Cleveland Kent Evans wrote:I also don't think it's really a big issue to have similar sounding names on lists for different years. What they really should be paying attention to is avoiding putting very similar names on both the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic lists in the same year. It's not going to be very confusing to have Julia and Julian both in the Atlantic in their separate years, but if you have a Julian along Mexico's east coast at the same time there was a Julia in the Gulf, that could cause confusion which really could lead to some tragic consequences.
Sara and Tara is a example that already exists. (IIRC, Susan was an option for Sandy's replacement. It might even have been the #1 option, but I could be wrong.)
Sometimes there are similar names on the same list in the same basin too... Arthur and Bertha come to mind.