Stephanie92
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Its forest in Irish, (Foraoise) I wanted a forest town and I'm Irish, my sister actually came up with it though.
What’s the story behind your town name?
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I've never been good at coming up with town names. My very first town in Wild World I named Everhue after hours of thinking on it because I wanted to picture a town full of vibrant colors that never faded, I thought, at the time, that it was the best name ever, but when I booted up my Wild World cartridge again, I changed my mind and niw thought the name was super cringey. I don't know what I'd rename it to, though. Probably starfall, since I like how the name sounds and because Wild World introduced the observation room.
Then I played the original Animal Crossing and named it Ninten as in Nintentown, which is also awful, but I thought at the time it was cool and it went well because of all the nes games you could unlock within it.
I never deleted any of the save files, though, despite not liking any of the names. Firstly because I wouldn't like to restart all over agian and unlock everything and get the villagers I like add patterns again, ect. It's a really long time consuming process and secondly I got used to them, so it's like a time capsules I can turn on and see a piece of my past self.
Then I played the original Animal Crossing and named it Ninten as in Nintentown, which is also awful, but I thought at the time it was cool and it went well because of all the nes games you could unlock within it.
I never deleted any of the save files, though, despite not liking any of the names. Firstly because I wouldn't like to restart all over agian and unlock everything and get the villagers I like add patterns again, ect. It's a really long time consuming process and secondly I got used to them, so it's like a time capsules I can turn on and see a piece of my past self.
MarzipanDragyn
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My Wild World town was called Fayette, because middle school me didn't realize she didn't have to use the place she actually lived for the name.
New Leaf's Calavera got its name from the new house we moved into, which my mother had named Casa Calaveras (admittedly, I was having trouble coming up with a name
': D ).
New Leaf's Calavera got its name from the new house we moved into, which my mother had named Casa Calaveras (admittedly, I was having trouble coming up with a name
': D ).
succulents
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I remember my great uncle talking about how much I reminded him of Anne, from the book Anne of Green Gables. I was never really interested in the book, until he had passed away. I decided to finally try reading it and oh boy, did I love it. I fell in love with Anne and Avonlea, the town she lived in. Pretty sure I read the entire book within two days. So recently, when I restarted my town I named it after that town
Pikachueviaseedling
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I had the idea of having a town that was pretty tropical, so I thought the name Haylei would be cute. It's a mix of Haven and Lei. It was originally gonna be called Halei but I didn't like that name, so I called it Haylei instead. I'm pretty sure Haylei is actually a real name though...
I'm absolute trash at naming things. So I went on fantasy town generator and just hit it a couple dozen times until I found one that sounded good. I actually really like my current town name I think I'll carry it over to New Horizons too.
Mayor Monday
Senior Member
My town's name is Lucille. It was the name of a city in the short story I was writing at the time. In fact, a few minor aspects of my town is inspired by it.
Corndoggy
No wait, its at least a c+
right before i got my copy of new leaf we had a project at school were we had to create a town and make a set of laws. However, since i am so uncreative, i stole Cocoloco off of my friend, its such a cute name and really fits a nice tropical theme. I will probably use it again when i start new horrizons haha
kyle on saturn
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I wanted to name my town Planeterium, but there was a character limit, and I wanted something that didn’t sounding it had a theme because I was unsure of a theme to do.
AutumnWillow
Senior Member
It was the name of the town I used to live in.
SleepingLiving
Senior Member
My first town name was 'asdboo', it was a keyboard smash I think. Nevertheless I still have pictures of it. It was a weedy, unkept mess.
Originally, a year and a half ago, I said on this thread ' My towns of Bermuda and Syntoia have no special meaning behind them ' but boy has that changed, at least for Bermuda.
Didn't realise it at the time, but Bermuda would be a name I would begin to fixate on, now I call my main pokemon 'Bermuda', I want a triangle tattoo bc Bermuda Triangle (haha laugh funny) and I name ANY AC town I start 'Bermuda'. Couldn't imagine not doing stuffs like that now. Idek why I fixated on Bermuda, but hey ho,,, still think its fun that like,, when ACNH came out people /knew/ I was gonna name the town Bermuda before anything else, it was just a given.
Didn't realise it at the time, but Bermuda would be a name I would begin to fixate on, now I call my main pokemon 'Bermuda', I want a triangle tattoo bc Bermuda Triangle (haha laugh funny) and I name ANY AC town I start 'Bermuda'. Couldn't imagine not doing stuffs like that now. Idek why I fixated on Bermuda, but hey ho,,, still think its fun that like,, when ACNH came out people /knew/ I was gonna name the town Bermuda before anything else, it was just a given.
old thread but my first game was wild world and with that, i reset pretty frequently since i was just a kid and was having fun. i don’t remember all of the town names that i chose but they were just typical kid nonsense, from fun city to naming it after irl places, such as new york c’:
with new leaf, i was still pretty young and so my town names weren’t super spectacular here, either. my first town’s name was cloudluv which was just,,, a typical 5th grade concoction LMAO. i named my 2nd town clarity which was,, much better than cloudluv imo but still not great lmao. and lastly, i was continuously resetting my 3rd town but i believe the name i had the last time i played was wintry, since i wanted to turn it into a winter-themed town aha.
and more recently, with new horizons, my island name is axolotl; it was originally going to be apricity but i read @/sierra’s “island names for sale” thread prior to the game coming out and one of the names listed was axolotl and immediately, i was obsessed with it; i think this is the first and only time i’ve ever been truly happy with the name i chose for something aha
with new leaf, i was still pretty young and so my town names weren’t super spectacular here, either. my first town’s name was cloudluv which was just,,, a typical 5th grade concoction LMAO. i named my 2nd town clarity which was,, much better than cloudluv imo but still not great lmao. and lastly, i was continuously resetting my 3rd town but i believe the name i had the last time i played was wintry, since i wanted to turn it into a winter-themed town aha.
and more recently, with new horizons, my island name is axolotl; it was originally going to be apricity but i read @/sierra’s “island names for sale” thread prior to the game coming out and one of the names listed was axolotl and immediately, i was obsessed with it; i think this is the first and only time i’ve ever been truly happy with the name i chose for something aha
princess.looking.for.frog
rim tim tagi dim
Mine is New York because back when I played WW, I named the town after my sister’s favourite city; New York! I am also not super about changes and I love keeping things the same, hence keeping the name through to New Leaf.
Your Local Wild Child
Matty the smarting-nosed “reindeer”
Arctin came from my sister from when she named our first CF town- I believe it was inspired by winter (as we got the game for Christmas that year).
Evwirt I kinda came up with on the spot on New Leaf. I had wanted to come up with a magical-sounding name, and Evwirt fit the bill IMO! I just transferred the name to my SH island once I got my lite.
Evwirt I kinda came up with on the spot on New Leaf. I had wanted to come up with a magical-sounding name, and Evwirt fit the bill IMO! I just transferred the name to my SH island once I got my lite.
SmrtLilCookie
Shh... don't wake the sleeping hedgie
My island’s name is Erinacea. New Horizons is the first AC game I’ve ever played, so I didn’t have any old nostalgic names to draw from. Instead, I took inspiration from my all-time favourite animal group; hedgehogs. The family name for the animal group containing hedgehogs is “Erinaceidae”. This gave me to basis of my island name.
The other name I had considered for my island was “De Novo”, which is a term in biological sciences meaning “from the beginning, anew”. It would’ve been an appropriate name for a game centered around developing a deserted island, but I thought it sounded a bit pretentious and went with my first choice
The other name I had considered for my island was “De Novo”, which is a term in biological sciences meaning “from the beginning, anew”. It would’ve been an appropriate name for a game centered around developing a deserted island, but I thought it sounded a bit pretentious and went with my first choice
Dunquixote
Mrrrroooooow! T-Treasure...
I’m terrible at coming up with names for anything so in both NL and NH, I named my town/island not only on a location in another game, but they both ended up being named the same thing - Skyhold from Dragon Age Inquisition. I was considering naming it after a place in FFX or XII (in spite still needing to finish playing it), or after a place in One Piece. I ended up going with Skyhold since I really wanted to use some Dragon Age designs that I made in HHD (and qr patterns) or that someone else made and that I had been using in HHD (didn’t know that I needed a subscription or once subscribed, after i downloaded the codes that I can’t hang up any of the designs at Able’s for my villagers to use). I was planning on trying to dedicate my whole island to Dragon Age, but I’ve actually started to incorporate ideas that were inspired by other games/anime/etc. as well now.
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