This Editors post in Geoscientist Online by Dr Ted Nield was forwarded by Stuart Black (Archaeology):
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/August-2014/Deadlier-than-the-male
”It’s official. Tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic – hurricanes, to you and me – are more deadly if they are more ‘Victoria’ than ‘Victor’. A study by scientists at the Illinois and Arizona State universities, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, revealed in June that – even excluding outliers like Katrina and Audrey – of the 47 most damaging hurricanes since 1950, those with feminine names killed on average 45 people, compared to 23 deaths in ‘masculine’ storms.”