This apartment complex name generator names a building for a story or a map: a name, then a word such as Arms, Mews or Lofts, explained in the list below. It doubles as an apartment names generator for one building.
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Name a building
Press New apartment name. Tap the name or the last word, press its padlock, then press again to change the other. Lock Lofts or Mews and press for a street of converted buildings.
What the last word means
A mews was a row of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above. A loft apartment is a large open space, often converted from light industrial use. A terrace is a row of joined houses. Arms are a heraldic design, and a brownstone is a townhouse clad in brown sandstone.
Tips
Lock a grand name such as The Belvedere and press through the last words.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for an apartment complex?
A name from the land, a grand old name or a plain modern one, then a word for the building. Heron Creek Commons, The Belvedere Arms and Park Twenty Lofts show the three styles on this page.
What does Mews mean in an apartment name?
A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above them, built behind large city houses before motor vehicles replaced horses.
What is a loft apartment?
A loft is a building's upper story, directly under the roof. A loft apartment is a large, adaptable open space, often converted for residential use from some other use, often light industrial.
Are these real apartment buildings?
Many are. Names like these are common, so a real building somewhere may carry one, and they were not checked against real buildings. Only the made-up names were searched in place lists and across Wikipedia.
How this list was compiled: 111 names for a made-up apartment building or complex, written for this page in four groups: water and hills, grand old names, plain modern names and invented ones. The first three groups are common names of the kind real buildings carry, so many of them belong to a real building somewhere; they were not checked against real buildings. Use one for a story, a game or a map. Each made-up name was checked by script on 2026-10-03 against a dictionary, lists of first names and surnames, GeoNames places (towns of the world, and every name in the tables for the United Kingdom and the United States, also with the spaces taken out; https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/, CC BY 4.0), names from published fiction, every list on this site, the page titles of English Wikipedia and a full-text search of English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). 49 of 70 candidates were cut (23 set aside on a second reading; 11 a real place; 6 already on another list of this site; 4 a name from published fiction, or one letter from one; 2 found on English Wikipedia; 2 too close to a real place or to a name from published fiction; 1 a real first name or surname). The names come from one list kept for all the made-up place pages of this site, so none is on two pages. No list of names is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: own work
Last word: all 25 words
Plain words 7
ApartmentsSelf-contained homes that each take up part of a building.
CondominiumsA building of homes that are each owned separately, with the grounds and the structure owned jointly.
EstateA housing estate is a group of homes built together as a single development.
FlatsThe British English word for apartments.
QuartersLiving space; originally a military word for barracks.
ResidencesA residence is a building, or part of one, used as a home.
TowerA tower block is a tall building; it is also called a high-rise or an apartment tower.
Show all 25 words (18 more)
Older words 10
ArmsIn heraldry, a design composed by heraldic rules and normally shown on a shield.
BrownstonesIn the United States and Canada, a brownstone is a townhouse clad in brown sandstone.
ChambersIn archaic use, a set of rooms in a building used as an office or an apartment.
CourtAn enclosed space or courtyard; also a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses.
LoftsA loft apartment is a large open space, often converted to homes from light industrial use.
ManorA landed estate, or the main house of one.
MansionsIn British use a mansion can be a luxurious flat; the word comes from the Latin for a dwelling.
MewsA row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living quarters above, built behind large city houses.
TerraceA row of houses joined with no gaps between them.
VillasA villa is a house in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
Borrowed from places 8
CommonsA shared area, especially the central part of an older town.
CrossingAn intersection where roads, lines or tracks cross.
GardensIn street names, a road that sometimes occupies a former garden.
HeightsA neighborhood or development built on a hill.
LandingA place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
PlaceFrom the Latin platea, a wide street.
PlazaA town's public square.
VillageA village is a rural settlement between a hamlet and a town in size.
How this list was compiled: 25 words that apartment buildings carry in their names, with what each word means. Each line follows the English Wiktionary entry for the word, or the English Wikipedia article Apartment, Tower block, Housing estate, Loft, Mews or Brownstone (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03; some lines keep the source's own words. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)