Weather Whether It's Blue Skies Or Grey

Last week while I was helping a patron with some genealogy research, I ran across a woman named Tornado. Was it a fluke? Ah, no. It turns out that many people's parents thought to name their children after weather phenomena. Check out these names I found in the US Federal Census:

Rain and lightning in Mississippi

• Rain Jett, F
  Kentucky, 1910
• Rainey Bacon, F
  Maryland, 1940
• Flood Edmonds, Sr. and Jr., M
  West Virginia, 1940
• Storm Moore, F
  Texas, 1900
• Tornado Harrison, F
  Pennsylvania, 1940



Tornado in Missouri

• Hurricane Smith, M
  West Virginia, 1930
• Cyclone Fox, M
  Michigan, 1940
• Blizzard Schneider, F
  New York, 1930
• Monsoon Peckham, M
  North Carolina, 1820
• Thunder Hatcher, M
  North Carolina, 1930
• Lightning Hightower, M
  Illinois, 1930



Blizzard in Minnesota

• Snow Baker, F
  Georgia, 1940
• Freeze Quick, M
  Pennsylvania, 1940
• Ice Lane, M
  Tennessee, 1940
• Frost White, M
  Maryland, 1910
• Milford Hail Acres, M
  Tennessee, 1940
• Sunshine Anderson, F
  Mississippi, 1940
• Breeze Huffman, F
  California, 1940



Flooding in Indiana

• Cloud Bagwell, M
  South Carolina, 1940
• Donna Fog Commett, F
  Kentucky, 1940
• Hot Brandon, M
  Mississippi, 1930
• Drought Davis, M
  New York, 1940
• Stark Weather Stevenson, M
  Arizona, 1940
• Climate Gaines, M
  Texas, 1940

When I have kids, I'm naming them Sleet and Mist. What do you think?

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