used to designate tropical storms and hurricanes are being retired out of respect for 2015 storm victims.
Erika, Joaquin and Patricia will be replaced by Elsa, Julian and Pamela, the World Meteorological Organization announced.
The intergovernmental organisation reuses tropical storm names every six years.
Names are retired when a storm is so deadly or costly that its continued use would be insensitive to those impacted by the storms.
Tropical Storm Erika was responsible for 30 deaths on the Caribbean island of Dominica and one in Haiti after forming in the Atlantic Ocean last August.
Thirty-four people, including 33 crew members from the cargo ship El Faro, were killed by Hurricane Joaquin in October.
Later that same month, Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere after reaching maximum sustained winds of 215mph (345kmh).
Patricia was linked to seven deaths and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
The massive storm led to catastrophic flooding in parts of Texas after making landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast.
There have been 80 tropical storm and hurricane names retired dating back to 1954, according to online weather service, Weather Underground.
Among them are 2005's Katrina and 2012's Sandy.
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