How it works
This hospital name generator names a hospital for a story, a tabletop game or a hospital-building game. The names are invented; the kinds are real, and each has a line on what the word means.
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Name a hospital
Press New hospital name. Tap the name or the kind to lock it, then press again to change the other. Lock one name and press through the kinds to give a town its general hospital, its clinic and its infirmary.
What the kinds mean
An infirmary was historically a small hospital. A cottage hospital began as a small rural building with several beds. A sanatorium is a historic name for a place of long treatment and convalescence, and a lazaretto was a quarantine station for travelers by sea. A field hospital is temporary.
Tips
- For a story at sea or on the rails, lock Hospital Ship or Hospital Train.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for a fictional hospital?
A surname, a place or a virtue such as mercy, followed by the kind of hospital. Every name on this page has that shape.
What is the difference between a hospital and an infirmary?
Historically an infirmary was a hospital, especially a small one. The word can also mean a first aid room in a school or another institution.
What is a cottage hospital?
A cottage hospital is a mostly obsolete kind of small hospital, most common in the United Kingdom. The first ones were small rural buildings with several beds, which saved villagers a long journey.
Are these real hospitals?
No. The names are for stories and games. Each invented name was searched in place lists and across Wikipedia, and each plain name with every kind. A small real hospital may still share a name, so search before you publish.