What’s the story behind your town name?

[salty-]

So Fairlin's name came from a story I was writing (not really a book or anything, it was just kind of a personal story) and the whole country was called "Fairlin" because the story took place in basically a twisted fairytale world that resided in a book. Although my town itself has no themes that relate to the story and the characters in my town aren't meant to be the ones from the story, I thought I would honor the lil series I had going for almost 4-5 years now

 

[lPeachy]

Lorien is a lord of the rings reference to Lothlorien, the elven forest realm of middle earth. I?ve Just always loved the sound of it so I used it for my main town even though it?s just a plain ol? non-magic town.

Aconite was picked specifically with a witch themed town in mind, it?s another name for Wolf?s Bane or Monkshood, a poisonous flower with a lot of ancient uses and generally associated with some witchcraft as well.

 

[boring]

My towns of Bermuda and Syntoia have no special meaning behind them, but Va is a different story.
Va is the name of a song from a game that absolutely changed me called 'the Beginners Guide'. In the chaos of the story, the part when 'Va' played was a pause button. It was a sudden calm, almost eerie in comparison to the rest of the game, but I loved it nonetheless.
The town of Va is my own pause button, a perfect world while everything else is blurred and scary.

 

[ShizukaJoestar]

Morioh was named after a fictional town in Japan for an anime called JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.

Story: Josuke Higashikata decided to have alternate world where no one gets hurt, killed or betrayed. He assumed his role as mayor and invited Okuyasu Nijimura, Koichi Hirose and his adopted baby sister Shizuka Joestar to live in this alternate Morioh. Life has been easier since then. The villagers living there have been the best residents to the entire town.

 

[buniichu]

Konoko is based on a small village, surrounded by many cherry blossom trees, with tons and tons of beautiful flowers that matches their greatest guardian of the village, known as giant cherry blossom that sits in the middle of the town, guarding everything, and giving the village peace and silence. By this very day, A daughter was born and celebrated as mayor, to keep the town going. By her name was Mayor Keely, along with many wonderful villagers who help around the village.

 

[Tobyjgv]

I remember that I wanted to do something with a Japanese name, and I wanted to do something foresty/cute. I thought of totoro, and wanted to partially base my town off of this amazing movie. I remembered hearing about the forest totoro was based off of, it was called sayama. this name seemed perfect, so that's how I got my current name! A short but sweet little story

 

[bumblybee]

I started a new town recently and I named it Chroma, because it is a rainbow themed town, and chroma means color. I have a bunch of villagers picked out that are all colors of the rainbow, and different sections of the town are filled flowers and public works projects that go with the color theme.

 

[duckykate]

Windfall, like the island from zelda!

 

[iimmv]

My town name is actually sooo bad...
When I used to play terraria and minecraft, my main worlds would always be named "Soriku." I named it that as a combination of Sora and Riku from Kingdom Hearts, because I thought they were both cool. Keep in mind I was super young and I had barely even played Kingdom Hearts. I only played the GBA game or something. Little did I know at the time that combining two characters' names like that often implies a fan shipping of those two characters... so if you google Soriku you will see some very "interesting" results. I honestly didn't even realize this until a few days ago, at 20 years old... so my New Leaf town was named Soriku 7 months ago because it has always been a habit to name my main world Soriku! eek

 

[Hat']

Well I love space and all that and... idk I feel a strong attraction towards the star named V?ga... I just love it!
So I named my town like that.

 

[dizzy bone]

My very first town Kenka was named after an izukaya in the neighborhood I lived in. I had ordered the game and I found it arrived on my doorstep that night after I got back from Kenka with my friends. So it was kinda a drunken in the moment naming. I reset that town after 3 years and made Tinytree because I wanted to start a new town based on a natural forest. I had an idea that I wanted to keep my town tree small for my dream address, as well as keep little trees everywhere. But then I played it for too long and the town tree grew big anyways :3 My second copy is called Borei, which means a great country in Khmer, but now it?s also used to refer to gated communities. I chose my map specifically to have a river that separated a small chunk of land where I would put all my residents in a more developed area, so it?s like a little borey, while the rest of town is a natural forest.

 

[iimmv]

My very first town Kenka was named after an izukaya in the neighborhood I lived in. I had ordered the game and I found it arrived on my doorstep that night after I got back from Kenka with my friends. So it was kinda a drunken in the moment naming. I reset that town after 3 years and made Tinytree because I wanted to start a new town based on a natural forest. I had an idea that I wanted to keep my town tree small for my dream address, as well as keep little trees everywhere. But then I played it for too long and the town tree grew big anyways :3 My second copy is called Borei, which means a great country in Khmer, but now it?s also used to refer to gated communities. I chose my map specifically to have a river that separated a small chunk of land where I would put all my residents in a more developed area, so it?s like a little borey, while the rest of town is a natural forest.

Wow! I just had the same type of idea recently- a town that is actually an Animal Forest. I am super curious to see how you did it to make it natural looking. Would you mind sharing the dream code?

 

[MayorMissy]

Frosting is my favorite thing to put on sweet foods.

 

[Sweetley]

Originally, I wanted to call my town Blackpool, but thanks to the character limit, it didn't fit. Since I didn't wanted to remove a letter, I was thinking for another name that ends with "pool". And after a while, I came up with Rosepool.

 

[TSquared]

"Home" is what I use every time I'm given the option to name a town/farm/ranch/what-have-you. It's as simple as wanting to harken back to simpler, more nostalgic times - "Home is where the heart is", after all.

 

[CasualWheezer]

I was trying to call my town "Henriville" but of course there was the character limit, so I just decided to remove some letters and call it "Henville" and I guess that was good enough for my town.

 

[HistoryH22]

My town name background is pretty straightforward: Historia. I'm a historian, so it just felt right to name my town after my number one passion.

 

[Halloqueen]

My main town is named Haunton. It's a combination of the word haunting and the "-ton" you find in place names like Boston, Houston, and so on. It's a horror-themed town and it was the first thing that came to me that both seemed fitting and worked within the character limit they give you for names.

My hybrid circus/magic show-themed town is called Mesmeri, based of course around the word mesmerize. I went with that because both circuses and magic shows are forms of entertainment, and good entertainment will grab your attention and keep you interested in what happens. So, in a way it's saying that this show is so good that you won't want to look away.

 

[SherlockLina]

I named my town after Anapolis maryland, bc my middle name is ana! And anapolis is just plain out kewllll!!!!!!!

 

[skeletontape]

My town is called Crescent because, uh, I love the moon. I draw moons a lot in my art so it felt like a natural choice for a motif to potentially use in my town.