http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/06/02/female-named-hurricanes-kill-more-than-male-because-people-dont-respect-them-study-finds/Study finds that people are less likely to take a hurricane seriously if it has a female name (and this is the primary cause of female named hurricanes having double the death toll of male named hurricanes, even once outliers like Katrina are removed).