Place Name Boy Names
691 place name boy names with meanings, U.S. popularity, and audio pronunciation on every page.
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There is a reason so many boys are walking around with a map in their name. A place carries weather, distance and a bit of grit, and parents searching for place name boy names are usually after exactly that texture — something that sounds lived-in rather than looked-up. The American-road tier does it best. Dallas is broad-shouldered and instantly familiar. Denver comes with thin mountain air and an easy grin. Dakota keeps its plains-and-prairie hush, and Remington is the longest, most cinematic of the bunch, with a ready-made nickname waiting inside it.
Cross the ocean and the mood shifts from open road to old stone. Rome is one syllable of empire. Cairo is warm and rhythmic and still genuinely uncommon in the U.S. Zaire has a river behind it and a sound unlike anything else on the list. For families who want the map buried a little deeper, the English-place surnames do the quiet work: Preston, Clayton, Sutton and Paxton all started as somewhere before they became someone, and none of them will ever need spelling twice.
Every name below opens to its full page — a sourced meaning, the place it comes from, its U.S. popularity, and a clear audio pronunciation so you can hear it before you fall for it.
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Bedford#12588 in the U.S.Bedford is an English place-name and surname from Old English, usually read as 'Beda's ford', t▶Bethel#12598 in the U.S.From the Hebrew Beth-El, 'house of God' — the place where Jacob dreamed of a ladder reaching to▶Cannan#12600 in the U.S.Cannan is a spelling in the Canaan/Cannan family; Canaan is a biblical land name often read as ▶Cardiff#12603 in the U.S.Cardiff is the capital city of Wales; its Welsh name (Caerdydd) is generally read as 'fort on t▶Daiton#12605 in the U.S.A respelling of Dayton, an English surname and place name meaning 'Day's town' or 'bright, sunn▶Caxton#12607 in the U.S.Caxton is an English surname from a place name, likely 'Kak's farm or settlement.' It is famous▶Brayten#12625 in the U.S.Brayten is a modern respelling of Brayton, an English surname taken from village names. The lik▶Corran#12657 in the U.S.A Scottish/Irish name, from Gaelic 'corran' ('a spear' or 'a sickle-shaped point of land'); als▶Creede#12662 in the U.S.A spelling of Creed, from the word 'creed' ('a statement of belief; faith'). Also a historic si▶Drezden#12673 in the U.S.Drezden is a phonetic respelling of Dresden, the historic city in eastern Germany on the Elbe r▶Berton#12713 in the U.S.Berton is a spelling variant of Burton, from an English place and surname meaning 'fortified en▶France#12738 in the U.S.France, as a boy's name, is either the place name of the country France or a surname and short ▶Garfield#12752 in the U.S.An English surname and place-name, likely 'triangular field' (Old English 'gara', 'triangular s▶Hebron#12757 in the U.S.A biblical place-and-personal name, from the Hebrew for 'association; alliance; company.' Hebro▶Goshen#12769 in the U.S.From the biblical place name Goshen, the fertile region of Egypt where Israel settled in the ti▶Deaton#12778 in the U.S.From the English surname Deaton, a habitational name from a place likely meaning 'valley settle▶Devone#12810 in the U.S.Devone is a respelling of Devon, the English county whose name comes from the Dumnonii, an anci▶Germany#12889 in the U.S.Germany is the English name of the European country, occasionally borrowed as a rare given name▶Gresham#12900 in the U.S.From the English surname Gresham, taken from a Norfolk place name meaning 'grazing homestead' o▶Hinton#12947 in the U.S.From the English place name and surname Hinton, usually from Old English heah ('high') plus tun▶Glendale#12948 in the U.S.Glendale is a place-name and surname built from 'glen' (a narrow valley, from Gaelic gleann) an▶Jerrico#12956 in the U.S.Jerrico is a variant spelling of Jericho, the storied Canaanite city named in the Bible. The pl▶Iona#12974 in the U.S.Iona is the name of a small island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, famous for the abbey founded b▶Kadian#13170 in the U.S.Kadian reads as a modern American extension of Kaden/Cadien, given a longer -ian ending. It is ▶Kairoh#13185 in the U.S.Kairoh is a modern American coinage on Kai with an -oh finish, and it plainly echoes the place-▶Kanata#13202 in the U.S.As a Japanese given name, Kanata is often read as 'distant; far away' — a horizon word — though▶Kanton#13206 in the U.S.A modern American coinage: a K-spelling of Canton, a word for a district or region (and a U.S. ▶Kashel#13214 in the U.S.A modern American coinage, most easily read as a K-spelling of Cashel, the Irish place name fro▶Kashmeir#13216 in the U.S.A modern American respelling of Kashmir, the Himalayan region whose name also gave English the ▶Kashmire#13217 in the U.S.A modern American respelling of Kashmir, the Himalayan region behind the English word cashmere.▶Kashmyr#13218 in the U.S.A modern American respelling of Kashmir, the Himalayan region whose name English took for cashm▶Kauai#13225 in the U.S.Kauai is the name of the oldest of the main Hawaiian islands, sometimes called the Garden Isle.▶Lakelan#13245 in the U.S.A modern American coinage in the nature/place mold, echoing Lakeland and the word 'lake' with a▶Machias#13252 in the U.S.Machias reads two ways, both uncertain: as a place-name in Maine (from an Algonquian word said ▶Lasalle#13302 in the U.S.Lasalle comes from the French la salle, 'the hall' or 'the room,' originally a place or occupat▶Kingstynn#13307 in the U.S.A modern respelling of Kingston, an English place name and surname from Old English cyning ('ki▶Kiowa#13310 in the U.S.Kiowa is the English name of the Kiowa Tribe, a Native American nation of the Southern Plains, ▶Klayten#13318 in the U.S.A modern respelling of Clayton, an English place name and surname from Old English claeg ('clay▶Marland#13346 in the U.S.Marland is a given-name use of an English surname and place-name, most plausibly from Old Engli▶Lorien#13409 in the U.S.Lorien comes from J.R.R. Tolkien's invented Elvish: Lorien is the shortened name of Lothlorien,▶Loudon#13411 in the U.S.Loudon is a Scottish surname from Loudoun in Ayrshire — a place-name usually read as 'beacon hi▶Lucchese#13412 in the U.S.Lucchese is the Italian word for a person from Lucca, the walled Tuscan city — a surname of ori▶Lunden#13415 in the U.S.Lunden reads chiefly as a respelling of London, the great city whose ancient name, Londinium, h▶Marsden#13464 in the U.S.Marsden is an English surname from places of that name in Yorkshire and Lancashire, from Old En▶Masis#13469 in the U.S.Masis is the Armenian name for Mount Ararat, the great twin-peaked mountain that stands as a na▶Maxfield#13487 in the U.S.Maxfield is an English surname from the Cheshire place-name Macclesfield, understood as 'Macca'▶Mictlan#13494 in the U.S.From Nahuatl Mictlan, 'the place of the dead' — in Aztec belief the underworld, the deepest rea▶Milani#13521 in the U.S.Milani is an Italian surname meaning 'from Milan', used as a given name. In the U.S. it is far ▶Leyden#13540 in the U.S.Leyden reads as a place-name from Leiden, the historic Dutch city (an anglicized spelling), fit▶Ness#13598 in the U.S.From the Scottish and northern English 'ness', a headland or promontory (from Old Norse nes) — ▶Owsley#13673 in the U.S.From an English place name and surname ending in Old English -leah, 'wood; clearing.' The first▶Romney#13701 in the U.S.Romney comes from Romney Marsh and the town of New Romney in Kent, England; the place-name is t▶Scottland#13724 in the U.S.Scottland is a respelling of Scotland (with a doubled 't'), the country whose name means 'land ▶Selby#13728 in the U.S.Selby is an English surname and Yorkshire place-name, from Old Norse elements meaning 'willow f▶Riyadh#13746 in the U.S.From the Arabic Riyadh, 'gardens; meadows' (plural of rawdah, 'garden; meadow') - also the name▶Rocklin#13752 in the U.S.An English surname and place name (a city in California), read as 'rock' plus a -lin/-ling endi▶Royalton#13801 in the U.S.Royalton reads as Royal plus the English place-name ending -ton ('town; settlement') — so 'roya▶Saket#13801 in the U.S.Saket is a Sanskrit name whose best-known sense is as an ancient name of the city of Ayodhya, l▶Royden#13802 in the U.S.From an English surname and place name, usually explained as Old English ryge ('rye') plus dun ▶Trentan#13896 in the U.S.Trentan is a variant spelling of Trenton, the New Jersey city name that became a boy's given na▶Sitka#13899 in the U.S.A place-name from Tlingit Sheetka, the Alaskan town on Baranof Island, and the Sitka spruce nam▶Slaton#13904 in the U.S.An English surname and place-name, generally read as 'slate town' or from Old English slaed-tun▶Sheron#13935 in the U.S.Sheron is a respelled form of Sharon, the biblical plain of Israel whose name means 'flat, fert▶Tokyo#13986 in the U.S.A place name given as a first name: Tokyo, the capital of Japan, whose own name means 'eastern ▶Trentyn#14022 in the U.S.Trentyn is a modern respelling of Trenton — an English place name, from the River Trent, later ▶Tyndale#14046 in the U.S.Tyndale is an English surname from Tynedale, the valley of the River Tyne in Northumberland. It▶Staten#14053 in the U.S.Staten is used as a modern American given name drawn from Staten Island in New York, itself nam▶Tacoma#14070 in the U.S.A place name — the Washington city Tacoma, from a Coast Salish (Lushootseed) word tied to Mount▶Venicio#14070 in the U.S.An Italian and Spanish name usually read as 'of Venice; Venetian', from Latin Venetius, the nam▶Zanoah#14070 in the U.S.A biblical place name in the Book of Joshua, a town in the hill country of Judah; the Hebrew is▶Woodford#14084 in the U.S.From English place names meaning 'the ford by the wood' — a river crossing beside woodland — fo▶Vinton#14087 in the U.S.An English surname from a place-name, most likely 'Vinna's farmstead' or 'the settlement by the▶Waco#14097 in the U.S.A place-name from Waco, Texas, which takes its name from the Waco (Hueco) people, a Wichita-aff▶Waverly#14106 in the U.S.From the English place-name Waverley, usually read as 'meadow of quivering aspens' — from Old E▶Wick#14114 in the U.S.From Old English wic, 'dwelling; village; farm' (from Latin vicus) — the element behind hundred▶Wilford#14116 in the U.S.An English surname from a place-name, usually read as 'the willow ford' — the river crossing by▶Willoughby#14119 in the U.S.From English place-names in Lincolnshire and elsewhere, combining Old English 'willow' with the▶Tehran#14122 in the U.S.Tehran is the name of the capital city of Iran, and as a given name it is a place name adopted ▶Tejon#14124 in the U.S.Tejon comes from the Spanish tejon, 'badger', and appears in California place names such as Tej▶Tzion#14162 in the U.S.A Hebrew-styled spelling of Zion (Tziyyon), 'the hill of Jerusalem' and, by extension, a symbol▶Upton#14168 in the U.S.Upton is an English surname and place-name from the Old English upp, 'up, higher,' and tun, 'en▶Varick#14180 in the U.S.Varick comes from the surname Warrick or Warwick, an English place-name usually read as 'dwelli▶Ziion#14226 in the U.S.Ziion is a modern respelling of Zion, from the Hebrew Tsiyon, the name of the hill in Jerusalem▶Statton#14326 in the U.S.A double-t spelling of the English surname Staton, from a place-name whose -ton is Old English ▶BozemanAn American surname and place-name — the city of Bozeman, Montana, and the Bozeman Trail, named▶DreauxA French-styled spelling, echoing Dreux, a town in France, and the -eaux ending common in Louis▶EphesianFrom Ephesian, 'of Ephesus' — the ancient Greek city, and the Epistle to the Ephesians in the N▶HollywoodThe Los Angeles district Hollywood, taken as a bold place-name — literally 'holly wood' (a wood▶JorvikJorvik is the Old Norse name for York, the great Viking city in England (from an earlier Eoforw▶PenuelFrom the Hebrew Penuel (Peniel), 'face of God' — in Genesis, the place where Jacob wrestled thr▶ShamiFrom the Arabic Shami, 'of Sham' — Sham being the historic name for Damascus and the wider Leva▶
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Dallas, Denver, Preston and Remington are the most-used, while Cairo and Rome stay rare enough to feel like a discovery.