How is a hurricane's name determined, and who decides it?

Question

just wondering this, one year its females names and then men's names

Answer 1

a person who obviously doesn't have anything better to do with their life.

Answer 2

Tropical storms and hurricanes are given names to avoid confusion when more than one storm is being followed at the same time. A storm is named when it reaches tropical storm strength with winds of 39 mph. A storm becomes a hurricane when its wind speed reaches 75 mph.

American weather agencies began assigning girls' names to major tropical storms in 1953. Apparently they got the idea from military forecasters.

Later the assigning of names for Atlantic hurricanes was turned over to the World Meteorological Organization, a UN agency, theoretically making it an international responsibility. (Naming of hurricanes in the eastern Pacific is handled through a bilateral agreement with Mexico.)  

Answer 3

The National Weather Service compiles lists of names the the upcoming years storms. Here is a good site with a bit of history about the process and also a list of future storm names.

http://www.hurricaneville.com/names.html