City Name!!!!!!!!!!

[shane52sk 0]

Hey, im preparing to build a major city with suburbs and im looking for really good city names. I want it to be unique and not sound too suburban or country.

thx

-shane

[GaBoR 7]

Winterfell

[thatmonkeysim 8]

i think this needs to go here...

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

City names are often derived from geographic features.  If your city is a port, then something like Ocean City is good.  If you have a couple of mountains nearby, choose something like Les Deux Montaignes.

On the other hand, if you want a city name that has no real meaning, try a mishmash of your own city name.  I live in Wasaga Beach, so I could use something like Beornanga Reach.

[hyped_up_boy 15]

you could try using names of random objects around you, with equally random prefixes and/or suffixes. you can also use the name of the map you're using

[Shinnie02 17]

or just add words together and see if they match lol. My cities Silverpine City (geographic features of pine trees) silver just made it sound cool

[Sim_Jesse 1]

There's a tutorial on the Omnibus: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=76202&enterthread=y

[Constantina 5]

For me, I normally use real-world names as it is quicker. I just simply look up in a gazeteer and pick a random word. But not all of us will be able to do it fairly without a help from the computer.

Some city names have prefixes like North and South West. There are quite a few ways to represent, for example, NW: NorthWest, Northwest, North West and so on.

In the end, the possibilities are endless.

[paperboy15 4]

Mix and mash names of characters of TV shows or movies together

[simzebu 19]

Get out your phone book and look up some names. That's what I do.

[usad25 0]

Take 
Los Angeles= City of Angels 
in Spanish. For me I can take hours at choosing a city name cuz I just want the perfect one, you know.

[manu-fan 0]

Originally posted by: Sim_Jesse

There's a tutorial on the Omnibus: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=76202&enterthread=y

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Yeah, that's a really good link.

I'd never seen it before but was surprised to see that I follow some of it anyway!

For example, I live on Harvest Circle and have cities named South Harvest, Harvestburg, Lower Harvest etc. and also functionally named ones such as Powerville and River Rapids and such.

Cheers.

[sendarrow 3]

And then, if you are planning to build a BIG city, you can add in front of whatever name Greater. Like Greater New York, Greater Los Angeles, Greater Dublin...etc...

[ngarner 0]

For some reason I'm into Italian sounding names. Try Monicello or Giovannela. = )

[SC4Noobie 5]

Theres a name generator program somewhere Hold on while I look up the link.

Edit: Found it, it's right here.

[Mr food11 6]

Pollutionland!

Lol no, I'm very bad at naming things, so sorry I couldn't help.

[greyveil 37]

I have links to a few name generators and city name sites, here they are...

http://www.creepo.net/wicng/

http://www.townsusa.org/

http://www.geocities.com/terrorsmartyr/boe/citynames.html

[Kippis05 2]

Just throw some words together, maybe look at some objects around you, it helps me when I'm stumped, although it's easier for me to use real city names instead. Take for example, your city has alot of oak trees in it, you could call it Oak Park. Hope this helps

[Skyfire2275 23]

I usually just open a dictionary to a random page and pick a word... and repeat if the word sucks. You can really do this with any book. It is amazing how many words make good city names, if you just accept that if you use a word like "sells" (which I did once) that it can be a city name and not have anything to do with selling stuff. It's just a name. So my current city is called "Sells" which I think is pretty good. I usually use this technique, with any book around me whether its a dictionary, manual, a page, atlas, map... etc...

[Rymac91 15]

I use the random first and last names and maybe a few Sufixes and Prefixes and maybe words like City,Village,Town,Hub,etc. I use the Family Creater since it works pretty well and I can use it in the sims 2 as well.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, here are some names from my Muddle Earth region.  Use any you like.

 City - Amaroso Township.sc4

        City - Andillia.sc4

        City - Apto.sc4

        City - Banbury Cross.sc4

        City - Beside Fork.sc4

        City - Birnam Wood.sc4

        City - Bois L'Eau.sc4

        City - Bread Basket.sc4

        City - Brillig.sc4

        City - Cherubino Township.sc4

        City - Chetufai Township.sc4

        City - Citta Nuova.sc4

        City - Colline.sc4

        City - Collingnoise.sc4

        City - Commerce.sc4

        City - Conceptua.sc4

        City - Consumerville.sc4

        City - Cottages.sc4

        City - Dinah Shore.sc4

        City - Dirt Lumps.sc4

        City - Dusteruster.sc4

        City - East Bunbury.sc4

        City - East Middle Canal.sc4

        City - Escadrille.sc4

        City - Etta Township.sc4

        City - Farfarone Township.sc4

        City - Finis Hill.sc4

        City - Foothills.sc4

        City - Forest Lake.sc4

        City - Frabsly Gulch.sc4

        City - Glimmer Lake.sc4

        City - Glocamorrah.sc4

        City - Gymball.sc4

        City - Gyre.sc4

        City - Hargrove.sc4

        City - High Dunsinane.sc4

        City - Hillsdale.sc4

        City - Hoot 'n' Zoots.sc4

        City - Jelly K. NefraKnee.sc4

        City - Jungle.sc4

        City - Katmandu.sc4

        City - Lac des Deux Montainges.sc4

 

[spa 968]

Street atlas can be a good place to start. My current region has Connaught, Inglewood and Brisebois which are all streets in either Halifax or Calgary.

[greyveil 37]

I forgot a link, here it is, this also has a sim 2 name generator also

http://www.alturasforums.com/simnames/