Ultimate List of Place & Thing Names

Find the perfect name for any place or thing with this curated list of evocative, memorable, and genre-spanning names. Great for worldbuilders, GMs, and writers seeking inspiration.

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What This Resource Is
1

Historical Name Parts

Common town suffixes, uncommon place parts, and country suffixes from real-world etymology to ground your fictional names.

2

Structural & Tangible Words

Power structures, buildings, geographical terms, animals, materials, plants, people, items, and body parts—organized for quick reference.

3

Atmospheric Words

Evocative words sorted by feeling—unpleasant and dangerous vs. pleasant and safe—to set the tone of any location or object name.

4

Fantasy Word Parts

Bonus prefixes, suffixes, and syllables that sound fantastical—combine them to generate original place and thing names.

Historical Words

🏙️ Common Town Suffixes, English
Settlement-related
-ton, -tun, -ston
Farm, estate, or settlement (Old English 'tūn')
-ham
Home, homestead, or settlement
-by, -bie
Village or farmstead (Norse)
-worth, -worthy
Enclosure or homestead
-thorpe, -thorp
Secondary settlement, outlying farmstead (Norse)
-stow, -stowe
Place, especially a holy or meeting place
-stoke
Dependent settlement, place
-ville
Town or large settlement (French)
-stead
Place, site, or enclosed pasture
-toft
Homestead, plot of land
-ing
People of, place of the people of (e.g., Reading - 'place of Rēada's people')
Fortification-related
-borough, -boro, -burgh, -bury, -berry
Fortified place, fortress, manor (Old English 'burh')
-caster, -cester, -chester
Roman fort (from Latin 'castrum')
-wall
A wall, often Roman
-hold
A holding or governed area
Building-related
-minster
Large church or monastery
-kirk
Church (Norse/Scottish)
-church
A church
-chapel
A chapel
-grange
An outlying farm belonging to a monastery, a barn
-hall
Place with a hall or manor
-heim
Home (Germanic)
-cot, -cott
Cottage, small dwelling
-yard, -garth
Enclosed ground, enclosure
Hill-related
-don, -down
Hill, open upland country (Old English 'dūn')
-mont
Mountain or hill (French)
-cliff, -cliffe
Location by a cliff
-low, -law
Hill or mound (Old English 'hlāw')
-over
Ridge or bank
-edge, -rigg, -rig
Ridge
-pen
Hill or headland (Celtic)
-bre, -bryn
Hill (Celtic)
-tor
A rocky peak or hill
-head
A headland or the upper end of a valley/river
Valley-related
-dale, -dal
Valley (Norse)
-comb, -combe, -coombe
Small, deep valley or hollow (Old English 'cumb')
-hope
Small enclosed valley
-dean, -den
Valley (Old English 'denu')
-bottom
Valley floor or hollow
-glen, -glyn
Narrow valley
-slade
A small valley or dell
Water-related
-ford, -forth
River crossing
-pool, -pwll, -pol
Body of water, pool, harbor
-port, -porth
Harbor or port
-haven
Harbor or safe place
-bourne, -burn
Stream or small river
-beck, -bach
Stream (Norse/Welsh)
-well
Well or spring
-ness
Headland or promontory (Norse)
-mouth
Mouth of a river
-fleet
Creek or inlet
-ey, -ea, -y, -ay, -eg, -eig
Island (Norse/Old English)
-mere, -mar
A lake or pool
Countryside-related
-field
Open country, cleared land
-wood, -shaw, -hurst, -hirst
Wooded area, thicket, wooded hill
-lea, -ley, -leigh, -ly
A woodland clearing or meadow
-meade
Meadow
-moor
An area of open, uncultivated upland
-heath
An area of open uncultivated land (with heather, gorse etc.)
-holt
A wood or copse
-chase
Hunting area
-grove
Small group of trees
-land
Defined area or estate
-piddle, -puddle
Marsh or fen
Infrastructure-related
-bridge
A bridge
-street, -streat
A paved road, often Roman
-wich, -wych, -wyke, -wick
Specialized farm, trading place, or bay (e.g., salt production)
-gate
Street or road (Norse 'gata')
-cross
Crossroad or monument
-way
Place on a route or road
-cheap, -chipping
Market

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