Fulton

From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).

A town in Arkansas; named for Robert Fulton.

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Fulton County, Indiana; named for its county, itself named for Robert Fulton.

Schoharie County
Schoharie County#English

A town in South Dakota; perhaps named for Robert Fulton, or for a local railroad employee.

A town in Texas; named for George Ware Fulton, a land developer in the area.

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Rock County, Wisconsin.


Inuvik

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories#English

A town in the Northwest Territories, Canada.


Morales

Bolívar Department
Bolívar Department#English

Cauca Department
Cauca Department#English


Cramlington

From earlier kramelston, of North Germanic origin, from Danish kram (“tight, narrow”) + -ton (“town”).

A town and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2776).


Morpeth

Originally recorded in the Assize Rolls of Northumberland of 1256 as Morthpath, from morð pað, ”murder path”.

A town and civil parish with a town council in and the administrative centre of Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1985).


Sumner

Tallahatchie County
Tallahatchie County#English

A small town in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.

A town and unincorporated community in Barron County, Wisconsin.

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

Trempealeau County
Trempealeau County#English

A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.


Emsworth

A small coastal town in Havant borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7405).


Lewiston

A town and village in Niagara County, New York.

A town in Bertie County, North Carolina.

A town and unincorporated community in Columbia County, Wisconsin.


Elmo

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar.
* By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.


Kirby

en-proper noun

Kirby (countable and uncountable, plural Kirbys)

Originally Kirkby, from kirk (“church”) + -by (“habitation”), "village with a church".

Caledonia County
Caledonia County#English

A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States.

Hot Springs County
Hot Springs County#English

A town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States.


Prue

Prue (countable and uncountable, plural Prues)

Prues (plural)
Prew (alternative)
Prow (alternative)

Two possible origins:
* A nickname for a valiant warrior, from Middle English prou (“brave, valiant”), itself from Old French proux.
* An Americanized spelling of French Prou.

A town in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States.


Guenther

Guenther (countable and uncountable, plural Guenthers)

A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.


Stillwater

A number of places in the United States:

A town and village therein, in Saratoga County, New York.


Laren

A municipality and town in the Netherlands.


Ealing

A town in West London, Greater London, England.


Omagh

From Irish An Ómaigh (“The Sacred (or Virgin) Plain”).

der

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A town in and the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref H 4572).


Seeland

A town in Salzlandkreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.


Malia

Alternative form: Mallia


Mangalore

Borrowed from Kannada ಮಂಗಳೂರು (maṅgaḷūru). Named after Hinduism deity Mangaladevi.

A town in the Shire of Strathbogie, Victoria, Australia.


Remington

The surname is from Rimington, from Old English rima (“edge, border”) + -ing + -tun (literally “settlement by the boundary stream”).

A town in Indiana; named for the founder of the town's general store.


Suzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅州 /肃州 (Sùzhōu).

Su-chou (alternative)
Soochow (alternative)
Suchow (alternative)
Suchou (alternative)

A town in the county-level city of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.


Tilden

A town and unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States.


Pylos

A town and ancient city in Messenia prefecture, Greece, formerly named Navarino.


Gytheio

Gythio (alternative)
Githeio (alternative)
Githio (alternative)
Gytheion (alternative)
Gythion (alternative)
Githeion (alternative)
Githion (alternative)

A town in southern Laconia prefecture, Greece


Farsala

From Latin Pharsalus, from Ancient Greek.

A town in north-central Fthiotida prefecture, Greece


Domokos

A town in northern Fthiotida prefecture, Greece


Navarino

census-designated place
census-designated place

A town and census-designated place in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.


Cassian

From Latin Cassianus, derivative of Cassius. Name of early saints.


Paterson

From a Middle English short form of Patrick + -son.


Caddo

Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh.


Hansen

en-proper noun

Hansen (countable and uncountable, plural Hansens)

From Danish Hansen and Norwegian Hansen.

A placename
A town in Wisconsin, United States


Jerusalén

A town in La Paz department, El Salvador


Chablis

A town in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France


Stratford-upon-Avon

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2054).


Domodossola

A town in Piedmont, Italy, close to the border with Switzerland.


Otranto

From Italian Otranto, from Latin Hydruntum, from Ancient Greek Ὑδροῦς (Hudroûs). Doublet of Hydruntum and hydrous.


New Amsterdam

Calque of Dutch Nieuw-Amsterdam; From nieuw (“new”) + Amsterdam (a city in the Netherlands).


Harper

A town in Maryland County, Liberia, named after Robert Goodloe Harper.


Basalt

A city and town in Bingham County, Idaho.


Fayette

Fayette
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

After Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

A number of places in the United States:

Lafayette County
Lafayette County#English

A town and unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.


Anadyr

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug#English

A port town, the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in extreme northeastern Russia.


Naryan-Mar

Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Nenets Autonomous Okrug#English

A port town, the administrative center of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.


Salekhard

From Russian Салеха́рд (Salexárd), from Tundra Nenets Саляʼ харад (Salyah xarad°, literally “house on a peninsula”).

der

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug#English

A town, the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalia), Russia, located on the Arctic Circle and the Ob Region.


leprosaria

en-noun

leprosaria (plural leprosarias or leprosariae)

leprosarias (plural)
leprosariae (plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin leprōsāria, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -āria, now usually under the influence of Spanish leprosería.

There is Christian work today at the nine government-operated Philippine leprosariae, where the personal, moral, and spiritual needs of 6,290 lepers concern the church which ministers among them.

1956, Dwight E. Stevenson, Christianity in the Philippines, page 23:

The only minor decline was in the number of leprosarias. In 1987 the Catholic Church managed two fewer leprosarias than in 1982.

1995, Satya R. Pattnayak, Organized Religion in the Political Transformation of Latin America, page 214:


Luoyang

Translingual: Luoyanggia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 洛陽／洛阳 (Luòyáng, “sunny side of the Luo River”), referring to two separate Luo rivers.

zh-l

Loyang (alternative)
Lohyang (alternative)
Lo-yang (alternative)

A town in the district of Zengdu, in the prefecture-level city of Suizhou, Hubei, China.


Kickapoo

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Kickapoo.wav

Borrowed from Spanish Kikapú, further origins are contested; an Anishinaabeg source proposes giiwigaabaw (“stand here and there”), in reference to the tribe's migratory patterns.

A place in the United States:
A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.


Walsh

en-proper noun

Walsh (countable and uncountable, plural Walshes)

Walshes (plural)
Walshe (alternative)
Walch (alternative)
Welch (alternative)
Welsh (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English Walsch, from Old English wælisċ, variant of wīelisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz.

A statutory town in Baca County, Colorado, United States.


St. John

A town in Lake County, Indiana, partly within St. John Township; named for early settler John Hack.

A town in Whitman County, Washington; named for early settler E. T. St. John.


Changsha

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃɑ/

A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.


Kodiak

From Russian Кадьяк (Kadʹjak), from Aleut qikertaq (“island”).

A town in Alaska: see Wikipedia:Kodiak, Alaska


Ossian

An anglicisation, made known by James Macpherson, of Irish Oisín, diminutive form of os (“deer”).

A town in Jefferson Township, Wells County, Indiana, United States.

Livingston County
Livingston County#English

A town in Livingston County, New York, United States.


San Rafael

/ˌsæn ɹəˈfɛl/

A town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador


Onley

Onley (countable and uncountable, plural Onleys)

From Old English ān (“only, alone”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States.


Dayton

Dayton (countable and uncountable, plural Daytons)

A variant spelling of Deighton.
* Most of the placenames are derived from the surname; or another place named Dayton, that in turn is derived from the surname.

(uncountable) A placename, from the surname:

A placename, from the surname:
A number of places in the United States
A town in Alabama.

A placename, from the surname:
A number of places in the United States
A town in Indiana.

A town in Maine; named for Thomas Day, who submitted the petition for the area to become a town.

A placename, from the surname:
A number of places in the United States
A town in New York.

A placename, from the surname:
A number of places in the United States
A town in Virginia.

A placename, from the surname:
A number of places in the United States
A place in Wisconsin
A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.

A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin; named for early settler Lyman Dayton.

A town in Wyoming; named for founder Joe Dayton Thorne.


Moana

en-proper-noun

Moana (countable and uncountable, plural Moanas)

From Hawaiian Moana (“sea, ocean”), Maori moana, and other Polynesian languages.

A small town on the West Coast, New Zealand, on the shore of Lake Brunner (known as Moana in Maori).


Halls

Halls (countable and uncountable, plural Hallses)

Lauderdale County
Lauderdale County#English

A place in the United States:
A town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.


Tübingen

A town and rural district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Neckar, with a famous university; once capital of Würtemberg-Hohenzollern


Mahé

Borrowed from French Mahé, from Malayalam മയ്യഴി (mayyaḻi), the name given to the local river and region.

A small town in Mahé district, in the union territory of Puducherry, India.


transition town

en-noun

transition town (plural transition towns)

environmentally friendly
environmentally friendly

(UK, Ireland) A town in the British and Ireland that is a member of the Transition Towns movement and is striving to develop a higher standard of living and an environmentally friendly future.


Zeist

A town and municipality of Utrecht, Netherlands.


Walhalla

The city in South Carolina was founded by German settlers, so the name in this case is probably of German origin. Compare with Valhalla.


Pollock

en-proper noun

Pollock (countable and uncountable, plural Pollocks)

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Campbell County, South Dakota.


Kolding

Southern Denmark
Southern Denmark#English

A port town and municipality of the Southern Denmark region, Denmark.


Smyrna

From Ancient Greek Σμύρνα (Smúrna), a variant spelling of Σμύρνη (Smúrnē), the Ionic Greek form of the original Aeolic Greek name Μύρρᾱ (Múrrhā, “Smyrna”). Doublet of Izmir.

New Castle County
New Castle County#English

A town in Kent County and New Castle County, Delaware.

Aroostook County
Aroostook County#English

A small town in Aroostook County, Maine.

A town and village in Chenango County, New York.

A tiny town in York County and Cherokee County, South Carolina.

Rutherford County
Rutherford County#English

A sizable town in Rutherford County, Tennessee.


Demir Kapija

A town and municipality in southeastern North Macedonia.


Demir Hisar

A town and municipality in southwestern North Macedonia.


St. Paul

A town in Indiana; named for Jonathan Paul, an early settler.

A town in Alberta, Canada, in the County of St. Paul.


Mere

# For the places in England: from Old English mere (“lake, pond”).
# For the place in Belgium: from Middle Dutch mēre, from Old Dutch meri (“lake, sea”).

A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).


Buckley

Buckley (countable and uncountable, plural Buckleys)

From Old English bucca (“he-goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to buck + -ley (“lea”).

A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2864).


Royston

From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”).

North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire#English

A town and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, on the Cambridgeshire border (OS grid ref TL3541).


Saka

Borrowed from Japanese 坂(さか) (Saka); sometimes used as a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.


Sakai

Borrowed from Japanese 堺 (Sakai), Japanese 酒井 (Sakai), Japanese 坂井 (Sakai) or Japanese 境 (Sakai).


Kamala

A town in Kathu district, Phuket Province, Thailand


Bollington

From Middle English Bolin (“River Bollin”) + tūn (“settlement”), 'the settlement on the river Bollin'.

inh

River <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">Bollin</i>

The township of Bollington (Macclesfield) has been very unhealthy the whole year. There were 50 deaths in it this quarter, 22 of which were from typhus and scarlatina.

1863, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, Twenty fourth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, page xxxi:

Collieries are established in the townships of Hurdsfield, Rainow, Bollington, Adlington, Pott- Shrigley, Lyme, Worth, Poynton, and Norbury

1808, Sir Henry Holland, Board of Agriculture and General Improvement, “Minerals”, in General view of the agriculture of Cheshire: with observations drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 14:

A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9377).


Helvetia

Helvetia
Helvetia (disambiguation)
Helvetii

A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States.


Milford

en-proper noun

Milford (countable and uncountable, plural Milfords)

Kosciusko County
Kosciusko County#English

A common place name, primarily within the British Isles and New England, often used for settlements with watermills built near fords, including:

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Van Buren Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.

Penobscot County
Penobscot County#English

A town and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine.

Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County#English

A town and census-designated place therein, in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

A town and village therein, in Otsego County, New York.

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.

Prince Edward County
Prince Edward County#English

A town in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

A small town in County Donegal, Ireland. Alternative form: Millford.


Earby

West Riding of Yorkshire
West Riding of Yorkshire#English

A small town in Pendle district, Lancashire, England, historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire.


Virrat

A town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland.


Bautzen

Although this stance is a minority concern amongst the German electorate at large, many voters in the eastern German town of Bautzen are anti-mask – despite the town recording Germany’s highest ever Covid infection rate in December 2020.

2021 September 22, “Far-right AfD campaigns on anti-vax platform in Germany’s Bautzen”, in France 24, retrieved 2024-06-23:

A town and rural district of Saxony, Germany.


Zhukov

From Russian Жу́ков (Žúkov), from жук (žuk, “beetle”) + -ов (-ov, “genitive possessive ending”).

A town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, named after Georgy Zhukov.


Pringle

* (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element.
* (borough of Pennsylvania): Named in honor of Thomas Pringle.
* (town in South Dakota): Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.

A place in the United States:
A town in Custer County, South Dakota.


Noosa Heads

From a Pama-Nyungan language term noosa ("shade, shadows") + the English term heads (“headlands”).

A coastal town and suburb, one of the three major centres of the Shire of Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, bounded in part by the Noosa River and the headlands of the Noosa National Park.


Hayes

Hayes (countable and uncountable, plural Hayeses)

*As an English locational surname, from Old English hæs (“brushwood”) (see hris) and Middle English hay (“enclosure”), heye.
*As an Irish surname, from Ó hAodha (“descendant of Aodh”).

A town in the borough of Hillingdon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1080).


Hebron

Borrowed from Latin Hebrōn, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew חֶבְרוֹן (Ḥeḇrōn), possibly via Ancient Greek Χεβρών (Khebrṓn).

A town in Boone Township, Porter County, Indiana; named for a local Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, itself named for the city in Palestine.

A town in Wicomico County, Maryland; named for the city in Palestine.

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

Washington County
Washington County#English

A town in Washington County, New York; named for the town in Connecticut.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A town and census-designated place therein, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.


Komsomolsk

Borrowed from Russian Комсомо́льск (Komsomólʹsk), from Russian комсомо́л (komsomól, “Komsomol, Young Communist League”).

bor

Комсомо́льск

der

An urban-type settlement in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.


Naxos

A town in Greece located on a homonymous island.


Tinos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τῆνος (Tênos).


Skopelos

A town in Greece located on the island of the same name.


Mtarfa

A town and local council of the Northern Region, Malta


Chard

There was to be no official opening ceremony, but nevertheless the inhabitants of Chard were not going to neglect this opportunity for a bean-feast, for they were also to celebrate the demolition of the town's East Gate.

1954 February, R. J. Sellick, “Railways to Chard”, in Railway Magazine, page 121:

A town and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district, near the Devon border. The civil parish is named Chard Town, and served by Chard Town Council. (OS grid ref ST3208).


Stornoway

From Scottish Gaelic Steòrnabhagh, itself from Old Norse Stjórnavágr (literally “rudder bay”).

A town on the Isle of Lewis in Western Isles council area, Scotland.


Klos

A town in north-central Albania, located in the Mat river valley with mountains to the east and west; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality.


Clementi

Named after Governor of Singapore Cecil Clementi.

named-after

Clementi, Singapore
Governor of Singapore


Pasir Ris

/ˌpɑːsə ˈɹɪs/

From the Malay words pasir (“sand”) and hiris (“shredding”). Literally means shredding the sand.

A town in the eastern part of Singapore.


Linden

* As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde.
* As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from several placenames called Linden or Lienden. Also shortened from Vanderlinden.
* As a Swedish surname, from lind (“lime tree”). Compare Lindeen.
* As an English surname, variant of Lindon.
* As an Irish surname, shortened from McLinden, itself a variant of McClinton.

A town in Kaiserslautern district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

A town in Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

A town in Guyana, the second-largest settlement in the country; named for Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 2nd President of Guyana.

A town, the county seat of Perry County, Tennessee; named for "Hohenlinden", a poem by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.


Colliers

The name of the town may derive from the surname Collier. The area around the town formerly hosted a large charcoal burning industry.
See also Carbonear.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Gainesville

A number of places in the United States:

A town and village therein, in Wyoming County, New York, named after Edmund P. Gaines.


Gardner

en-proper noun

Gardner (countable and uncountable, plural Gardners)

Gardners (plural)
Gardener (alternative)
Gardiner (alternative)


Gardiner

Gardener (alternative)
Gardner (alternative)

A town and census-designated place therein, in Ulster County, New York.


Jarosław

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Jarosław.

ubor

Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Subcarpathian Voivodeship#English

A town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.


Scobey

en-proper noun

Scobey (countable and uncountable, plural Scobeys)

A town, the county seat of Daniels County, Montana, United States.


Gavar

Gavarr (alternative)
Kyavar (alternative)


Balaclava

From Balaklava or the Battle of Balaclava.


Black

Black (countable and uncountable, plural Blacks)

From Middle English blak (“black”). Also a variant of Blake, from Old English blāc (“pale”) and Blanc, from Old French blanc (“white”).


Chioggia

From Italian Chioggia, ultimately from Latin Clodia, a former Roman settlement.

Chioggio (alternative)
Chiozzo (alternative)
Chiozza (alternative)

A town and commune in Venice, Veneto, Italy


Prentice

A town and village therein, in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.


Malton

Malton (countable and uncountable, plural Maltons)

Probably from Old English mæþel (“speech”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), hence a settlement where a public assembly was held.

A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7871).


Noosaville

A town and suburb in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.


Fátima

A town in Ourém municipality, Santarém district, Portugal.


Wise

A town, the county seat of Wise County, Virginia, United States.


Naubinway

From the Anishinaabe language, nawbin, "to look or gaze in wonderment".


Stavros

From Greek Σταύρος (Stávros), from σταυρός (stavrós, “cross”).

Central Macedonia
Central Macedonia#English

A number of places in Greece, including:

A coastal town in Thessaloniki regional unit, Central Macedonia, northern Greece.


Tirzah

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning "pleasant" or "she is my delight".

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.


Greenfield

Greenfield (countable and uncountable, plural Greenfields)

A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

La Crosse County
La Crosse County#English


Johnstone

Johnstone (countable and uncountable, plural Johnstones)

A town in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS4362).


Brunstatt

A commune of Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, France.


Peel

Peel (countable and uncountable, plural Peels)

Peels (plural)
Peal (alternative)
Peall (alternative)

A town in the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC2484).


Darby

Darby (countable and uncountable, plural Darbys)

From the English place name Derby, from Old Norse djúr (“deer”) + býr (“settlement”).

A number of places in the United States:


Faxe

A town and municipality of the Region of Zealand, Denmark


Potter

Potter (countable and uncountable, plural Potters)

From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.


Bethesda

From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

der

בֵּית חַסְדָּא

A town and community in Gwynedd, historically in Caernarvonshire (OS grid ref SH6266).


Parnassus

From Latin Parnāsus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός (Parnassós).

A small town in Hurunui district, north Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Mount Parnassus.


Claira

A town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France.


Corinto

A town in Morazán department, El Salvador


Wokingham

Meaning "home of the people of Wocca", apparently a Saxon chieftain. In Victorian times, it was known as Oakingham, and the acorn with oak leaves is the town's symbol.

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8168).


Penrith

First element from Cumbric pen (“head, top, summit”). Suffix probably equivalent to Welsh rhyd (“ford”).

Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness#English

A market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, historically in Cumberland (OS grid ref NY5130).

A town and western suburb of Sydney, in the City of Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.


Kemi

A town and municipality of Lapland, Finland, near the border wtih Sweden.


Pocahontas

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Pocahontas.wav

After Pocahontas, whose name is a borrowing from Powhatan Pokachantesu (literally “she is playful”).


Watts

Patronymic surname from the Middle English given name Wat, derived from Walter.

A town in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.


Twickenham

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames#English

A town in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, south-western Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex (OS grid ref TQ1673).


Colbert

en-proper noun

Colbert (countable and uncountable, plural Colberts)

From a Germanic personal name, composed of Proto-Germanic *kōlaz (“cool, cold; calm”) and *berhtaz (“bright”).

der

A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.


Zgorzelec

A town in Poland neighbouring Görlitz, Germany.


Glover

A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.


Cockburn

en-proper noun

Cockburn (countable and uncountable, plural Cockburns)

→ Translingual: cockburni

Scottish habitational surname, from Old English cocc (“cock, rooster”) + burne (“stream, brook, river”).

A small town and locality in the outback of South Australia, on the border with New South Wales.


Langdon

A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States.


Wheeler

Wheeler (countable and uncountable, plural Wheelers)

Wheelers (plural)
Whaler (alternative)
Wiler (alternative)

A number of places in the United States:


Thorne

A market town and civil parish (served by Thorne-Moorends Town Council) in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6813).


Anjou

A town and municipality in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.


Morley

en-prop

Morley (countable and uncountable, plural Morleys)

From Old English mor (“moor”) + leah (“wood”). Equivalent to moor + -ley (“lea”).

(uncountable) Any of various places in England:

A market town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD2628).


Dubois

en-proper noun

Dubois (countable and uncountable, plural Duboises or Dubois)

Duboises (plural)
Dubois (plural)
duBois (alternative)
du Bois (alternative)
Du Bois (alternative)
DuBois (alternative)

A placename
A town in Wyoming, United States


Buchanan

Buchannon (alternative)
Buchanon (alternative)

Botetourt County
Botetourt County#English

Outagamie County
Outagamie County#English

A coastal town in Grand Bassa County, Liberia.


Manning

County of Northern Lights
County of Northern Lights#English

A town in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.


Chesterfield

A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

A town in Union Township, Madison County and Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana.

A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

Hampshire County
Hampshire County#English

A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.

A town, the county seat of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.

Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County#English


Sutton

Sutton (countable and uncountable, plural Suttons)

From Old English suþ (“south”) + tun (“town”).

A number of places in England, including:

A suburban town in southern Greater London, historically in Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2664).

A town in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec.

Worcester County
Worcester County#English

A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Merrimack County
Merrimack County#English

A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

Caledonia County
Caledonia County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A town and census-designated place therein, in Caledonia County, Vermont.

A town, the county seat of Braxton County, West Virginia.


Lindau

A town and rural district of Swabia region, Bavaria, Germany, on Lake Constance.


Holyrood

From Middle English Holy Rood, Holyrode, holy-rode, holy roode, hali rode, halgorode, equivalent to holy + rood (“crucifix, cross”).
The town in Newfoundland is named after a location near Crewkerne, Somerset.

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.


Strickland

Strickland (countable and uncountable, plural Stricklands)

Habitational surname from the villages of Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger, from Old English stirc (“bullock”) + land.

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States.


Sardis

From Latin Sardīs, from Ancient Greek Σάρδεις (Sárdeis), ultimately from Lydian 𐤳𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣 (šfard). As Welsh, American, and Canadian towns, named for the ancient Lydian city chiefly in honor of its role in early Christianity. Doublet of Sart.

(historical) Former name of Sart, a town in Manisa, Turkey, The ancient capital of the Kingdom of Lydia, in western Asia Minor.

A town in Mississippi, United States and one of the two county seats of Panola County.

Henderson County
Henderson County#English

A small town in Henderson County, Tennessee.


Lockerbie

From the personal name Lockard + the Old Norse suffix byr 'farm'.

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.


Londonderry

From London + Derry, its name until the early 17th century when by decree of a charter granted by James I to a group of London merchants the current name was imposed.

County Londonderry
Londonderry (disambiguation)

Rockingham County
Rockingham County#English

A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.


Krk

From Serbo-Croatian Krk, from Latin Curicta and Ancient Greek Κυρικτική (Kuriktikḗ).

A town on Krk, Croatia, named after and located on the eponymous island.


Comox

From Lik'wala, the southern dialect of Kwak'wala kw’umuxws (“plentiful”).

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


Blackwell

Blackwell (countable and uncountable, plural Blackwells)

A town and unincorporated community in Forest County, Wisconsin, United States.


Faxon

Faxon (countable and uncountable, plural Faxons)

unk

Unexplained

A town in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States.


Stanhope

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).


Digby

en-proper noun

Digby (countable and uncountable, plural Digbies)

From Old English dīc (“dyke”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”).
The town in Nova Scotia is named after admiral Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).


Bowden

Uncertain, but the most accepted theory is that it originated from the maiden name of the wife of a surveyor named Williamson, who named the settlement along the Edmonton–Calgary Trail. Another theory states it originated from the
village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.


Abovyan

Abovian (alternative)
Apovian (alternative)
Apovyan (alternative)
Abovian (alternative)


Herndon

Herndon (countable and uncountable, plural Herndons)

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.

A town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.


Orpington

A town in Greater London, in southeastern England.


Amherst

Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

From either Old English elm or Old Norse almr (“elm”) + Old English hyrst (“wood”). The town in Nova Scotia is named after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797).

af

A town, the county seat of Amherst County, Virginia.


Oakland

A town, the county seat of Garrett County, Maryland, United States.


Tripolis

From Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “tri-: three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Tripoli and Tirebolu.

(historical) Former name of Tirebolu, a town in Turkey.


Bucalemu

From Mapudungun buca (“big, great”) and lemu (“forest”).


Bucalemo

Alternative form of Bucalemu, a town in Cardenal Caro province, O'Higgins region, Chile


McDonald

A common spelling variant of MacDonald, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Dhòmhnaill, equivalent to "son of Donald".

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Robeson County, North Carolina.


Kerobokan

A town in Badung regency, Bali, Indonesia.


Arena

A town and village therein, in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.


Carnegie

en-proper noun

Carnegie (countable and uncountable, plural Carnegies)

A place in the United States; some were named after Andrew Carnegie:


Jaflong

A hill station in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh.


Jutiapa

A town in Cabañas department, El Salvador


Sinendé

A town and commune in the Borgou department of central Benin.


Saidpur

From Bengali সৈয়দপুর (śōiẏdopur), Punjabi ਸੈਦਪੁਰ (saidpur), Hindi सैदपुर (saidpur) and Urdu سیدپور (saidpūr). All are ultimately bilingual compounds of Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid, “master”, specifically referring to the descendants of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad) + Sanskrit पुर (pura, “city”), named in honor of various Sayyids who settled or preached there.

der

Islamabad Capital Territory
Islamabad Capital Territory#English

A town in Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan.


Whitehead

en-proper noun

Whitehead (countable and uncountable, plural Whiteheads)

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).


Maclean

Maclean (countable and uncountable, plural Macleans)

Macleans (plural)
MacLean (alternative)
Mac Lean (alternative)
McLean (alternative)
Mclean (alternative)
Mc Lean (alternative)
Malean (alternative)
MaLean (alternative)
M'Lean (alternative)
Lean (alternative)
McClean (alternative)
Mcclean (alternative)
Mc Clean (alternative)
MacClean (alternative)
Macclean (alternative)
Mac Clean (alternative)
MaClean (alternative)
M'Clean (alternative)
Clean (alternative)

From Scottish Gaelic MacGilleEathain, patronymic form of a personal name meaning "servant of (Saint) John".

A town in the Northern Rivers region of northern New South Wales, Australia.


Fraserburgh

A coastal town in the north of Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ9966).


Selkirk

From Old English sǣl (“hall”) + cirice (“church”).

Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders#English

A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Selkirkshire (OS grid ref NT4728).


Fontenay-aux-Roses

Borrowed from French Fontenay-aux-Roses.

A town and commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France.


Unity

census-designated place
census-designated place

A town and census-designated place in Waldo County, Maine.

A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.

A small town in Clark County, Wisconsin.

Trempealeau County
Trempealeau County#English

A small town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.


Carrier

Carrier (countable and uncountable, plural Carriers)

A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.


Anapa

A town, a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, in southern Russia, on the Black Sea.


Marton

A town in Rangitikei District, New Zealand.


Srebrenica

/ˌsɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/

/ˌʃɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/

Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska#English

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina#English

A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.


Torquay

A town and coastal resort in Torbay borough, in southern Devon, England.

Surf Coast Shire
Surf Coast Shire#English

A town in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.


Massa

en-proper-noun

Massa (countable and uncountable, plural Massas)

The surname is from Italian Massa. Also found in southern France (see Massey).


Montner

A small town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia.


Pollestres

A town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia.


Schwarzenberg

A town in Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany.


Neustadt

en-proper noun

Neustadt (countable and uncountable, plural Neustadts)

Any of various cities and towns in Germany.

A town in Titisee-Neustadt, Baden-Württemberg.


Daniels

A town in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States, named after Daniel Johnson.


Kristinehamn

A town and municipality in Värmland county, Sweden.


Clay

Clay (countable and uncountable, plural Clays)

From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Onondaga County, New York, named after Henry Clay.

A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia.


Battenberg

Battenberg (countable and uncountable, plural Battenbergs)

From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.

Incidentally, Anthony and I once visited the town of Battenberg, on a sort of pilgrimage. It's a pretty little spot in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, although no one is much interested in talking about cake there.

2017, Damien Trench, Miles Jupp, Egg and Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir, Hachette, →ISBN:

A small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.

A town in Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.


Jamestown

Any of numerous places in English-speaking regions:

A town in the Mid North region, South Australia.

A town in Joe Gqabi district municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Joe Gqabi
w:Joe Gqabi District Municipality

A large number of places in the United States:

A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.

A small town in Jackson Township, Boone County and Eel River Township, Hendricks County, Indiana; named after its founder, James Mattock.

w:Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana

w:Eel River Township, Hendricks County, Indiana

Hendricks County
Hendricks County#English

A town in Guilford County, North Carolina.

A town in Newport County, Rhode Island; named after King James II of England.

A tiny town in Berkeley County, South Carolina.


Duck

The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.


Gävle

A town and municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden.


Halmstad

A town in Halland, in southwestern Sweden


Borlänge

A large town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.


Orsa

A town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.


Falköping

A town and municipality in Västergötland, Sweden.


Mjölby

A town and municipality in Östergötland county, southern Sweden.


Trelleborg

A town, municipality, and ferry port in Skåne County, Sweden; the southernmost municipality in Sweden.


Flen

A town and municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden.


Piteå

A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden


Sandviken

A town and municipality in Gävleborg, Sweden.


Filadelfia

A town and municipality of Caldas department, Colombia.

A town and municipality of the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy.


Caldwell

Caldwell (countable and uncountable, plural Caldwells)

Caldwells (plural)
Caudwell (alternative)
Cauldwell (alternative)

From Old English cald (“cold”) + wielle (“well, spring”).


Hitchcock

Hitchcock (countable and uncountable, plural Hitchcocks)

Hitchcocks (plural)
Hiscock (alternative)

From Hitch + -cock as a medieval male diminutive suffix.

A number of places in the United States:


Bluff

Former name: Campbelltown

A town in New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.


Sochaux

A town in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.


Yangzi

Yang-tzu (alternative)
Yang-tzŭ (alternative)

Defense Mapping Agency
Yangzi (disambiguation)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋梓 (Yángzǐ).

洋梓

a town in central China; a residential community in central China; a village in central China

Liu Cuilan at Bailing Village of Yangzi Town in Zhongxiang city has a large house of 140 meters² (about 1506 ft².) for the [Christians] gatherings, which was torn down by the policemen from Yingzhong police station in August 2001.

2001 December 17, “Brief report on the financial loss of the church in Hubei”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, archived from the original on 2014-09-23:

A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Barking

Compare older names such as Medieval Latin Berchingae (from the Domesday Book) and Latin Berecingum.

Barking and Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham#English

A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).


Gibbons

A town in Sturgeon County, central Alberta, Canada.


Christchurch

Christ Church, Oxford
Christchurch
University of Oxford

From Christ + church.
* (English town): The English town's name is from the name of a priory established in 1094.
* (New Zealand city): The New Zealand city's name is from Christ Church, Oxford, an Oxford University college, chosen by an alumnus of the University.

A coastal town and former borough in Dorset, England, formerly in Hampshire. The borough was abolished on 1 April 2019.


Lipsko

Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship#English

Lipsko (a town in the Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)


Rota

Rota (countable and uncountable, plural Rotas)

From Italian Rota, from Latin Rota, from Latin rota (“wheel”).


Gayville

From Gay + -ville, after various persons with the surname Gay.

A tiny town in South Dakota, United States.


Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, Réunion
Saint-Denis, Île-de-France

A town and commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France.


Townshend

A town and census-designated place therein, in Windham County, Vermont, United States, named after Charles Townshend.


San Antonio

Borrowed from Spanish San Antonio, named after St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), Franciscan friar.

A town and municipality of Jujuy Province, Argentina.

Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur#English

A small town in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

A town and municipality of San Luis Potosí, Mexico.


Gotha

A town and rural district of Thuringia, Germany


Devizes

From Latin. Because the castle was on the boundaries of the manors of Rowde, Bishops Cannings and Potterne it became known as the castrum ad divisas ("the castle at the boundaries"). On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the town's name is recorded as The Devyses.

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0061).


Hepburn

# Placename: From Old English hēa, definite form of hēah (“high”) + byrġen (“tumulus”).
# The romanization system is named after its inventor, James Curtis Hepburn.

A town north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.


Tuapse

A resort town in southern Russia, on the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai.


Rockstone

Upper Demerara-Berbice
w:Upper Demerara-Berbice

A town in Upper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana.


Banks

Banks (countable and uncountable, plural Bankses)

A number of places in the United States:


Bălan

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bălan.


Radcliffe

Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester#English

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7807).


Blair

Blair (countable and uncountable, plural Blairs)

Blairs (plural)
Blaire (alternative)
Blayre (alternative)

From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).


Palma

A town in Palma district, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.


Navarro

A small town in Navarro County, Texas, United States.

Buenos Aires Province
w:Buenos Aires Province

A town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.


Aguilar

Aguilar (countable and uncountable, plural Aguilars)

Borrowed from Spanish Aguilar. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.

Las Animas County
Las Animas County#English

A town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.


Rivera

A small town and former municipality in Lugano district, Ticino canton, Switzerland.


Jelgava

[The city is] at least ten Rigas and Jelgavas put together! Palace upon palace, bridge upon bridge, tower upon tower.

2014, Zigmunds Skujins, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes:

A town in central Latvia, the largest town in Semigallia.


Langley

Langley (countable and uncountable, plural Langleys)

From Old English lang (“long”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to long + -ley (“lea”).


Euston

A small town in Balranald Shire, southern New South Wales, Australia.


Newmarket

The cloak and card game are named after the English town.

A market town in Suffolk, England, with a famous racecourse.

A town in north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).

Rockingham County
Rockingham County#English

A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.


Jesolo

A coastal resort town and comune on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in the Veneto region, Italy, north of Venice.


Dunn

Dunn (countable and uncountable, plural Dunns)

Dunns (plural)
Doyne (alternative)
Dunne (alternative)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duinn (“descendant of Donn”), a byname from donn (“brown, brown-haired”).


Knapp

* As a German surname, from the noun Knabe (“boy, young unmarried man”). This is also found as the variant Knap.
* As an English surname related to the above, from the noun knave, similar to Nave.
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English knappe (“hillock”), from Old English cnæpp (“summit”), probably from the same source as Icelandic hnappur (“button”).
* As a Jewish surname, from the German adjective knapp (“scarce, tight”).

A place name:
A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.


Woodley

Woodley (countable and uncountable, plural Woodleys)

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).

A town and civil parish with a town council in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7673).


Draskhanakert

From Armenian Դրասխանակերտ (Drasxanakert).

bor

Դրասխանակերտ

A town or village in ancient Armenia, in the province of Ayrarat.


Hnarakert

A town in ancient Armenia, at the border of Gugark and Utik provinces, on the Kura River; today in Qazax district, Azerbaijan.


Tring

A market town and civil parish in Dacorum borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9211).


Weldon

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.


Corydon

From Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”).

der

A place name used for several towns in the United States.

A town, the county seat of Harrison County, Indiana, also located in Harrison Township.

Henderson County
Henderson County#English


Kakamega

A large town, the capital of Kakamega County, Kenya.


Bawku

A city, town, and municipality in northern Ghana.


Lydd

Folkestone and Hythe
Folkestone and Hythe#English

A town and civil parish with a town council, on the Romney Marsh in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0420).


Yarm

A town and civil parish with a town council in Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4112).


Crosby

Crosbie (alternative)
Crossby (alternative)
Corsby (alternative)

From Old Norse kross (“cross”) + býr (“settlement”).

A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3198).

Wilkinson County
Wilkinson County#English

A town in Amite County and Wilkinson County, Mississippi; named for lumber mill operator L. O. Crosby.


Creighton

en-proper noun

Creighton (countable and uncountable, plural Creightons)

A placename
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada


Cullen

Cullen (countable and uncountable, plural Cullens)


Cormack

From the Old Irish given name Cormac.
The town in Newfoundland is named after explorer and entrepreneur William Epps Cormack (1796 - 1868).

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

A town on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Coolidge

Limestone County
Limestone County#English

A place in the United States:
A town in Limestone County, Texas.


Cavendish

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

* (English village): Enclosure of a man named Cāfna + Old English edisc; recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB).
* (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.
* (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

named-after

census-designated place
census-designated place

A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.


Carrara

A town in Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, famous for its marble quarries


Herkimer

(surname): Possibly a corruption of Herchheimer.

A town in Herkimer County, New York, United States.


Mentone

The places in the United States and Australia from the Italian name for Menton, a town in the French Riviera on the Franco-Italian border.

A place in the United States:
A town in DeKalb County, Alabama.

Kosciusko County
Kosciusko County#English

A town in Harrison Township and Franklin Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.


Schleswig

Borrowed from German Schleswig, from the Schlei, a narrow inlet of the Baltic.

A town, the administrative seat of Schleswig-Flensburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Manitowoc County
Manitowoc County#English


Kitchener

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Kitchener.wav

A small town in the City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.


Chalcedon

From Latin Chalcēdōn, from Ancient Greek Χαλκηδών (Khalkēdṓn). See Kadıköy.

An ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor in modern Turkey, almost directly opposite Byzantium.


Bunn

en-proper noun

Bunn (countable and uncountable, plural Bunns)

* As an English surname, variant of Bone.
* As a German surname, perhaps a variant of Bunde.

A town in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States.


Bury

Bury (countable and uncountable, plural Burys)

The place name means "fort," from Old English burg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and burgh.

Bury
Bury (surname)
Bury, Greater Manchester

metropolitan borough
metropolitan borough

A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.


Oldham

Oldham (countable and uncountable, plural Oldhams)

Domesday Book
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
Oldham (disambiguation)#Other meanings

Recorded as Aldehulme in the Domesday Book, the English toponym is named with Old English eald (“old”) + Old Norse holmr (“holm, islet”).

A town and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD922053).


Rochdale

From the River Roch + dale, although recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Recedham (homestead with a hall), which became Rachedal by 1195 (valley of the River Roch).

A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.


Stockport

Stockport (countable and uncountable, plural Stockports)

From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).

der

A market town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8990).


Kimball

en-proper noun

Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.

A placename
A place in the United States
A town in South Dakota

A placename
A place in the United States
A town in Tennessee

A placename
A place in the United States
A town in West Virginia

A placename
A place in the United States
A town in Wisconsin


Somerville

A number of places in the United States:

A town, the county seat of Fayette County, Tennessee.


Orvieto

/ɔːˈvjeɪtəʊ/

/ˌɔːvɪˈeɪtəʊ/

From Italian Orvieto, from Latin Urbs Vetus (literally “old city”).

A town in the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy.


Shaftesbury

A town and civil parish with a town council in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8623).


Tecumseh

A town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.


Maotai

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 茅台 (Máotái) Wade-Giles: Mao²-tʻai², reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

MAOTAI CAPTURED BY SZECHUAN FORCES
The Szechuan pursuit forces, after recapturing Maotai, western Kweichow, crossed the Chihshui Ho (River) and we now reached Tsaochihpa, near the Kweichow-Szechuan border.

1935, The China Weekly Review, volume 72, →OCLC, page 147:

Here in Maotai, where the pungent odor of fermenting sorghum is overpowering and almost everyone works for the distillery, spiking prices have become a point of pride.

2011 February 13, Andrew Jacobs, “Fake Liquors Flow as Demand Soars for China’s Fabled Sorghum Spirit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-11-10, Asia Pacific:

Signage for China Kweichow Moutai Distillery Co. baijiu liquor lines a road at the company’s facility in the Maotai section of the Renhuai District in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China, on Thursday, April 7, 2011.

2021 August 26, Evelyn Cheng, Eustance Huang, “Chinese baijiu liquor stocks tumble amid regulatory concerns”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 2021-08-26:

A town in Renhuai, Zunyi, Guizhou, China.


Champion

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

A town and hamlet in Jefferson County, New York.


Järvenpää

A town and municipality of Uusimaa, in southern Finland.


Livingston

A town in West Lothian council area, Scotland.

Livingston Parish
Livingston Parish#English

A town, the parish seat of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.

A town, the county seat of Overton County, Tennessee, United States.


Zealandia

Te Riu-a-Māui

the hills and valleys of Maui; Maori name, meaning


Welwyn Garden City

A garden city (actually a town without city status) in Welwyn Hatfield borough, Hertfordshire, England.


Hyde Park

(Vermont town): Named after Jedediah Hyde, a landowner.

The name of various parks, neighborhoods, and municipalities.

A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Dutchess County, New York.

A town, the shire town of Lamoille County, Vermont.


O'Leary

From Irish Ó Laoghaire.
The town in Prince Edward Island is named after early settler Michael O'Leary.

OLeary (alternative)
Leary (alternative)
Learie (alternative)
O'Lear (alternative)

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island#English

A town in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.


Marne

From French Marne; in the sense of the German town and the place in Iowa named after it, from German Marne.


Woking

A town in Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0058).


Mayer

* As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses).
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English mire, a borrowing from archaic French mire (“physician”). Compare Myer.
* Also as an English name, from the noun mayor. Compare Mayor, Mair.
* As a German and Dutch surname, variant of Meyer, Myers.
* Also as a Dutch surname, variant of Maijer, from the noun maaier (“mower, reaper”).
* As a French Canadian surname, variant of Maille, itself of Breton origin, from the adjective maget (“nourished”), from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).


Elgin

en-proper noun

Elgin (countable and uncountable, plural Elgins)

US, Houston avenue; other places outside Texas

The village in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811 - 1863). The civil parish is named after the village.

A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.

A number of places in the United States:

An incorporated town in Kershaw County, South Carolina.


Skegness

From either (East) Old Norse Skeggi (personal name) or skegg (“beard”) + nes (“headland”).

A town and civil parish with a town council in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England (OS grid ref TF5663).


Hingham

A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0202).

A town and census-designated place therein, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, named after Hingham, Norfolk.

A place in the United States:
A small town in Hill County, Montana.


Tirano

A town in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy, on the border with Switzerland.


Dún Laoghaire

/dʌn ˈlɪəɹə/

From Irish Dún Laoghaire (literally “fort of Laoghaire”).

bor

(historical)

A town and port in County Dublin, Ireland.


Howell

en-proper noun

Howell (countable and uncountable, plural Howells)

From Welsh Hywel. Doublet of Huell and Powell.

Box Elder County
Box Elder County#English

A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.


Nicholson

From Nicholas + -son. Doublet of Nielsen.

A number of places and rivers in Australia:


Nichols

Nichols (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholses)

Nicholses (plural)
Nicholds (alternative)
Nicholls (alternative)
Nickalls (alternative)
Nickells (alternative)
Nickels (alternative)
Nickolds (alternative)
Nickolls (alternative)
Nickols (alternative)
Nicolls (alternative)

From Nichol, medieval vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the patronymic suffix -s.

A town and village therein, in Tioga County, New York.

A town in Marion County, South Carolina.


O'Brien

desc

उपरैनगंज<alt:उपरैन(गंज)>

⇒ Hindi: उपरैन(गंज) (uprain(gañj))

Anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Briain, meaning “descendant of Brian”.

A town in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, also known as Eduardo O'Brien.


Goodwin

From Old English gōd (“good”) + wine (“friend”).

A town in Deuel County, South Dakota, United States.


Eersel

A town and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.


Kendrick

Kindrick (alternative)
MacKendrick (alternative)
McKendrick (alternative)
MacHendrie (alternative)

A small town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.


Jamieson

A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia.


Edmondson

Crittenden County
Crittenden County#English

A town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States.


Donaldson

Hot Spring County
Hot Spring County#English

A number of places in the United States:


Kirkland

en-proper noun

Kirkland (countable and uncountable, plural Kirklands)


Kirkwood

Kirkwood (countable and uncountable, plural Kirkwoods)

Kirkwoods (plural)
Kerwood (alternative)

From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + wudu (“wood”).


Rawson

From a Middle English variant of the given name Ralph + -son.

A town in the Shire of Baw Baw, eastern Victoria, Australia.


Narragansett

/ˌnɛrəˈɡænsət/

Wiktionary’s coverage of Narragansett terms


Onondaga

Borrowed from Onondaga Onöñda’gaga’. Compare Seneca Onödowáʼga:.

A town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.


Berry

Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.

A town in Fayette County, Alabama, United States, named after Thompson Berry.

A town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.


Gates

en-prop

Gates (countable and uncountable, plural Gateses)

From gate. A topographic name for someone who lived by the gates of a medieval walled town.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Monroe County, New York, United States.

Lauderdale County
Lauderdale County#English

A town in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, United States.


Hutchins

en-proper noun

Hutchins (countable and uncountable, plural Hutchinses)

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.


Hewitt

From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.


Hewett

A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.


Wilmot

Wilmot (countable and uncountable, plural Wilmots)

Wilmots (plural)
Wilmarth (alternative)
Wilmeth (alternative)
Wilmoth (alternative)
Wilmott (alternative)

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.

Merrimack County
Merrimack County#English

A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.


Gillham

From a medieval variant of the given name William.

A town in Sevier County, Arkansas, United States.


Wilkie

Wilkie (countable and uncountable, plural Wilkies)

Wilkies (plural)
Wilk (alternative)
Wilke (alternative)
Wilkey (alternative)
Wilks (alternative)
Wilkes (alternative)

From a Scottish diminutive of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.


Fitzwilliam

A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.


Bastia

A town and port, the capital of the department of Upper Corsica, Corsica, France.


Hancock

Hancock (countable and uncountable, plural Hancocks)

From Hann + cock (a medieval diminutive suffix).

Washington County
Washington County#English

Berkshire County
Berkshire County#English

A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County#English

A town and census-designated place therein, in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

A town and village therein, in Delaware County, New York.

A town and village therein, in Waushara County, Wisconsin.


Hanson

Hanson (countable and uncountable, plural Hansons)

A town in the Regional Council of Goyder area, South Australia, Australia.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.


Dobson

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + -son.

A town, the county seat of Surry County, North Carolina, United States.

A small town near Greymouth, West Coast region, New Zealand.


Alghero

Borrowed from Italian Alghero, of unclear origin. Usually thought to derive from Medieval Latin Aleguerium (literally “stagnation of seaweed”) or Sardinian S'Alighèra, from aliga (“seaweed; rubbish”) + -era, but either way from Latin alga (“seaweed”), from Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, slimy”).

der

A city and port town in the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.


Alberton

From Albert + -ton.
The town in Prince Edward Island is named after then-prince Edward VII (1841 - 1910).

A town in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Gauteng Province
Gauteng Province#English

A town in Gauteng Province, South Africa.


Dix

A town in Schuyler County, New York, United States, named after John Adams Dix.


Dickinson

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Broome County, New York, named after Daniel S. Dickinson.

A town in Franklin County, New York, named after Philemon Dickinson.


Hixon

A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.


Hitchin

From Old English Hicce, the name of a tribe.


Townsend

en-proper noun

Townsend (countable and uncountable, plural Townsends)

Townsends (plural)
Townshend (alternative)
Townhend (alternative)
Townend (alternative)

From town + -s- + end. From Middle English toun (“hamlet, village”) + ende (“end”).

New Castle County
New Castle County#English

census-designated place
census-designated place

Middlesex County
Middlesex County#English

A town and census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

A town and census-designated place in Oconto County, Wisconsin.


McHenry

McHenry (countable and uncountable, plural McHenrys)

McHenrys (plural)
McEndree (alternative)
McHenery (alternative)
McKendree (alternative)
McKendry (alternative)

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Éinrí, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the personal name Henry.

A city and town in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States.


Hodges

Hodges (countable and uncountable, plural Hodgeses)

From Hodge, from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.

Greenwood County
Greenwood County#English

A town in Greenwood County, South Carolina.


Hotchkiss

→ Japanese: ホッチキス (“stapler”)

→ Korean: 호치키스 (hochikiseu, “stapler”)

Variant of Hodgkins from the given name Roger.

A town in Delta County, Colorado, United States.


Hawes

A small market town and civil parish (served by Hawes and High Abbotside Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD8789).


Ritchie

A town in Northern Cape province, South Africa.


Bella Coola

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A town in British Columbia, located in the valley through which this river flows.


Kolín

A town and district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.


Náchod

A town and district of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic


Kununurra

Western Australia
Western Australia#English


Loja

A town and associated province of Ecuador

Ciudad de la Inmaculada Concepción de Loja


Orestes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρέστης (Oréstēs).


Penobscot

A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.


Bungay

A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM3389).


Sorrento

From Italian Sorrento, from Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.

A town and comune of the province of Naples, Campania, Italy.


Ollagüe

A town and volcano in the northern desert of Chile.


Cayuga

Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”)

bor

A town in Indiana; named for the village in New York.


Tabor

From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).

Bon Homme County
Bon Homme County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.


Appomattox

The river was named after the Appamatuck tribe of Native Americans (whose name is from Powhatan). The town was named after the county, which in turn was named after the river.

Appomattox County
Appomattox County#English

A town, the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly known as Nebraska and Appomattox Station


Leek

Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.
Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).

Staffordshire Moorlands
Staffordshire Moorlands#English

A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856).


Chartres

From French Chartres, from Latin Carnūtēs, name of a Gaulish tribe, from a Celtic root for “rock, stone”.

Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire#English

A town, the capital of Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.


Pasadena

The place name in California is claimed to be from an Ojibwe word meaning “crown of the valley”.
The town in Newfoundland is named after a farm which was named in turn for the city in California.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Pinto

From Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”), from the white speckled pattern they used to apply to their faces.

A town in Ñuble Province, Biobío Region, Chile


Ashby

From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).

A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.


Chaplin

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

A town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.


McCormick

From Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic (“son of Cormac”), from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, which is itself from corb (“chariot”) + son. The double patronymic "arose when the meaning of Cormac began to be lost sight of". Many books of baby names also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".

MacCormick (alternative)
McCormac (alternative)
McCormack (alternative)
McCormic (alternative)
McOrmick (alternative)

McCormick County
McCormick County#English

A town, the county seat of McCormick County, South Carolina, United States.


Dumfries

From Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phris (“Fort of the Thicket”).

der

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Dumfriesshire (OS grid ref NX9776).

Prince William County
Prince William County#English

A town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States.


Falkirk

Inherited from Middle English Faukirke, from Old English fāg (“multicoloured”) + ċiriċe (“church”), a calque of Middle Irish Eiglesbrec (literally “speckled church”), probably ultimately from Cumbric. The l is first attested in the 15th century, likely a hypercorrection under Scots influence by analogy with terms such as wall (Scots wa). Compare Medieval Latin Varia Capella (“Falkirk”).

cog

A town in Falkirk council area, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, originally in Stirlingshire.


Paisley

en-proper noun

Paisley (countable and uncountable, plural Paisleys)

From Scottish Gaelic Pàislig (“pasture”).

A town, the administrative centre of Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4863).


Portishead

From the genitive singular of Old English port (“harbour”), portes + heafod (“head”), meaning "the harbour headland".

A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676).


Glendale

From glen (“narrow valley”) + dale (“valley”).

af

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Monroe County, Wisconsin.


Bourbon

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent.
The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.


Paducah

From Spanish Padoucas, from Dhegihan Pádoka or Pádoⁿka (“Comanche”).

Padouca (alternative)
Paduca (alternative)

A town, the county seat of Cottle County, in northern Texas, named for the Kentucky city.


Blount

A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.


Fulda

A town and rural district of Hesse, Germany.


Hayti

A town, the county seat of Hamlin County, South Dakota.


Abergavenny

From Welsh aber + Gavenny; the mouth of the River Gavenny.

A market town and community with a town council in Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2914).


Nola

A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.


Vò

The small town of Vò, in northern Italy, where the first coronavirus death occurred in the country, has become a case study that demonstrates how scientists might neutralise the spread of Covid-19. […] When the study began, on 6 March, there were at least 90 infected in Vò.

2020 March 18, Lorenzo Tondo, “Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there”, in The Guardian:


Singleton

en-prop

Singleton (countable and uncountable, plural Singletons)

From Old English sċingul (“shingle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.


Kipling

en-proper noun

Kipling (countable and uncountable, plural Kiplings)

A placename
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.


Khandwa

A town in Nimaad, Madhya Pradesh, India.


Ackerman

en-prop

Ackerman (countable and uncountable, plural Ackermans)

From Middle English acker (“field”) + -man. Originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.

A town, the county seat of Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States.


Leatherhead

The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan (dative case of a compound of leode and rida), meaning "place where people [can] ride [across the river]" in Anglo-Saxon). Later in the Domesday Book it was called Leret. Later forms recorded are Lereda, Ledreda, Leddrede (all second half of 12th century).


Bühl

A town in the Rastatt District, western Baden-Württemberg, Germany


Ispir

A town and district of Erzurum Province, in eastern Turkey


Srikakulam

A district and town in Andhra Pradesh, India.


Karimnagar

A district and town in Telangana, India.


Menaka

Meñaka (alternative)
Meñaca (alternative)
Menaca (alternative)

From Spanish Meñaka, from Basque Meñaka, from Basque Meña.


Wiggins

A statutory town in Morgan County, Colorado, United States.


Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains, a town in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.


Cwmbran

A new town in Torfaen county borough, Monmouthshire, Wales.


Changlun

From Malay Changlun, from Thai ช้างหล่น (literally “Fallen Elephant”).

der

Changlun (a town in Kubang Pasu district, Kedah, Malaysia)


Cahors

A town, the capital of Lot department, Occitania, France.


Bancroft

en-proper noun

Bancroft (countable and uncountable, plural Bancrofts)

From Old English bēan (“bean”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

A town in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.

Aroostook County
Aroostook County#English

A number of places in the United States:

Kingsbury County
Kingsbury County#English

A small town in Kingsbury County, South Dakota.


Belt

Belt (countable and uncountable, plural Belts)


Epsom

From Old English Ebba (“a personal name”) + hām (“homestead”).

A town in Epsom and Ewell borough, Surrey, England, known for its racecourse (OS grid ref TQ2060).

Merrimack County
Merrimack County#English

A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Epsom, Surrey.


Penrose

From Cornish penn (“head”) + ros (“moor, heathland”).

A small town in Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia.


Tirumala

A hill town and pilgrimage centre in Andhra Pradesh that houses the Sri Venkateswara temple.


Eddington

Eddington (countable and uncountable, plural Eddingtons)

From the Old English personal name Ēada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Penobscot County
Penobscot County#English

A town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

A small town in central Victoria, Australia.


Mono

Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seems to derive their name from a common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.


Eastwood

A town and civil parish with a town council in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4646).


Sèvres

[…]but at Sèvres and other places for shaping of courtly clay, the charmingest things were done,[…]

1871 June 1, John Ruskin, “Letter VI”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume I, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 9:

A town in France on the outskirts of Paris.


Monash

A place in Australia; all are named after John Monash:

A town in Berri Barmera council area, South Australia.


Antrim

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, that is the county town.


Chesapeake

From Chesepiook, from Algonquin chesepiooc.
It was widely believed for a long time that "Chesapeake" means something like "Great Shellfish Bay." However, according to Blair Rudes, linguist at the University of North Carolina, the name might actually mean something like "Great Water," or it might have been simply the name of a village at the bay's mouth.

A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.


San Martín

A town in San Salvador department, El Salvador


Abingdon

Washington County
Washington County#English

A town, the county seat of Washington County, Virginia.


Anjer

⇒ Latin: anjerensis


Risan

From Serbo-Croatian Risan, from Latin Risinium (contraction of earlier Rhizinium), from Ancient Greek Ῥίζων (Rhízōn).

coastal town in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro


Gondomar

A town and municipality of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.


Mafra

The discovery of gold in Brazil fired the religious fervour of John V (1706-50) to heights of gorgeous, archaic extravagance, immortalized in the monastery-palace of Mafra, which was built as a rival to the Escorial and Versailles by a huge army of draft labour over eighteen years.

1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 73:

A town and municipality of the district of Lisboa, Portugal, known for the Palace of Mafra.


Castletown

A town on the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC2667).


Port St Mary

A town and harbour in the south-west of the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC2067).


Port Erin

A town on the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC1969).


Painter

Painter (countable and uncountable, plural Painters)


Bobbili

Bobbili (countable and uncountable, plural Bobbilis)

Borrowed from Telugu బొబ్బిలి (bobbili).

A town in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh, India.


Tulare

From Spanish tule, itself from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“sedge, reed”).

der

A small town in Spink County, South Dakota, United States.


Inglewood

From Old English Engla, genitive plural of Engle (“the English, the Angles”) + wudu (“woods, forest”).

A rural town and former shire in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland.

A small town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.

A town in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria.

A town in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.


Ribadesella

A town and municipality of Asturias, at the foot of the river Sella.


Narbonne

A town and commune in Aude department, Occitania, southern France, formerly in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.


Orwell

From Middle English Orewelle (attested in Chaucer).

A town in Oswego County, New York, named after Orwell, Vermont.

A place in the United States:
A town in Addison County, Vermont.


Exmouth

In England, from Exe + mouth, recorded as Exanmutha c. 1025.

A town in Devon, England, at the mouth of the River Exe.


Arys

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship#English

(historical) The former name of Orzysz, a town located in what was historically East Prussia and is now in Pisz County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland


Burns

en-proper noun

Burns (countable and uncountable, plural Burnses or Burns)

* As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Burnis, Burnes, Burnhouse, containing the noun burn (“stream”).
* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Burn or Barnes.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Broin, see Byrne.
* As a Jewish surname, Americanized and shortened from Bernstein.

Alleghany County
Alleghany County#English

A place in the United States:
A town in Alleghany County, New York.

A place in the United States:
A town in Dickson County, Tennessee.

La Crosse County
La Crosse County#English

A place in the United States:
A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.

A place in the United States:
A town in Laramie County, Wyoming.


Stone

en-prop

Stone (countable and uncountable, plural Stones)

A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).


Porter

Porter (countable and uncountable, plural Porters)

French: Porter

From Middle English Porter, from porter (“porter”),
* From Old French portier (“doorman”), from porte (“door”)
* From Old French portour (“bearer”), from porter (“to carry”)

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">doorman</i>

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">bearer</i>

A town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana.

A town and village in Oxford County, Maine.

A town in Niagara County, New York, named after Augustus Porter.

A placename in the United States:
A town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.

A placename in the United States:
A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.


Bishop

en-prop

Bishop (countable and uncountable, plural Bishops)

en:Bishop (artillery)
en:Bishop (disambiguation)
en:Bishop (surname)

A town in Georgia; named for local landowner W. H. Bishop.


Yates

From the Old English surname, from yate, obsolete form of gate.

A number of places in the United States:


Walton

Variously from Old English weall (“wall”) or wealh (“Celt, Welshman”) + tūn (“settlement”)

Place names in Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA.

A city in Boone County and Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.

A town and village in Delaware County, New York, United States.


Rowe

* As an English surname, from Middle English Rowe, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Rolfe, Rough, Ralph, Rowson.

A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.


Snyder

en-proper noun

Snyder (countable and uncountable, plural Snyders)

From the Dutch surname for a tailor, from the verb snijden (“to cut”). Also Americanized from the German surname Schneider.

A town, the county seat of Scurry County, Texas.


Sewell

Sewall (alternative)
Suell (alternative)

A mining town in O'Higgins Region, Chile, that is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


Shields

Sheils (alternative)
Shiel (alternative)

Marquette County
Marquette County#English


Shipley

From Old English scēap (“sheep”) + lēah (“meadow, field, pasture”), thus a field for grazing sheep; equivalent to sheep + -ley. Compare Gateley (literally “goat lea”).

A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.


Stroud

A town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8505).

A town in MidCoast council area, New South Wales, Australia.


Starr

Starr (countable and uncountable, plural Starrs)

* As an English surname, from the noun star.
* As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Star.

A town in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States.


Stark

Stark (countable and uncountable, plural Starks)

* As a Scottish and English surname, from the adjective stark.
* As a Jewish, German, and Swedish surname, from stark (“strong”), related to the above. This surname also appears in Czech and Slovak as Štark.

A small town in Coos County, New Hampshire.

A small town in Herkimer County, New York, named after John Stark.

A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.


Stubbs

A few places in the United States:
A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.


Taft

Taft (countable and uncountable, plural Tafts)


Gore

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.

Gore District, a territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town.

A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.


Aldridge

Aldridge (countable and uncountable, plural Aldridges)

Aldridges (plural)
Arledge (alternative)
Arlidge (alternative)
Houldridge (alternative)

From Old English alor (“alder”) + wīc (“farmstead”).

A town in Walsall borough, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SK0500).


Booker

Ochiltree County
Ochiltree County#English

A town in Lipscomb County and Ochiltree County, Texas, United States.


Boone

A statutory town in Pueblo County, Colorado.

A town, the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina.


Castle

Castle (countable and uncountable, plural Castles)

en:Castle (disambiguation)
en:Castle (surname)

A town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, derived from the surname.


Carver

From Middle English Carver, Kerver, Kervor, Kervour, Kervoure, Kervere, from Middle English carver, kervere (“carver, wood-cutter, sculptor”). More at carver.

A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.


Cave

A place name:
A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.


Chalmers

A town in Big Creek Township, White County, Indiana, United States.


Crenshaw

(melon): Named after American horticulturist Edwin Crenshaw.

A town in Panola County and Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.


Crane

Crane (countable and uncountable, plural Cranes)

* As an English surname, from the noun crane.
* As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Krane.
* As a German surname, adaptation of Krahn and Krahnich.

Crane (surname)
Crane#Places
River Crane

A town in Martin County, Indiana, United States.

A town in Stone County, Missouri, United States.


Erskine

Erskine (countable and uncountable, plural Erskines)

Erskine (disambiguation)
Erskine (surname)

A town in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland, close to the River Clyde (OS grid ref NS4671).


Fairchild

Eau Claire County
Eau Claire County#English

A town and village therein, in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.


Foss

Meaning "fox". From Old Saxon fohs, fuhs, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.


Heath

Heath (disambiguation)#Places
Heath (name)

Covington County
Covington County#English

A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts


Hilton

From many placenames in England and Scotland, including:
* Old English hyll (“hill”) + tun (“settlement”); sometimes the first element is interpreted as Old English hield (“slope”) or helde (“tansy”)
* From Norman Hildun, from Old English hild (“battle”) + húnn (“bear cub”)

A town near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.


Holbrook

Holbrook (countable and uncountable, plural Holbrooks)

Holbrooks (plural)
Halbrook (alternative)
Halbrooks (alternative)

From Old English hol (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + brōc (“stream, brook”).

der

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.


Horton

en-proper noun

Horton (countable and uncountable, plural Hortons)

The majority of the English toponyms derive from Old English horh (“mud, slime”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”). The village in Gloucestershire derives from Old English heorot (“stag, hart”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”)

Bundaberg Region
Bundaberg Region#English

A town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.


Hurley

From Old English hyrne (“corner”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

A locale in the United States:
A town in Grant County, New Mexico.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A town and census-designated place therein, in Ulster County, New York; likely named for the village in Berkshire.


Golden

Golden (countable and uncountable, plural Goldens)

* As an English surname, from the adjective golden.
* As an Irish surname, from mag Ualghairg; see McGoldrick.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English


Guthrie

Guthrie (countable and uncountable, plural Guthries)

Of various origins, including:
*An anglicization of Irish gaothair;
*An anglicization of Scottish Gaelic mag Uchtre; or
*An anglicization of Irish Ó Fhlaithimh.

A small town and census-designated place, the county seat of King County, Texas.


Inman

An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.


Lockwood

Lockwood (countable and uncountable, plural Lockwoods)

From Old English loc (“lock; enclosure, fold”) + wudu (“wood”); analysable as lock + wood.

der

A town in the City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.


Newtown

Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn#English

A town in Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn community, Powys (OS grid ref SO1191).

Fairfield County
Fairfield County#English

A town and borough in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

A locale in the United States.
A town in Indiana.


Mamaroneck

/məˈmɑɹənɛk/

From an Algonquian name. Nora Thompson Dean suggested Unami mehëmalunèk (“place to dance”); Whritenour suggested the more plausible Munsee maamaalahneek (“striped stream”), from maamaaleew (“to be striped”).

Westchester County
Westchester County#English

A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, United States, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661.


Malone

A town in Franklin County, New York, which includes the village.


Maynard

en-proper noun

Maynard (countable and uncountable, plural Maynards)

From a given name, Norman Mainard, borrowed from Old Dutch meginhard from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“might”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”)

af

Middlesex County
Middlesex County#English

A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.


Mead

Meads (plural)
Meade (alternative)
Meades (alternative)

Two main origins:
* A topographic surname for someone who lived by a meadow, from Old English mǣd (“meadow”).
* A metonymic occupational surname for a brewer or seller of mead, from Old English medu (“mead”).

A statutory town in Weld County, Colorado.

A place name:
In the United States:
A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.

A place name:
In the United States:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.


Shiloh

From Biblical Hebrew שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה (shiló).

bor

שִׁילֹה \ שִׁלֹה

Shiloh
Shiloh (biblical city)
Shiloh (given name)

A number of places in the United States:


Bowen

A town and district in the General Alvear Department, Mendoza, Argentina.

A coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.


Henley

en-proper noun

Henley (countable and uncountable, plural Henleys)

From Old English hēan, weak dative case of hēah (“high”), + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Compare Hanley, which shares the same etymology.

A town in Oxfordshire, England; see Henley-on-Thames.

A town in Warwickshire, England; see Henley-in-Arden.


Clarkson

From Middle English clerc (“cleric”) + -son, equivalent to Clark + -son.

A town in Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Monroe County, New York.


Dell

Mississippi County
Mississippi County#English


Barnard

Barnard (countable and uncountable, plural Barnards)

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, originally named Bernard.


Benton

Benton (countable and uncountable, plural Bentons)

From either Old English bēan (“bean”) or *beonet (“bentgrass”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A town, the parish seat of Bossier Parish, Louisiana.

A town, the county seat of Polk County, Tennessee.


Blanchard

en-prop

Blanchard (countable and uncountable, plural Blanchards)

Blanchards (plural)
Blanshard (alternative)

Lafayette County
Lafayette County#English


Parkes

A town and local government area (Parkes Shire) in the Central West region, New South Wales, Australia.


Chisholm

en-proper noun

Chisholm (countable and uncountable, plural Chisholms)

Chisholms (plural)
Chisolm (alternative)

Scottish habitational surname, from Old English ċīese (“cheese”) + holm (“piece of dry land in a fen”) or helm (“shed, barn”).


Cummins

A town on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.


Gould

Gould (countable and uncountable, plural Goulds)

Translingual: Gouldia


Phelps

Phelps (countable and uncountable, plural Phelpses)

From Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix -s.

A town and village therein, in Ontario County, New York, United States.

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States.


Polk

Polk (countable and uncountable, plural Polks)

Washington County
Washington County#English

A town in Washington County, Wisconsin, named after President James K. Polk.


Putnam

A town and census-designated place therein, in Windham County, Connecticut.

A town in Washington County, New York, named after Israel Putnam.

A number of places in the United States:


Whitman

A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.


Redmond

A town in Utah; apparently named for red mounds near the town.

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A town in Western Australia; named for Irish nationalist leader John Redmond.


Temple

Places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Maine.

Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County#English

A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Places in the United States:
A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.


Srikalahasti

From Sanskrit श्री (śrī) + Telugu కాళహస్తి (kāḷahasti).

A holy town and municipality of Andhra Pradesh, India.


Lake

Lake (countable and uncountable, plural Lakes)

A town in Newton County and Scott County, Mississippi.

Marinette County
Marinette County#English


Palakonda

From Telugu పాల (pāla, “milky”) + కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill”).


Telluride

San Miguel County
San Miguel County#English

A town, the county seat of San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.


Monchique

A municipality and town in southern Portugal, in Faro District


Linz

A small town in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a popular tourist destination along the Rhine.


Pomona

A number of places in various countries:

A town in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.


Rayleigh

A town and civil parish with a town council in Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ8090).


Rabaul

Borrowed from Tolai baul (“mangrove”) or Rabaul (“Rabaul”)

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea#English

A town and former provincial capital in northern New Britain, Papua New Guinea.


Stade

Stade (countable and uncountable, plural Stades)

A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.


Bridgend

A town and community with a town council in Bridgend county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9080).


Meshkat

Esfahan Province
Esfahan Province#English


Draper

en-prop

Draper (countable and uncountable, plural Drapers)

English occupational surname, from the noun draper.

A town in Jones County, South Dakota; named for railroad official C. A. Draper.

A small town in Denton County, Texas, renamed from Corral City in 2016.

A town and unincorporated community therein, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin; named for Wisconsin librarian and historian Lyman Draper.


Buckie

A coastal town in Moray council area, Scotland, originally in Banffshire (OS grid ref NJ4265).


Muji

A teacher in Muji Township in Guma backed up the police officer.

2016 November 22, Eset Sulaiman, Brooks Boliek., “In China’s Xinjiang, Some Uyghurs are Forced Into a Sharecropper’s Life”, in Eset Sulaiman, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2016-11-23:

A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.


Pierson

en-proper noun

Pierson (countable and uncountable, plural Piersons)

Piersons (plural)
Peirson (alternative)
Pearson (alternative)

A placename
A town in Florida, United States


Parrott

From a Middle English diminutive form of Peter, from Old French Perrot.

Parrot (alternative)
Perot (alternative)

A small town in Terrell County, Georgia.


Peddie

Peddie (countable and uncountable, plural Peddies)

From a Middle English pet-form of Peter.

A town in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.


Robe

A town and local government area (the District Council of Robe) on the Limestone Coast of South Australia, named after Frederick Robe.


Acri

Acri (countable and uncountable, plural Acris)

A town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.


Caton

en-prop

Caton (countable and uncountable, plural Catons)

A town in Steuben County, New York, United States.


Damietta

/ˌdæmiːˈɛtə/

From Medieval Latin Damietta, from the medieval pronunciation /dɑmˈjɑdi/ of Coptic ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ (Tamiati) with influence from Latin -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), the former sometimes hypothesized to be from Egyptian dmjt (“town, harbor”), from Egyptian d-mi-i-N21:Z1 (dmj, “mooring, port; town”) + t (-t, feminine ending).


Auburn

Worcester County
Worcester County#English

Any of several towns or cities in the United States.

A sizable town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Rockingham County
Rockingham County#English

A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

A town in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County#English

A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.


Gaeta

A coastal town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Abbot

en-proper noun

Abbot (countable and uncountable, plural Abbots)

Piscataquis County
Piscataquis County#English

A town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States, named after a John Abbot.


Almond

A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.


Arden

Derived from the Brythonic ardu meaning "high"


Batchelor

Northern Territory
Northern Territory#English

A town in Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia, named after Lee Batchelor.


Beresford

Beresford (countable and uncountable, plural Beresfords)

→ French: Beresford

Habitational surname from a minor place in Staffordshire, from Old English befer (“beaver”) + ford (“ford”).
The town in New Brunswick is named after military officer and politician William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768 - 1854).

Gloucester County
Gloucester County#English

A town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.


Bethune

Bethune (countable and uncountable, plural Bethunes)

From the Norman habitational surname, from the city of Béthune, in Artois.

Kit Carson County
Kit Carson County#English

A town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States.

A town in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States.


Bingham

en-prop

Bingham (countable and uncountable, plural Binghams)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old English Bynna (given name) + -ing + hām (“home, property”), or from Old Norse bingr (“stall, bed”) + hām.

A town and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK703343).

A town in Somerset County, Maine; named for Pennsylvania statesman William Bingham.


Bingley

en-proper noun

Bingley (countable and uncountable, plural Bingleys)

From the Old English personal name Bynna + -ing (“belonging to”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).


Bloomfield

Bloomfield (countable and uncountable, plural Bloomfields)

A number of places in the United States:

A town, the county seat of Greene County, Indiana.

A town and village therein, in Walworth County, Wisconsin.


Bowes

A town in the Mid West region of Western Australia.


Breckenridge

/ˈbɹɛkənɹɪd͡ʒ/

A town, the county seat of Summit County, Colorado, United States.

A village and town in Gratiot County, Michigan, United States.

A city and town in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States.

A town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States.


Broughton

Broughton (countable and uncountable, plural Broughtons)

From Old English beorg (“mountain, hill”) or brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

North Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire#English

(uncountable) A number of places in the United Kingdom:

A small town and civil parish with a town council in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SE9609).