how did you choose your island name?

[Threepio]

My NL island was Adolphus, I almost went with Gustavus for NH, but stuck with Adolphus again. I just like the name, honestly didn't think too much about it. There are lots of better, more imaginative names in this thread!

 

[NatsumiSummer]

Tierinsel is German for Animal Island. It fits the theme of the game, is 10 characters long, and I am learning German... so it just made perfect sense for me to name my island Tierinsel.

 

[Toot]

There was a thread here before the game came out. The topic was "What would you name your town?"

I literally couldn't think of something, but a post caught my eye. It was called Basil Bay. I stole it lmao. I only did it because Basil is my irl name. I thought it was kinda cute and witty.

I now regret that decision. I like it still, but I can't get over the fact that I took it and the fact that a crap ton of people use Bay in their island names. I won't be a typical cliche for too much longer.

 

[loveclove]

I thought about the beach destination in the Caribbean, Cozumel, and named my island Docemel

 

[VelveteenCat]

When looking into the game beforehand, I found somewhere that it is basially a virtual dollhouse, so I wanted something with doll in the name. Originally I was thinking Dollsgarden, which was just one character too long. Dollgarden would have worked, but didn't roll off the tongue as nicely. Since I like all things dark and love the themes and images it conveyes in my mind, I went with Dollsgrave instead.

 

[patchworkbunny]

My dog was shedding when I got the game and we call her balls of fur "floofers" so my island got called Floofers. My villagers are kinda floofers-like...

 

[Bluebellie]

I wanted to continue my theme from New Leaf. I had a gloomy creepy town but the town name and character names I did not really like after a while. My old town was Achrome. I sort of grew out of the name after a while, but was too far in to reset. I took some time before new horizons came out and brainstormed some ideas and came up with Melancholia. So far I’m ok with it.

 

[Lazy Faye]

I wanted to use amble in a town name since New Leaf. Since it's an island I put aqua before amble and I couldn't be happier!

 

[Kurb]

Fourside was the name of my NL town. It's an Earthbound reference, and I'm a big fan of Earthbound

 

[moonlightxo]

I named it Odair Isle after Finnick Odair, my favorite character from the hunger games movies.

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

because how could I resist?

 

[Admiral Squidlipz]

Oaktown has always been the fantasy name of anyplace i could make. Don't know where i got it from, my mind made up the name!

 

[FRANS_PLAYER]

I went to an island name generator online! The runner up was Mapleham, but I settled on Celosia

 

[Emzy]

Mine is based off a word i learnt from a Wong Fu video back when i was younger! Komorebi means the sunlight that streams through the trees and i felt like that captured the feeling i wanted my island to have hehe

 

[LuchaSloth]

I named my island Astoria...because I was laying in bed, and I had a book about the Lewis and Clark expedition (entitled 'Astoria') on my shelf, and I just said "yeah...that'll do". Lol. And I have seen that at least one other person has the same island name...which is kinda funny.

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

I just assumed that everyone who uses the name Destiny is a Kingdom Hearts fan. Destiny Island is the starting location for the first game!

Oh, that’s interesting! I’ve never played Kingdom Hearts, so I had no idea.

 

[AlexSilverpen]

I found this island name generator before the game came out, and one of the randomly generated names was Seastar. I loved the name, so I decided to go with it. Before this, however, almost every Animal Crossing town name I had was Home. That's because the first copy of Animal Crossing I ever played was a copy a friend lent me, and her town name was Home. I kept the tradition up for years, but felt something needed to change with New Horizons. An island named Home didn't seem right.

 

[sleepydreepy]

I originally wanted something cool and creative and actually decided on "Echo Island" but it didn't fit the character limit, so I had to think of something else on the spot and decided on "Maui" (since I knew I wanted to have a tropical themed island)

 

[Mick]

Fourside was the name of my NL town. It's an Earthbound reference, and I'm a big fan of Earthbound

So does this mean you named it Fiveside this time around?

In New Leaf I went with Hyrule which was terribly original (no regrets though) but in this one I wanted something that sounded fantasy-ish and far away so Narnia it was. I still like it.

 

[Jhine7]

I chose mine to go along with the Greek Mythology theme I was thinking of creating, "Olympus"