Girl name origins & meanings
- English : Stormy weather; tempest
Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Storm, tempest
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English, North German, Dutch, and Scandinavian : nickname for a man of blustery temperament, from Middle English, Middle Low German, storm, Old Norse stormr ‘storm’.
- Dutch : name given to a child born at sea during a storm.
- The Dutch name first appeared when the son of Albert Andriessen Bradt was born at sea in 1636 during a storm on the family’s voyage to New Netherland; he was christened Storm van der Zee (“Storm from the sea”). Both Storm and <xref>Vanderzee</xref> are found as American family names.
