Great City Name Ideas Advice

[Xielos 0]

I like to use interesting or beautiful girl names, or names of cities/worlds from games. My current region is called Arcadia (from the RPG Skies of Arcadia, coincidentaly its a town here in Florida). Adrianna City, Angela City, anything that sounds nice. Try using names of past loves

[tomdapom 79]

Cities are usually named after the first settlers there. Where I live (NZ) the city is called Christchurch, named after a city in England where the first settlers came from. A city to the south is called Timaru which means 'land of cabbage trees' in Maori and a city further south is called Dunedin which means 'Edinburgh on the hill' in scottish, the first settlers in the city were scottish. More cities and towns in the north island are named in Maori, the first settlers in New Zealand. I hope this helped someone.

[beebs 129]

I frequently just use the names of areas here in Edmonton. For example, Riverbend, Terwillegar, Capilano, Mill Woods, Westmount. Now of course, some of the names are better than others but most of them can be used as a city name.

[silvermac 0]

one idea is to take a city's meaning, and change it, before putting it back

EG Los Angeles=The City of Angels

       Los Angulo=  The City of Angles

[gabor2609 0]

I find "A song of Ice and fire" by George R.R. Martin a great source of Inspiration for my regions hera are some exemples:

Oldtown

Riverrrun

Tumbleton

Crackhall

Seagard

Winterfell

Castle Black

White Harbor

Dredfort

Harrenhal

Lannisport

Casterly Rock

The Eyrie

Old Anchor

Runestone

Stonedance

Rainwood

Starfall

Sunhouse

Godsgrace

Lemonwood

Sunspear

Fairmarket

Sarsfield

Kingswood

Karhold

Pike

Redfort

ETC...ETC...ETC...

[haux 6]

I've started naming cities after cool streets around town. Colfax, Campbell, Second, etc.

[Srawldaddy74 17]

I look up county names on wikipedia...such as Pasquotank, Isle of Wight, Chesterfield, Brunswick etc...I find it easier than racking my brain for cool sounding names.

[Goin2Chicago 4]

i commonly name my cities after areas around were i live or after street names around me. i also use names of the countys around me. if i hear something that sounds good that could be a city name i'll also use that. another thing i'll do is name it after some geographical feature in the city.

[scaussie 0]

I love Scottish Single Malt Whisky, so tend to get inspiration from the names the distilleries come up with and mix it with words like valley, bay, town, etc I use the website http://www.scotchwhisky.net/malt/single1.htm to get the names of the whisky or look at my drinks cabinet.

When I run out of whisky, I'm thinking of using Scots gaelic and teeing it up with some of my favourite sounding words e.g. Inversmeegil (Inver meaing 'river mouth' and Smeagol (Gollum) from lord of the rings)

Some of the names used so far...

Talisker Old Town

Drambuie Heights

Old Puteney

Glenlivet Bay

Highland Park

Isle of Jura

Laphroaig Valley

also, I recently went to San Diego and loved the place. They served really yummy bagels in the hotel, so I decided to name a city 'San Bagel' (sad, i know lol)

[imhurt66 0]

Im getting theses names from an ADC map of Frederick County MD. Im using neighboorhood names and subdivions.Im also using street names.

Carrol Valley

Fountain Dale

Greenstone

Charmian

Monterey

Mhchaux

St.Forest

Beartown

Rouzerville

Midvale

Wayne Heights

Cress

Waynesboro

Rocky Forge

Wingerton

Lettersburg

Fairplay

Blueridge sumit

Mount Joy

Cumberland

Littlestown

Georegtown

Bowers

Taneytown

Coppersville

Otterdale Mill

Feesersburg

Middleburg

Keymar

Detour

Bruceville

Keysville

Longville

Harney

Kingsdale

Mayberry

Uniontown

Clear Ridge

Linwood

Marston

New Windsor

Sams Creek

Dorceytown

Mount Airy

Old London

New Market

Linganore

McKaig

Mount Pleasent

Bartensville

Walkersville

Daysville

Chestnut Grove

Libertytown

Centerville

Johnsonville

Ladiesburg

New Midway

Bethel

Yellow Springs

Frederick

Detrick

Rosemont

Monocacy

Lilypons

Braddock

Shookstown

Harmony

Burkittsville

Brunswick

Point of Rocks

Lucketts

I could name a lot more but I don't have the time

[Micah 16]

My favorite is Axtello--

From there I can change it to however I like it.

Axtella

Axtell

Southern Axtello

Northern Axtello

Axtropolis

and etc.

[tomdapom 79]

A few from where I live

Papanui

Redwood

Spencerville

St. Martins

Cashmere

Aranui

Westmorland

Bryndwr

Hillmorton

Mt. Pleasant

New Brighton

Kaipoi

Rolleston

Hornby

Halswell

Sumner

Taylor's Mistake

Timaru

Oamaru

Pleasant Point

Cave

Mt. Lyford

Burnside

Avonhead

Avonside

St. Albans

Belfast

Spreydon

Hoon Hay

Fendalton

Merivale

Linwood

Parklands

Somerfield

Brooklands

Riccarton

Kaikoura

Fairlie

Springfield

Springston

Temuka

Cheviot

Blenheim

Hamner Springs

Lots more but I cant be smelled writing them

[Safrani 0]

Use names of YOUR neighbouring towns

+ Dutch city names: Antwerpen, Brussel, Gent, Brugge, Hasselt, Mechelen, Putte, Heist, Tremelo, Berchem, Lier, Oostende, Nieuwpoort, Wavre, Namur, Liege, Arlon, Mons, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag, Groningen, Appeldoorn, ...

[mrbarham 4]

I usually pull names out of some of the science fiction books that I have read, people or plase names... I am about to start Jaxom city

[IronDogg 0]

I am a little less original than all of you. I use city names like ResCom 01, ResCom 02, ResCom 03, Dirty 01, Dirty 02, Dirty 03, HiTech 01, HiTech 02, HiTech 03, Agri 01, Agri 02, etc, etc... I know this is probably boring, but it really helps me out when I am looking at the regional view for planning, and organization, etc...