 The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back many years, with systems named after places or things they hit before the formal start of naming.The system currently used provides positive identification of severe weather systems in a brief form, that is readily understood and recognized by the public.The credit for the first usage of personal names for weather systems is generally given to the Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge who named systems between 1887 and 1907.