Fantasy Place Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Own list of 400 invented place names, 40 for each of ten kinds of place on a map: town, village, forest, mountain, river, lake, sea, island, kingdom and inn. Each name joins a first part (an everyday word, an old word, or a root we made up) to a real place-name word, and the card says what that word means. The 60 place-name words (beck, bight, bourne, bridge, burn, cay, cote, crag, croft, deeps, ey, fell, firth, ford, frith, gard, garth, gate, grove, haven, heim, hold, holm, holt, horn, hurst, -ia, inch, isle, land, ley, llyn, loch, march, mark, market, mere, mount, pike, pool, port, reach, rill, river, scar, sea, shaw, shire, skerry, sound, stack, stow, strait, tarn, thorpe, toft, tor, water, weald, wood) were each looked up in English Wiktionary on 2 October 2026 and the printed meaning was checked against the entry; hold follows the entry for stronghold, and horn follows English Wikipedia's article Pyramidal peak. The inn names are plain phrases and carry no such word. Every name was screened by script that day and dropped on any hit: every place and feature in the GeoNames world list, by name and alternate name, with and without spaces (https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/, CC BY 4.0); a name search of OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), for the name as printed and split into two words; an exact English Wikipedia page title with and without The; the page titles of 16 fantasy fan wikis and an exact page title on eight more fan wikis of games and films; a list of famous fantasy places; every other list on this site; every name the rows of the city, island, kingdom, forest, mountain, river, inn and shop name pages can spell; a dictionary and a rude-word list (https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words). Of 494 names first written, 94 were dropped; the second screen replaced 74 more that were a real place, a street or a house somewhere, were built on the name of a real place, or matched a name in a game or a film. No list of places is complete, so a name here can still match a real place by chance. Licence: Own work. The meanings of the place-name words follow English Wiktionary and, for horn, English Wikipedia, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).