100+ Names That Mean Storm, Thunder or Lightning (2026)

This list has more than 100 names that mean storm, sorted into girl and boy sections, then storm and thunder gods from a dozen mythologies, and a last group of unisex storm and wind names. Each entry gives the origin language and the accepted meaning, and where the etymology is disputed the entry says so.

How to use this list

Storm names are mostly thunder and lightning names. The literal word for storm shows up in a few (Storm, Tempest, Tufan, Arashi), but far more names come from thunder gods: Thor, Taranis, Perun, Raijin, Indra. Wind names are the gentle end of the theme and fill most of the unisex section at the end. Brontë is the most famous name on these lists with a real claim, and its entry explains how.

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Girl names that mean storm

The literal choices for girls are Storm, Tempest, Arashi, Tormenta and Oluja.

Tempest — English, “storm”, from Latin tempestas
Tempestt — modern spelling of Tempest
Tormenta — Spanish, “storm”
Tempesta — Italian, “storm”
Tempête — French, “storm”; rare as a name
Oluja — Croatian and Serbian, “storm”
Burya — Russian, “storm”; rare as a name
Stormi — modern spelling of Storm
Stormy — English, “stormy”
Arashi — Japanese 嵐, “storm”; used for either gender
Ranko — Japanese 嵐子, “storm child”; depends on the kanji
Fubuki — Japanese 吹雪, “snowstorm”
Hayate — Japanese 疾風, “gale”
Lan — Chinese 岚, “mountain mist”
Bora — Croatian, the cold north wind of the Adriatic; also Albanian, “snow”
Tuuli — Finnish, “wind”
Ilma — Finnish and Estonian, “air, weather”
Varsha — Sanskrit, “rain, the monsoon”
Megha — Sanskrit, “cloud”
Meghana — Sanskrit, “raincloud”
Barsha — Bengali form of Varsha, “rain”
Saudamini — Sanskrit, “lightning”
Vidyut — Sanskrit, “lightning”; used for either gender
Chanchala — Sanskrit, “restless”, a poetic word for lightning
Damini — Sanskrit, “lightning”
Tadita — Sanskrit, “lightning”
Bijli — Hindi, “lightning”
Barq — Arabic and Urdu, “lightning”
Raad — Arabic ra‘d, “thunder”; used for either gender
Brontë — English surname from Irish Ó Pronntaigh; the Brontë father chose the spelling to echo Greek brontē, “thunder”
Bronte — anglicised spelling of Brontë
Astrape — Greek, “lightning”, the lightning personified
Aello — Greek, “storm swift”, one of the Harpies
Ocypete — Greek, “swift wing”, a Harpy of storm winds
Celaeno — Greek, “dark”, the storm-cloud Harpy
Iris — Greek, “rainbow”, the messenger after storms
Nephele — Greek, “cloud”
Aura — Greek, “breeze”
Zephyrine — French, from Zephyrus, the west wind
Brisa — Spanish and Portuguese, “breeze”

Boy names that mean storm

Storm — English, “storm”
Sturm — German, “storm”; rare
Tufan — Turkish and Persian, “flood, storm”
Toofan — Persian and Urdu spelling of Tufan
Tayfun — Turkish, “typhoon”
Typhon — Greek, the storm giant and father of monsters
Raiden — Japanese 雷電, “thunder and lightning”
Raijin — Japanese 雷神, the thunder god
Rai — Japanese 雷, “thunder”
Ikazuchi — Japanese 雷, “thunder”; archaic
Kaminari — Japanese 雷, “thunder”
Lei — Chinese 雷, “thunder”
Leiting — Chinese 雷霆, “thunderclap”
Indra — Sanskrit, king of the gods, wielder of the thunderbolt
Vajra — Sanskrit, “thunderbolt, diamond”
Vajrang — Sanskrit, “of thunderbolt body”
Garjan — Sanskrit, “thunder”
Meghnad — Sanskrit, “thunder”, literally “cloud roar”
Ghanshyam — Sanskrit, “dark as a raincloud”, a name of Krishna
Parjanya — Sanskrit, Vedic god of rain and thunder
Rudra — Sanskrit, “the roarer”, a Vedic storm god
Marut — Sanskrit, the storm gods who ride with Indra
Thor — Old Norse Þórr, “thunder”
Thorin — Old Norse, “darer” or linked to Thor; debated
Thorsten — Old Norse, “Thor’s stone”
Torsten — Swedish spelling of Thorsten
Thorvald — Old Norse, “Thor’s ruler”
Torben — Danish, “Thor’s bear”
Tor — Norwegian, “thunder”, from Thor
Thurston — English form of Thorsten
Donner — German, “thunder”
Donar — Old High German name of Thor

Storm and thunder gods

Taranis — Celtic thunder god, “thunderer”
Toranis — variant of Taranis
Perun — Slavic thunder god, “striker”
Perkūnas — Lithuanian thunder god
Pērkons — Latvian thunder god
Ukko — Finnish sky and thunder god
Zeus — Greek, the sky and thunder god
Keraunos — Greek, “thunderbolt”
Brontes — Greek, “thunderer”, one of the Cyclopes
Steropes — Greek, “lightning”, one of the Cyclopes
Arges — Greek, “bright”, the third Cyclops, of the flash
Jupiter — Latin, the thunder-wielding sky father
Fulgur — Latin, “lightning”
Fulgencio — Spanish, from Latin fulgens, “shining, flashing”
Enlil — Sumerian, “lord wind”, god of storms
Adad — Akkadian storm god
Hadad — Semitic storm god, the Baal of Ugarit
Baal — Semitic, “lord”, the storm god of Canaan
Teshub — Hurrian storm god
Tarhunz — Hittite storm god, “conqueror”
Set — Egyptian god of storms and the desert
Shango — Yoruba god of thunder and lightning
Tlaloc — Aztec god of rain and thunder
Chaac — Maya god of rain and lightning
Huracan — Maya storm god, the source of the word hurricane
Illapa — Inca god of thunder and weather
Tawhirimatea — Maori god of storms and weather
Wakinyan — Lakota, the Thunderbirds
Susanoo — Japanese god of storms and the sea
Leigong — Chinese thunder god

Unisex names that mean storm or wind

Thunder — English, “thunder”
Lightning — English; rare
Gale — English, “strong wind”
Squall — English, “sudden wind”; mostly a character name
Monsoon — Arabic mawsim, “season”
Cyclone — Greek kyklōn, “circling”
Nimbus — Latin, “raincloud”
Cirrus — Latin, “curl of hair”, the high wispy cloud
Rain — English, “rain”
Zephyr — Greek, the west wind
Boreas — Greek, the north wind
Notus — Greek, the south wind
Eurus — Greek, the east wind
Anemoi — Greek, the four winds together
Aeolus — Greek, keeper of the winds
Kaze — Japanese 風, “wind”
Fuu — Japanese 風, “wind”
Pavan — Sanskrit, “wind, purifier”
Anil — Sanskrit, “wind”
Vayu — Sanskrit, the wind god
Sameer — Sanskrit and Arabic, “breeze”
Hawa — Arabic and Swahili, “air”; also the Arabic form of Eve, “life”
Ventus — Latin, “wind”
Vento — Italian, “wind”
Bayu — Indonesian and Malay, “wind”
Kari — Old Norse Kári, the god of the wind
Njord — Norse god of the sea and wind

Frequently asked questions

What girl names mean storm?

Tempest, Tormenta, Tempesta, Oluja and Arashi mean storm directly. Damini, Saudamini and Vidyut mean lightning, and Brontë carries the sound of the Greek word for thunder.

What boy names mean thunder?

Thor, Tor, Donner, Raiden, Rai, Lei, Garjan and Taranis are the literal ones. Perun, Perkūnas, Ukko, Indra and Shango are the thunder gods of the Slavic, Baltic, Finnish, Vedic and Yoruba traditions.

What name means god of thunder?

Thor in Norse, Zeus and Jupiter in Greek and Roman, Perun in Slavic, Taranis in Celtic, Raijin in Japanese, Indra in Sanskrit and Shango in Yoruba.

Does Brontë mean thunder?

Not originally. The family name was Irish, Ó Pronntaigh, spelled Brunty or Prunty. Patrick Brontë changed the spelling, probably to echo the Greek brontē, “thunder”, and perhaps Nelson’s title Duke of Bronte. The thunder meaning is chosen, not inherited.

What names go with storm?

Pair storm names with names that mean water, names that mean snow and names that mean night for a weather or dark-sky set.