuulikki means little wind in Finnish, built on tuuli, meaning wind.
In Finnish mythology she is a forest goddess, daughter of Tapio, which gives the name roots older than the diminutive ending suggests. Her name day in Finland falls on February 22.
Tove Jansson based Too-Ticky, the practical, level-headed character in the Moomin books, on her partner, the Finnish artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Tuuli is the everyday short form.
97. Varsha
- Origin: Sanskrit, used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and Tamil
- Meaning: Rain
- Pronunciation: VUR-sha
Varsha comes from the Sanskrit varsha, meaning rain.
In much of India the monsoon is the year most welcome event rather than a nuisance, so a rain name reads as fortunate rather than gloomy. For a baby girl born during a downpour, especially in a family with Indian heritage, it is close to perfect.
98. Vėtra
- Origin: Lithuanian
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: VEH-tra
A Lithuanian name, Vėtra means storm, and it is a cousin of the Latvian vetra and the Slavic words for wind.
Audra, higher up this list, is the other Lithuanian storm word, so the language gives you two entirely different options with the same meaning.
The French workwear company Vėtra, founded in Paris in 1927 and still run by the same family, is the name’s main association outside the Baltics.
99. Zerua
- Origin: Basque, from Latin caelum
- Meaning: Sky, heavens
- Pronunciation: seh-ROO-ah
- Variations: Zeru, the base form
Zerua is the Basque word for sky in its definite form, from zeru.
Basque is a language isolate with no known relatives, so this particular word is a borrowing: zeru came in from the Latin caelum and displaced the native Basque ortzi. The same Latin root sits behind Cielo, Ĉiela, Celestine, and Caelus elsewhere on this page.
Paired with Haizea above, it gives a Basque family a matched sky-and-wind set.
100. Zilan
- Origin: Kurdish
- Meaning: Storm
- Pronunciation: zee-LAHN
Zilan is a Kurdish name that means storm.
It is essentially unknown in the United States, so it will be spelled out at every appointment. For a family with Kurdish heritage looking for a storm name that has not been worn smooth by use, that is the whole appeal.
Whatever The Weather
If you want a weather name that will not need explaining, Iris, Abel, Kailani, and Skye all sit inside the US top 1000 and carry their meanings quietly. If you would rather nobody else in the class shares it, Myrsky, Haizea, Tsisana, and Corentin are waiting.
Either way, a weather name hands a child something they can point at. Not many meanings can do that.
