Hurricanes with female names more deadly than male-named, American study shows

WASHINGTON: Hurricanes with feminine names are likely to cause more deaths than hurricanes with masculine names, according to an analysis of more than six decades of hurricane death rates in the United States.

The study, published Monday in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said the reason is very simple because a storm with a feminine name is seen as less foreboding than one with a more masculine name.