What is the story behind your town's name?

[misakixx]

i named my first town an abbrevation of my real life town which was dumb. my town was going nowhere and my friend convinced me to reset after i made her hold all my items.
now i got a town named eden and i hate it pretty badly. i couldnt come up with a good name so i decided to name it eden because guns n roses has song called garden of eden.... im probably gonna hack if i can. im not even religious and have been an atheist all my life. i seriously dont know which one of the 2 is dumber ._. i should hack it to a cool japanese sounding name

 

[CynthiaRose]

People always ask me about my New Leaf town name (New Mii), so I'm happy there's a thread where I can explain myself haha The first Animal Crossing game I owned was Wild World, which I started playing at a moderately young age. Thus, Young Me decided at the time that a completely original and brilliant name for my town would be Metown. Eventually I got City Folk and in order to keep the tradition going I called it Miitown, which seemed like a genius idea at the time. I got New Leaf as soon as it came out and for nostalgic reasons I wanted to name it New Miitown in order to pay homage to my previous towns. It turned that this exceeded the maximum number of characters allowed, so I ended up shortening it to New Mii. I do wish that I had come up with a cuter and more original name that doesn't sound like it was invented by a ten year old, but it was so ?\_(ツ)_/?

 

[NinelivesBobcat]

i named my first town an abbrevation of my real life town which was dumb. my town was going nowhere and my friend convinced me to reset after i made her hold all my items.
now i got a town named eden and i hate it pretty badly. i couldnt come up with a good name so i decided to name it eden because guns n roses has song called garden of eden.... im probably gonna hack if i can. im not even religious and have been an atheist all my life. i seriously dont know which one of the 2 is dumber ._. i should hack it to a cool japanese sounding name

You can hack to change the town name on both New Leaf and GCN, but I fear that in some areas it will still show the old town name.

 

[StarUrchin]

My friend found this game called ACNL at the mall. He just found it lying around the mall so he took it lel. He doesn't have a DS tho so he gave it to me. Lucky me right? So anyway, it was a used game and its name was like umm uh hmmm. Ah its name was Nutleaf. I walked in thinking I was the mayor but not right away and I had to prove myself to be the mayor. Then I found out you were just an ordinary villager. Bleh. So I restarted my game after learning this and was asked what my town should be named as. I thought I should use "nut" in the town name so I named it Star (cuz of my username) and naut (as in nut but also like astronaut) Lel

 

[Salt]

My town's name is Fortree because I'm a pokemon loving dork

 

[Bubblebeam]

My town's name is Fortree because I'm a pokemon loving dork

Just like my username.

 

[Koden]

Well Lumiouse is a town from the Gen 6 Pokemon games, which at the time were two games that really brought my spirits up when I was at a low point in my life. It left a special impression on my heart and the name is dear to me.

 

[Lululand]

I'm working on a new town now called "Oranvale" and I chose it because... well, it's supposed to be a giant orange orchard, and "vale" is a town's name suffix that means valley and sounded pretty nice... and it's always a hassle to come up with decent town names that fit within the ridiculously low character limit

 

[Kittyinpink87]

Pandora.
Because I like Borderlands and Pandora jewelry.

 

[SaviorSword]

I'm just gonna post this quote from this topic.

I name'd mine after a planet in Starcraft. Starcraft was one of the most definin' games in my gamin' career, so I had to make some sort of tribute.
What was more surprisin' was that there was only 3 other folks that share the town name of Aiur.

I guess that means Animal Crossin' and Starcraft don't mix too well. ;P

 

[Airysuit]

I like to paint with crayons or aquarel, and I lkke france and french sounding names... so there you go, how Creyal was born!

 

[Angieyvonne]

My town is named after the street I grew up on.

 

[NinelivesBobcat]

My current New Leaf town, Palm Bay, is named after a track from Burnout 2, since it's one of my favourite racing games and I was in a Burnout mood when thinking of a name, lol.

 

[opalskiies]

I have three towns.

Main town Owl City: After the singer - you guessed it - Owl City.
Cycling town Beforus: It's from Homestuck. It's one of the planets.
Second town Oricorio: My favourite gen 7 Pokemon.

 

[Elvera]

Novis is the name of a planet from one of my stories (back then I was planning on it being a winter town, things changed).

And my second town, Pura is named after the tiger in crash bandicoot.

 

[Aniko]

No idea, I didn't choose it.

 

[pixemi]

My first town is called Laverre. It's a town name from the Kalos region in Pokemon, it has a fairy type gym, is surrounded my a forest, looks very nostalgic and most importantly has a very big tree in it! It all added up so quickly haha

As for my second town, Blueveil, no clue. The whole town is blue themed so I guess there is that, quite straightforward

 

[glow]

mowville was literally only because i wanted a town with all cats lol i hate myself

 

[Sntcringe]

My town is named new bark, I really enjoy the gen 3 Pokemon games, so I named my town after new bark.

 

[linfurl princess]

mine is actually a misheard lyric..
i was listening to Summersong by the Decemberists and mistook the line "lips parted like a flag'll unfurl" for "lips parted like a bag of linfurls". i assumed that linfurls were some sort of candy and never questioned it. a couple of years later my mom pointed out my mistake, laughing at me and saying it was really cute anyway.. so mine is the town of Linfurl ^^