Dylan Storm Roof, the Charleston murderer. Clearly “Storm” has Nazi connotations. Did his parents name him Storm, or did he make it up? What is his real middle name?
Perhaps I’m not in the loop, but the Nazi connotations aren’t clear to me. What are they?
Maybe Storm Trooper?
It seems an unfortunate choice of middle names for someone with the last name of Roof. My first thought was Storm Cellar.
Maybe it was the weather when he was born. He could have been named Heatwave.
Maybe his parents wanted him to be a meteorologist.
The Brown Shirts (the guys who were the Nazi party’s enforcers before the SS) were the Sturmabteilung.
The sturmgewehr was a WWII assault rifle.
The Sturmpanzer was a kind of tank.
Sturmfuhrer was a WWII German rank. A few ranks got “sturm” added.
The Volksturm were late WWII militias.
It generally means “assault” as in “we shall storm this fortress!” and the Nazis really liked the word. And it must sound really nice to teenagers trying to look edgy and tough.
I’ve wondered the same thing that the OP is asking. Whet kind of name is that???
Bad enough that they had spell his first name with 2 Ns, but at least they didn’t name in Dylann SStorm Roof.
I thought they might have been big Bob Dylan fans
The wind howls like a hammer.
The night blows cold and rainy.
My love, she’s like some raven
At my window with a broken wing.
The primary, and absolute cesspit-ish site for white supremacy is Storm Front.
Storm Large (born Susan Storm Large), a local singer, is definitely no Nazi.
Particularly when they look pretty much the polar opposite of tough.
Some people get a middle name from a family last name. So maybe his mother’s family was named Storm.
Her parents were Marvel fans, I take it…
It’s a perfectly good name for both men and women, especially from the Germanic/Nordic nations.
I think the OP might be on to something here, though, and I’ll be interested to see a little genealogy/family data.
Storm is a not uncommon “new” name used by parents who want “new” or atypical names. I have encountered that or similar nature-type names and I have no reason to believe that the parents are Nazis. Besides, real Nazis are often not that subtle.
And if there are Nazi connections, I think Stormfront first - the use of Sturm by the German military is a product of them being a military, and isn’t even spelled right.
I haven’t been following this kid’s story too much but it sounds like he was radicalized later in life and not directly by his family.
My impression is it’s his real middle name.
I think that’s a huge leap onto unsolid ground that you’re making with the Nazi assumption. His manifesto specifically mentions that he “was not raised in a racist home or environment.”
In addition to the other possibilities mentioned in this thread, I’ll offer one more. Some parents have a peculiar sense of humor when it comes to naming their children. I had a great aunt named Pearl Ring. A modern example would be North West.
Or the iconic Western novelist born Pearl Gray.
I think it was a question worth asking, though.
My son went to grade school with a kid named Storm, about 20 years ago. Just sounded cool to his parents I think.
I find it hard to believe that the parents had anything meaningful in mind giving him the middle name ‘Storm’ because they gave him the first name 'Dylan" which, how can I put this, is one of the most trendy, hipster, androgynous, last-name-as-first-names there is! It’s second only to, ugh*!*, Dakota… 
Unless you’re Welsh, of course.