if i name my little girl Katrina will people think of the hurricane still? also why ruin good names by naming hurricanes?

Katrina is a lovely name.

If you reside in USA, then people may still think of the hurricane, where as outside USA people wouldn't.

In 10 years time, in her adulthood, it wouldn't be referred to as a hurricane name.

Not sure how accurate is this is:

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, there is a strict procedure established by the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation. The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate. In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in a season, any additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/storm-names.htm...

Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older, more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods.

The use of easily remembered names greatly reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml

According to the website, Katrina is now a retired hurricane name for the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico.. But again, not sure how accurate site is. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml

As I said, I am not sure how accurate the above is.

Katrina is a strong, easily pronounced and remembered named.

I would still use the name, it is lovely (who knows, your little girl may live up to the strong name leaving a trail of evidence where ever she has been and broken hearts left behind as she ages).

If you look on this page, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml it has lists of names to be used up until 2019 and many names are commonly used ones.

Even here in Australia, the names list where cyclone names are taken from are common names, for 2014, names I love are on the list and many have been used for minor/average cyclones over the years eg Cyclone Charlotte, Cyclone Zelia etc.

Many hurricane/cyclone names of history are still used as names.

I still think of the hurricane when I hear that name. But most baby names are also hurricane / cyclone names, so there are many people out there that have names after disasters. Also another way to look at it is how strong / destructive the disaster was, as the hurricane was bad then some may say that the child my grow up bad or be a disaster to you. (Names can usually relate to something literal).

I so agree and I've been thinking the same thing after they ruined the name Katrina for a very long time, its very upsetting the weather people keep naming hurricanes after people's names…

they are doing ALOT of HUGE emotional damage to people who are named it. I think by now it should be ok, and her generation will not be tripping off of it since it happened so long ago to them.

Katrina was not a good name in the first place.

yes they will think of the hurricane

Yes, I think so. I don't know why.