# Dylan Storm Roof's middle name **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 11, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860 "2015-07-11T15:50:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/21 "2015-07-13T14:04:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Maybe it was the weather when he was born. Bring back that sunny day! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/22 "2015-07-13T14:28:30Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Maybe his parents wanted him to be a [meteorologist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Field). I was thinking “[Game of Thrones](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEkQFjAJahUKEwjUkMTAqNjGAhXLlogKHR3QBXI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDaenerys_Targaryen&ei=_MqjVdSiFcutogSdoJeQBw&usg=AFQjCNHvoLgVq1vtlt0EFhkFSn67yU8qgA&sig2=MEnDSTdUGYZgJLbgBvVMUw&bvm=bv.97653015,d.aWw)” shout-out. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/23 "2015-07-13T15:35:55Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > 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… 😃 They didn’t name him “Dylan,” they named him “Dylann,” which adds the element of moronic people who can’t spell and give their kid a yooneek name. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/24 "2015-07-13T15:46:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Unless you’re Welsh, of course. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > They didn’t name him “Dylan,” they named him “Dylann,” which adds the element of moronic people who can’t spell and give their kid a yooneek name. Which, apropos of nothing important, reminds me of a NatLamp comic piece about where Robert Zimmerman got his stage name - from some dumbster asking a librarian for books by this “Dial-Ann Thomas” guy. Juxtaposition, I guess. Which leads me to memories of their Juxaposition Comics, but it’s time to move on. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/25 "2015-07-13T15:56:30Z")
He was named after SC’s long-serving senator, Strom Thurmond, but there was a misspelling on the birth certificate. Just kidding! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/26 "2015-07-13T15:59:18Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > He was named after SC’s long-serving senator, Strom Thurmond, but there was a misspelling on the birth certificate. Just kidding! If that isn’t true, it should be.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/27 "2015-07-13T16:01:32Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > He was named after SC’s long-serving senator, Strom Thurmond, but there was a misspelling on the birth certificate. Just kidding! Well, “Strom” is also a middle name, so maybe you have something there. 😃 (He, his son and his grandson are all “James Strom Thurmond.”) ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/28 "2015-07-13T16:13:39Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Dylan Storm Roof’s middle name > > 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? You haven’t explained how the name “Storm” clearly has Nazi connotations? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/29 "2015-07-13T16:13:43Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Which, apropos of nothing important, reminds me of a NatLamp comic piece about where Robert Zimmerman got his stage name - from some dumbster asking a librarian for books by this “Dial-Ann Thomas” guy. Whose (the poet’s) name was pronounced “Dull-ann” in his native land, anyway: “Dill-ann” is an English spelling pronunciation, though such a common one that it’s just the English version of the name (i.e. Dylan “Dill-ann” is English for Dylan “Dull-ann” like “Carlos” is Spanish for “Carl”). [Cite](http://www.behindthename.com/name/dylan). (Edit: not that anyone cares, but take the etymology of the name on that site with a grain or two of salt. It’s not necessarily wrong, but it’s speculative.) ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/30 "2015-07-13T23:05:25Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > You haven’t explained how the name “Storm” clearly has Nazi connotations? 😕 Just google Nazi Storm. You’ll get Stormtroopers and various other things I don’t want to link to. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/31 "2015-07-13T23:56:24Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Just google Nazi Storm. You’ll get Stormtroopers and various other things I don’t want to link to. “Nazi Storm” has Nazi connotations. Googling “Storm” locates links to weather and Marvel Comics. Are you saying his parents give their son the middle name of Storm 21 years ago because they were, or favored, Nazis? Or are you implying that someone with the middle name of Storm had no choice but to become a Nazi sympathizer? ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/32 "2015-07-14T11:45:40Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Are you saying his parents give their son the middle name of Storm 21 years ago because they were, or favored, Nazis? Or are you implying that someone with the middle name of Storm had no choice but to become a Nazi sympathizer? I’m asking whether a) his parents are Nazis, or b) he gave himself the middle name Storm because he’s a Nazi, or c) his parents are not Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/33 "2015-07-14T12:12:50Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > “Nazi Storm” has Nazi connotations. > > Googling “Storm” locates links to weather and Marvel Comics. > > Are you saying his parents give their son the middle name of Storm 21 years ago because they were, or favored, Nazis? Or are you implying that someone with the middle name of Storm had no choice but to become a Nazi sympathizer? Dylann apologist, or what? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/34 "2015-07-14T14:28:09Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > I’m asking whether a) his parents are Nazis, or b) he gave himself the middle name Storm because he’s a Nazi, or c) his parents are not Nazis. It appears that this monster’s given middle name, at birth 20+ yrs ago, was Storm. Why? I have no idea. Maybe we could ask Dweezil Zappa, Kal-El Cage, or Apple Paltrow (or is it Apple Martin)? There doesn’t appear to be any 20+ yrs old reports that this monster’s parents were Nazis, or Nazi sympathizers. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/35 "2015-07-14T14:30:39Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Dylann apologist, or what? Why would you apologize for the mentally defective monster who somehow managed to justify the murder of nine innocent people? Shame on you. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/36 "2015-07-14T15:17:36Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Why would you apologize for the mentally defective monster who somehow managed to justify the murder of nine innocent people? Shame on you. You seemed awfully defensive about speculation on the meaning of the dude’s middle name. ---
**Author:** ![Redfishhunter930](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Redfishhunter930](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfishhunter930)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/37 "2015-07-14T16:42:09Z")
I know a kid at work whose name is Storm. Asked why his parents named him that and he said his father just liked the name. No other reason given. I knew a woman in Quebec whose name was Marie Soleil. She told me her parents were hippies in the sixties. She has blonde hair and a sunny disposition. But I wouldn’t call her a hippie. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/38 "2015-07-14T17:23:29Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > You seemed awfully defensive about speculation on the meaning of the dude’s middle name. I was discussing the monster’s middle name. You’re the one who promoted being an apologist. Shame on you. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/39 "2015-07-14T17:30:28Z")
Okay, who else is pointing a finger to their head and cocking the thumb? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860/40 "2015-07-14T17:43:23Z")
I think it was a good question, given that “Storm” does have connotations to the racist/white supremacy/aryan bullshit world. It was worth asking. It seems to have been answered (in the negative). Is it really worth ever-extending argument about “the meaning of is”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylan-storm-roofs-middle-name/724860.md?page=3)