Great tool for making city names

[Popball 16]

I found this website that generates names for your cites and I thought that I should share it with you guys.  It gives real world names so the names aren't very unusual. Great for when you cant think of any good names for your cities.

http://www.mithrilandmages.com/utilities/CityNames.php

 

[Superbacon 380]

Color me impressed. This will come in handy when I'm having trouble thinking of something good to name my Japanese cities. Thank you for sharing!

[Wiimeiser 452]

Where's the list of silly name parts from TTD then? I guess this'll do though.

[MandelSoft 2,775]

Well that's a lot of names. The previous city name generators I came across only could generate one language, but this one does a whole bunch! Thanks for linking

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Impressive, thanks.

[AcronShinra 60]

Rest of generators is also cool, streets, civics, terrain, everything!

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Awesome, thanks for posting this!

All of these will be very useful, especially for aspiring city journalists. It's great they're all based on real world names / places as well.

[Prophet42 1,503]

Nice!! Thanks for the link.  To generate street names, I usually pick a theme (like star names, horticulture, the elements, favorite Pink Floyd songs, etc...) .  For example... Time Ave, Strontrium St, Betelgeuse Prkwy....

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I know a few city planners, and the naming of streets is often left to the developers of a subdivision.  I know of one street that bears my surname in Toronto that was named after a guy (no relation, strangely) in the city planning office.  Unless you have a deliberately themed city like Ajax, Ontario where street names are for the crew of that famous ship.  The main drag is named Harwood Avenue after the captain of the ship that helped sink the Graf Spee.

[timmie 988]

This is really useful! Thanks for sharing!

[Simbabe54 15]

This is great, thanks!

[Kentpumas1980 4]

Great link...thanks!!!! I was only struggling for a city name the other day

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

This is great and better than any other generator I have used. I feel like it should be pinned.

[Turjan 1,048]

Yup, that's a cool name generator .

[mrbisonm 1,622]

I usually use my imagination to find a name, together with things around the house and on TV I see. But for "braincloudy" days, this can be quite useful. Thanks for sharing....and Great Find!!

 

mrb

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Aw, Fred, living in les cantons de l'est you shouldn't have any problem with names.  Look at all those villages around you. 

 

But anyway, yes, this is a very good little package if you want real world names.  I am usually not at a loss for names, but sometimes the old classical education fails.  I do have a rule to proceed alphabetically when naming, and I find that helps.  Here is my latest (incomplete) set:

 

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├── City - Appleby Station.sc4
├── City - Beresford.sc4
├── City - Costa Gorda.sc4
├── City - Dobrisia.sc4
├── City - Eleftheria.sc4
├── City - Fox Harbour.sc4
├── City - Greenville.sc4
├── City - Heracles' Pillars.sc4
├── City - Inskip.sc4
├── City - Janiculum.sc4
 

[mrbisonm 1,622]

Aw, Fred, living in les cantons de l'est you shouldn't have any problem with names.  Look at all those villages around you. 

 

 

You're right Moose, we have a lot of small villages around here, which I already have used most of them (mentioning that I have 59 regions filled with cities/ towns and villages) I never use the same name twice.

 

Here are some names from "Nexis of Genesis" (anyone remembers this longest lasting CJ on ST?), which are also from around the villages around here, the Eastern Townships (Cantons de l'Est)

 

North Hatley, Compton, Sherbrooke, St Malo, St Isidore, Sawyerville, CXoaticook, Ayer's Cliff, Black Lake, Bolton, Megantic, Cedar Bay, Sandhill, Wallace  etc.......just to mention a few and many more in my MD from SC4D, The Winding River Project.

 

Just like I said, this name generator can be useful, not that I will use it much though.

 

mrb

[nirgal23 23]

Oh I do like that.

 

When it comes to naming things, I go as real as I can, even down to grabbing from towns and villages here in the UK. 

 

However that site is going to make getting inspiration that much better - or even flat out using a few when I eventually get my handcrafted region finished and ready for settlement.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Speaking of the UK, I've often wondered what the products were for Upper Slaughter vs. Lower Slaughter.  Is there a Middle Slaughter?

[Superbacon 380]

It's been a little while since anyone's posted on this one. So bump. This is a great resource honestly. I use it exclusively to name my cities now. Anything I think of on my own is just generic or wacky. 

[Mr Saturn64 742]

I like this a lot!

I often have trouble naming cities.

[Fatherted 129]

It is good in theory, but I got a lot of current city names: Exeter and Delemont to name a couple. Still, about 3/5 are useful.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I guess naming cities, if you don't have a lot of life experience nor geographic education can be very difficult.  I read a great deal, and I find that fictional names are very useful.  Some examples:

 

Osnome

Dasor

Helium

Pelucidar

Trasimere

Boojum

East Snark

North Snark, etc.

 

Then there is the first city I ever named: Ohwhatawettness.

 

Most of the names in the list can be found in pulp science fiction of the 1930s and 1940s.

 

If you want to reach back into history there is:

 

Athens, Sparta, Ostia, Carthage, Samarobriva, etc.

 

The application is handy if you are really stuck.

[jeffryfisher 2,176]

I guess I have it easy. Because I'm working on a RL region (SF Bay), I just need to figure out where the heck I am based mostly on water features that I can recognize in Google maps. Then I use town, district, creek, mountain and prominent road names.

 

Even so, there are some undeveloped marshes filling whole large sectors with nothing. Maybe I should use God mode to sink them into a semi-aquatic mix of beach and shallow water (the rendering made their "land" way too usable).

 

BTW, Life-scale is HUGE. It's almost like playing an entire game of RR Tycoon just to run a few heavy rail mains across the region.