I love to take real words (Nova, Luna, Pyre, Emerald) and switch them up by adding/removing letters, changing the spelling, etc to make a unique town name (Noveon, Luneta, Pyrena, Emyrelle). In a nutshell: pick a real word as your base word, then edit the crap out of it to get something that sounds cool.
I'm doing the natural thing with my third town, and I named it after a place that's pretty much the opposite of natural haha. But I guess if I ever change my mind the name will suit it.
Yup, go for it![]()
I came up with my town name using this
DreamBay. I kept calling my town newville so I wanted a new name. I love this name.
Good luck naming your mayor and town! I honestly don't know why I used Urania as mine. I felt silly at the time I guess?![]()
My town name is just "Wyn". I couldn't think of anything, because I'm horrible at coming up with names. I remember searching on Google for some random generators and "Wyn" was a suffix that generated, and I was like, "That sounds ok."
An example of a foreign word could be, say, French for dog; "Chien," which you could then change up to maybe "Shienn" or something like that? It's a pretty bad example, but it's the first thing I thought of :')
I like going with food-themed names! My last town before Matcha was Oolong.
Scientific names of plants and animals can be really cool, too. My very first town was Athene, named for a genus of owls.
My first town, Tadfield, is named after a town from my favorite book (Idk if it's real or not lmao) and my second town, Sonata, is just a word. My mayor and alt characters in Sonata have or will have music-themed names c: You could just do what I did with Sonata and look up word names/nature names. Before it got corrupted, Sonata was Cypress, before that it was Hyacinth, and before that it was Impala.
As for mayor names, Crowley is from the same book Tadfield is from, and Harper (Sonata's mayor) is a music-related name. Before he was Harper, his name Brooks, to match the nature theme I was trying. c: Try out different things!
TL;DR Experiment with different words or look to your favorite books/movies/games/etc, or try real place names!