This park name generator names a public park for a story, a game map or a class project: a founder, a landmark, a tree or a bird, then a real kind of park. The list below explains each kind.
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Name a park
Press New park name. Tap the name or the kind, press its padlock, then press again to change the other. Lock one name and press through the kinds to give a town its common, its arboretum and its greenway.
What the kinds mean
A pocket park is defined by its small size. An arboretum collects only trees and shrubs. A greenway is usually a shared path along a strip of undeveloped land, often a disused railway. A common is land in common ownership, and a pleasance is a pleasure ground of shady walks.
Tips
Lock Pocket Park and press again to fill a downtown with small parks.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for a park?
One that says who gave the land or what stands on it: a founder, a date, a hill, a tree or a bird. Founders Common and Kingfisher Greenway both follow that pattern.
What are the different kinds of park?
This page sorts them into four groups: parks (pocket, linear, country, dog), greens and commons, gardens (botanical, rose, sculpture, community) and wild places and trails such as a nature preserve, a greenway or a rail trail.
What is a pocket park?
A pocket park is a small park open to the general public. Its small size is what defines it. It is also known as a parkette, a mini-park or a vest-pocket park.
Are these real parks?
Some are. The founders' surnames are invented and were searched in place lists and across Wikipedia. The plain names, such as Overlook or Centennial, are common, so a real park somewhere may carry one. Search a name before you give it to a real place.
How this list was compiled: 105 names for a public park in a made-up town, written for this page: invented surnames of the kind a founder leaves behind, and plain names taken from a date, the lay of the land, a tree or a bird. The plain names are common ones, so a real park somewhere may carry one; they were not checked against real parks. 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). 39 of 82 candidates were cut (19 set aside on a second reading; 11 found on English Wikipedia; 4 already on another list of this site; 4 a real place; 1 a name from published fiction, or one letter from one). 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
Kind of park: all 26 kinds of park
Parks 8
City ParkAn urban park: green space and places for recreation inside a city.
Country ParkA natural area set aside for people to visit and enjoy the countryside.
Dog ParkA park where dogs exercise and play off-leash while their owners watch.
Linear ParkA park much longer than it is wide, on a strip of public land along a canal, a river or an old wall.
ParkAn area of natural or planted space set aside for enjoyment and recreation, or to protect wildlife.
PlaygroundA place designed for children's play, typically outdoors.
Pocket ParkA small park open to the general public; its small size is what defines it.
SkateparkA space built for skateboarding, BMX, scootering and inline skating.
Show all 26 kinds of park (18 more)
Greens and commons 6
CommonA tract of land in common ownership.
CommonsA central part of a town, usually an older one, kept as a shared area.
GreenA village green: a common open area in a village, once grassland with a pond for watering cattle.
MeadowOpen land covered with grasses and herbs, with few trees or none.
PromenadeA long, open, level place to walk, usually beside a river or the sea; also called an esplanade.
SquareAn open public space in the heart of a town, sometimes used for gatherings.
Gardens 7
ArboretumA botanical collection made up only of trees and shrubs: a living museum of trees.
Botanical GardenA garden with a documented collection of living plants, kept for research, conservation, display and education.
Community GardenLand gardened by a group of people, normally divided into individual plots.
GardensAn outdoor area of plants, usually grown for food or for ornament.
PleasanceA pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs.
Rose GardenA garden, often open to the public, that grows and shows many types of garden roses.
Sculpture GardenAn outdoor garden or park that shows sculpture in landscaped surroundings.
Wild places and trails 5
GreenwayUsually a shared-use path along a strip of undeveloped land, often a disused railway or canal towpath.
Nature CenterA visitor center that teaches people about nature, usually in a protected open space with trails.
Nature PreserveA protected area important for its plants, animals or geology; also called a nature reserve.
Rail TrailA shared-use path on a railway right of way, typically built after the track has been removed.
Urban ForestA forest, or a grove of trees, that grows within a city, a town or a suburb.
How this list was compiled: 26 kinds of park, with what each one is. Each line follows the English Wikipedia article on that kind of park (Park, Urban park, Pocket park, Greenway, Arboretum and the others), or for common, commons, gardens and pleasance the English Wiktionary entry (CC BY-SA 4.0), read on 2026-10-03; some lines keep the source's own words. Licence: own selection; meanings from English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)