What’s the story behind your town name?

[bumblybee]

My town?s name is Helgatan, which I would totally change if I could. When I first started it I was super in to the TV show Supernarural, so it is a combination of Hell, Pergatory, and Heaven. Super cringy.

What are your reasons for naming your town what you did? Is it just because it?s pretty, or does it have some story behind it?

 

[MapleSilver]

The initial idea for my town came when I was waiting for a bus in the middle of winter. It was incredibly cold, and therefore very uncomfortable to be outside in. During that ordeal, I got the idea: "how about I make a New Leaf town and fill it with 20 torches?" Thus Fireleaf was born.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

My New Leaf town is called Boston, and my initial reasoning was because "that's where the Boston harbor is" or "that's where the Berkley conservatory of music is" and "it is really refined". I'm not convinced those reasons are enough to justify it, but I'm okay with the name so I wouldn't change it.

My older towns are just stupid words I thought of as a kid, including ranter (AC:GCN), Ernier (WW), and Gaton (CF).

 

[DubiousDelphine]

Town lazy: My sis wanted it to be called lazy town or smthing,

 

[LadyDestani]

Sakura is just a beautiful sounding name to me and I love the symbolism behind cherry blossoms. My town is sort of a conglomeration of all the different things I like, which includes a lot of zen/asian inspired things, so Sakura felt like the perfect town name to me.

 

[Khaelis]

Completely uncreative with names in my younger years, just randomly picked a town name from Pokemon (Ecruteak). Kinda just stuck with me.

 

[Snowesque]

I have named all my towns Flowert so far.

It is a rewording of the Koopa village, Petalburg in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
It was my favorite game before I got more into Animal Crossing.

 

[carackobama]

I wanted a name that sounded magical but also quite natural and homely - like a small town with a slightly celestial edge. I wanted a word like Moon/Star in the name and eventually landed on Moon Bay as I imagined my town to be a seaside town similar to in Kiki’s Delivery Service.

 

[slatka]

I've had three towns so far my first town was called Rosewood back in 2013 i really liked that name for a year or so then i just got sick of it.

My 2nd town was called Utopia based on one of my favourite albums by the artist Bj?rk and it was a very cute themed town.

I just reset my town for the third time to start all over again and had named it Atropa since another user on here suggested on my thread the use of latin flower names "Atropa" is based on "Atropa belladonna" aka Deadly Nightshade i'm hoping to make this town very zen and nature/plant oriented

 

[Awful]

I've had a few towns, but the one I run currently is named after my favorite world in a popular MMORPG. I just felt like I should pay tribute to a game where I made a lot of memories on. Plus, I didn't have any better ideas lol.

 

[Bitty]

I've always been a huge high fantasy fan, like LOTR type of stuff D&D is another passion of mine. Another thing I like to do is have some sort of settlement type name like city, town, vale etc; so the name has to be short. thus the creation of fae vale

 

[Prodigu]

I honestly didnt get very creative with my town name I just made it an IRL location, im definitely going to change it up when Animal crossing switch comes out however

 

[moonbyu]

I really like sweet stuff. Thus, the town of Cr?ame was born.

 

[Ojo46]

My town is called Treetop since I wanted a name that's nature themed and it was the first name that popped into my head

 

[Stella-Io]

New Town: based off of my WW town, DS Town. I named it after the game, New Leaf. Yeah, extremely uncreative.

Moriyo (Village): Moriyo originally was just going to be a forest town, since I like trees. I wanted a unique sounding name that was easy to pronounce, so I started looking up Japanese names, since I knew I wanted my characters' name to be Japanese and, I love Japanese stuff. Moriyo means 'forest generation' perfect for the town. I later added the Village part when I decided to make it a magical forest town.

Treehut: I wanted this name to sound Rune Factory-ish, like it could be a little town name found in the series, while also being naturey. This town also serves as a reference to WW, where the designs came from the town of Treehut, the person being Allan.

Secret: This one is actually based off of a story I was going to write, where everyone is kinda corrupt and power hungry. This WAS going to be a horror themed town where everyone has a secret, but I plan on remaking it. I think I'll keep the name, so it's new meaning is 'the little town you can only find when you're lost'. It's not on any map, a secret little hide away.

Lastly, Luminosa: named 'for the way the moon illuminates the ocean', Luminosa is a summer retreat with all the residents having an odd love and worship of the moon. For the longest time I had wanted to make lunar/moon themed town, but always had another idea I did. I didn't plan on having a fourth town, but ideas kept coming and when I saw a new copy of NL, I couldn't pass the opportunity.

 

[MochiACNL]

One of my favorite shows is AtLA and wanted something related from the shown to be put into my town. The Serpents Pass is my favorite episode so I used Full Moon Bay.

For Rosewood, Roses are my favorite type of flower and it's a woodsy theme

 

[cornimer]

My Wild World town is called "Canada". Very original.

My New Leaf town is called "Cacturne" after the pokemon.

My Gamecube town, though I don't really play it anymore, is called "Tadville"

 

[Bosmer]

For my new leaf town the chronicles of narnia because I couldn't think of a better name at the time, I wish I could change it into something better but I've had the town since 2013 and put a lot of work to it.

My wild world town I named after a small town I grew up in my childhood.

 

[drowningfairies]

Twilight is a simple name I choose for a lot of ny towns. I'm not sure why, but I really like it and its pretty much stuck with my towns.

 

[greyCat44]

I named mine Hapi>w< because New Leaf was my first Animal Crossing Game, and I started happy flailing as soon as I saw Rover because I like cats ) I didn't know I'd never see him again (and that he was determining my face type the entire time we spoke huhu)