Place Name Girl Names

853 place name girl names with meanings, U.S. popularity, and audio pronunciation on every page.

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Some names are chosen; others are collected. A honeymoon city, the road your grandmother grew up on, the coastline where you finally exhaled — when a place has shaped your family, naming a daughter after it is the most natural thing in the world, and the search that brings parents here is exactly that: place name girl names. The postcard picks are the ones people fall for hardest. London is grand and grey-skied and somehow still soft; Vienna arrives with music attached; Sydney is sunlit and easygoing; and Capri is all blue water and two quick syllables you can call across a beach.

Then there is the homegrown half of the list, and it has a completely different texture — front porches instead of departure boards. Brooklynn and Carolina both feel like family names as much as map points. Dakota and Salem lean quiet and windswept. And a whole tier of English village-and-meadow sounds has crossed over into first-name territory: Oakley, Sutton, Kendall and Leighton all began as places on a map in Britain and now sound thoroughly, effortlessly like little girls.

Every name below opens to its full page — a sourced meaning, the story of the place behind it, its U.S. popularity, and a clear audio pronunciation so you can hear it before you fall for it.

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Syenna#17346 in the U.S.A modern respelling of Sienna, from the Tuscan city Siena and the warm pigment burnt sienna. Th▶France#17347 in the U.S.As a girl's name France doubles as the country name and as a short form of Frances/Francine, fr▶Somalia#17348 in the U.S.Somalia is a place-name adoption, taken from the East African nation whose name derives from th▶Brittni#17349 in the U.S.Brittni is one of the many streamlined spellings of Brittany, the French region named for the B▶Brittnie#17350 in the U.S.Brittnie is a phonetic respelling of Brittany, the place name for the Celtic peninsula of north▶Syria#17351 in the U.S.Syria is used as a girl's name from the place-name — the ancient Near-Eastern land, whose Greek▶Emmaus#17360 in the U.S.From Emmaus, the village near Jerusalem where, in the Gospel of Luke, the risen Jesus appeared ▶Taline#17364 in the U.S.Taline (also Talin, Taleen) is an Armenian girls' name taken from Talin, a town in the Aragatso▶Shiann#17396 in the U.S.Shiann is a phonetic respelling of Cheyenne, the name of the Plains nation and, in the U.S., a ▶Lundon#17404 in the U.S.Lundon is a respelling of London, the English capital, used as a personal name. The city's name▶Vannah#17461 in the U.S.Vannah is a short form drawn from Savannah or Vanna, keeping the warm end of the longer name. S▶Varenna#17462 in the U.S.Varenna is best known as a village on the eastern shore of Lake Como in northern Italy. As a gi▶Chelse#17581 in the U.S.Chelse is a trimmed spelling of Chelsea, from the London district whose Old English name means ▶Zeila#17614 in the U.S.A modern name that echoes Sheila and Zela, and also matches Zeila, a historic port town on the ▶Seville#17738 in the U.S.Seville is the English name of the historic city in southern Spain, called Sevilla in Spanish. ▶Brittanee#17778 in the U.S.Brittanee is a respelling of Brittany, the place-name of the French region Bretagne, 'land of t▶Britteny#17779 in the U.S.Britteny is a phonetic respelling of Brittany, the girl's name taken from the northwestern Fren▶Shyenne#17779 in the U.S.Shyenne is a phonetic respelling of Cheyenne, the name of the Great Plains nation; the English ▶Chelcee#17885 in the U.S.Chelcee is a creative spelling of Chelsea, the London district whose name comes from Old Englis▶Chianti#17896 in the U.S.Chianti is a word-name taken from the Chianti hills of Tuscany, the region that gives the famou▶Montoya#17946 in the U.S.Montoya is a well-known Spanish (Basque-influenced) surname, generally traced to a place-name b▶Vindhya#17973 in the U.S.From the Sanskrit, the name of the Vindhya, a mountain range that crosses central India — long ▶Saudia#18017 in the U.S.Saudia is a place-derived given name that echoes the country name Saudi Arabia; the same word n▶Sidonie#18090 in the U.S.A French name meaning 'of Sidon,' the ancient Phoenician port; a feminine form of Sidonius. The▶Kerith#18229 in the U.S.Kerith comes from the biblical brook Cherith, where the prophet Elijah hid and was fed by raven▶Venetia#18276 in the U.S.Venetia is the Latin name for Venice and its surrounding Veneto region, ultimately from the anc▶Larrissa#18353 in the U.S.Larrissa is a doubled-r spelling of Larissa, the name of an ancient city in Thessaly and of a n▶Sahvanna#18376 in the U.S.Sahvanna is a phonetic respelling of Savannah. That name comes from the Spanish sabana, borrowe▶Keenya#18443 in the U.S.Keenya is a phonetic spelling of Kenya, the name of the East African nation, adopted as a girls▶Shelsey#18476 in the U.S.Shelsey is a phonetic spelling of Chelsea or Chelsey, from the London district whose name comes▶Shirly#18485 in the U.S.Shirly is a reduced spelling of Shirley, an English surname and place name from Old English sci▶Racine#18507 in the U.S.Racine is a French word and surname meaning 'root'. As a given name it was adopted from two pub▶Lakeland#18606 in the U.S.Lakeland is an English place-name meaning 'land of lakes' — most famously England's Lake Distri▶Ionia#18696 in the U.S.Ionia was the ancient Greek name for a region on the western coast of Anatolia, home to early G▶Kimberely#18707 in the U.S.An extra-e spelling of Kimberly, an English place and surname read as 'Cyneburga's field' or 'r▶Shalimar#18709 in the U.S.Shalimar is best known from the Mughal Shalimar Gardens near Lahore and in Kashmir, whose name ▶Sidni#18892 in the U.S.Sidni is a streamlined respelling of Sydney or Sidney, an English surname and place name from O▶Venise#18938 in the U.S.Venise is the French form of Venice, the Italian canal city, pressed into service as a given na▶Venisha#18939 in the U.S.Venisha is a modern respelling in the Venetia and Venicia family, place-based names tied to Ven▶Lorain#19023 in the U.S.Lorain is a simplified spelling of Lorraine, the name of the historic region in northeastern Fr▶Kelsay#19038 in the U.S.Kelsay is a variant spelling of Kelsey, an English place name and surname turned given name. Ke▶Sedalia#20026 in the U.S.Sedalia is chiefly a place name - the Missouri city of Sedalia, coined in the eighteen-fifties ▶Tanzania#20170 in the U.S.Tanzania is used as a given name after the East African country, whose name was coined in 1964 ▶Yakima#20355 in the U.S.Yakima comes from the Yakama Nation of the Columbia Plateau in what is now Washington State, an▶AlteaAltea is a seaside town on Spain's Costa Blanca, and the name also reads as a Spanish-shaped fo▶BegoñaOur Lady of Begoña, a Basque Marian title (place name)▶BlakeleiA modern spelling of Blakely, an English surname from a place name. The Old English elements ar▶CalgaryFrom the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada — named after Calgary on the Isle of Mull, Scotland▶MoroccoThe name of the North African country Morocco, used as a bold place-name. The country's English▶NessA one-syllable name reading as a short form of Vanessa or Agnes ('pure; holy'), or as the Scott▶ValinorFrom J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth: Valinor is the land of the Valar, the 'Undying Lands' acros▶VallettaA place name: Valletta is the capital of Malta, named for Jean Parisot de Valette. Carried as a▶WyndhamFrom an English surname and place name, generally read as 'windy village/home' or 'Wyman's home▶

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Frequently Asked

What are popular place names for girls?

Oakley, Sutton, London and Brooklynn are among the most-used place names for girls in the U.S., with Dakota and Sydney long-running favorites.

What is a pretty city name for a baby girl?

Vienna, Capri and Sydney are the softest of the city names — each one sounds like a first name first and a destination second.

Is it strange to name a baby after a place?

Not at all — place names are one of the oldest naming traditions there is, and many surnames that became first names started as villages. What matters is that the place means something to you, and that the name still sounds right shouted across a park.