Retirement Surprises

[Chacor]

Even if the US doesn't request retirement of Ike, which I doubt, Cuba will almost definitely do so. And even possibly the UK (for Turks and Caicos).

[Category 5]

but the death toll is fairly low, and Ike was only a Cat 2

I could live with another Ike in six years if it doesn't hit my part of the world.

Ed would you mind telling me what you are smoking?

Ike has killed 150+ people. And I cannot believe someone would still utter the phrase "Only a cat 2"

[Ed Mahmoud]

but the death toll is fairly low, and Ike was only a Cat 2

I could live with another Ike in six years if it doesn't hit my part of the world.

Ed would you mind telling me what you are smoking?

Ike has killed 150+ people. And I cannot believe someone would still utter the phrase "Only a cat 2"

Just trying to conserve "I" names.

[Chacor]

There's no need to "conserve" anything; as was stated earlier they could easily just skip the letter if it comes to that. "Q" and "U" are already skipped anyway.

[Category 5]

but the death toll is fairly low, and Ike was only a Cat 2

I could live with another Ike in six years if it doesn't hit my part of the world.

Ed would you mind telling me what you are smoking?

Ike has killed 150+ people. And I cannot believe someone would still utter the phrase "Only a cat 2"

Just trying to conserve "I" names.

Well there's no freakin way this one is "conserved". At LEAST 2 nations will request retirement, maybe 3.

[HurricaneRobert]

There's no need to "conserve" anything; as was stated earlier they could easily just skip the letter if it comes to that. "Q" and "U" are already skipped anyway.

There are millions of names they could use on these lists. There's no chance the US doesn't request its retirement anyway.

[Cleveland Kent Evans]

Ivory....a MALE name?

Yes, it was probably much more male than female until recently.

It's one of many names like Ashley, Shirley, Beverly, Leslie, Dana, etc. that started out as mostly male which have turned mostly female over the years.

34 of the first 50 Ivorys in the 1930 US Census records on Ancestry.com are male.

Just wondering, are there any opposite crossovers (names normally associated with females until recently?) Also, of those, I can see Ashley as being male for a time. It seems more like a unisex name rather than a one gender or the other.

There are very few examples of a name crossing in the other direction, and none that I know of when a name started off as mostly female in the beginning.

In the USA, Dana had switched to mostly female for a few years in the early 1940s when that reversed between 1947 and 1954 because of the fame of the actor Dana Andrews. Ashton was mostly female between 1986 and 1997 in the USA because of a character in the TV miniseries "North and South", but then reverted to male, probably under the influence of Ashton Kutcher. But those are about the only examples in the USA of a name which had turned to mostly female reversing that trend.

Ashley has been predominantly female in the USA since around 1970 at least. This is one with a cultural difference: Ashley did not become predominantly female in Australia or the UK, and was still among the top 100 names for boys in England until 2003. If you look at the entire English speaking world Ashley is "unisex", but for people under the age of 35 the female Ashleys mostly live in North America and the male Ashleys in Australia or the UK.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Ilario. I believe it is Italian/Spanish for Hillary. The male Hillary.