Quite recently the proposition has been made that the real name of the deity was _Immeru_.[172] The ideograph in this case would arise through the curtailment of the name (as is frequently the case in the cuneiform syllabary), and the association of _Im_ with 'storm' and 'wind' would be directly dependent upon the nature of the deity in question.

The material at hand is not sufficient for deciding the question.

Besides Immeru, Adad, and Ramman, the deity was also known as _Mer_--connected apparently with Immeru.[173] So much is certain, that Ramman appears to have been the name currently used in Assyria for this god.

Adad may have been employed occasionally in Babylonia, as was _Mer_ in proper names, but that it was not the common designation is proved by a list of gods (published by Bezold[174]) in which the _foreign_ equivalent for _Im_ is set down as Adad.

We may for the present, therefore, retain Ramman, while bearing in mind that we have only proof of its being an epithet applied to the god, not necessarily his real name and in all probabilities not the oldest name.
We meet with the god for the first time in the hymn to which reference has already been made,[175] and where the god is mentioned together with Shamash.