Australian Town Name Generator

Funny, tongue-twisting town names, Australian style

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Generate Australian town names, with the funny end of the map well represented: doubled names like Wagga Wagga and Grong Grong, tongue-twisters like Woolloomooloo and Burrumbuttock, blunt settler names like Mount Hopeless and Nowhere Else, and invented outback, gold-rush and surf towns like Dunno Downs and Bogged Ute Bend. The list mixes real and invented names.

About Australian town names

Australian place names are funny in a few dependable ways, and Australians are usually the first to laugh. One is the doubled name: Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy, Kurri Kurri, Grong Grong, Book Book. Most come from Aboriginal languages, so the list does not make up new ones in that pattern for a laugh. The same goes for the long rolling names that visitors trip over, such as Woolloomooloo, Goondiwindi, Coonabarabran and Yackandandah.

The second source of comedy is the plain-spoken settler. Explorers, surveyors and settlers who were tired, lost or let down wrote their mood onto the map: Mount Hopeless, Mount Disappointment, Useless Loop, Nowhere Else, Dismal Swamp. This is the pattern the invented names on the list follow, from Lake Letdown and Point Pointless to Dunno Downs, Bogged Ute Bend and Dropped Pie Corner.

Around those sit the quieter styles that make a map feel Australian: creek, gully, bore, downs and station names of the outback, British transplants with Port, Mount and St, gold-rush diggings, and surf towns. The list mixes real places with invented ones and does not mark which is which, so look a name up before you treat it as a real town, and before you borrow a real one for a fictional setting.

How to choose Australian town names

Say it out loud. The best Australian names have a rhythm: try Tumbarumba, Mullumbimby and Cunnamulla before you settle on one.
For a comic town in a story, the blunt style is the one to invent in: a landform plus a complaint, such as Misery Flat, Mount Regret or Not Much Bore.
Match the ending to the country. Bore, Tank, Downs and Station belong to the dry inland, Gully and Reef to old goldfields, Head, Inlet and Point to the coast.
If you use a real town's name in fiction, remember that people live there. An invented name keeps the joke away from a real community.
Leave names from Aboriginal languages as they are. Do not alter them or coin lookalikes for comic effect; pick a settler-style name when you want the joke.

Frequently asked questions

What are some funny Australian town names?

Well-known favorites include Wagga Wagga, Humpty Doo, Nowhere Else, Burrumbuttock, Come By Chance, Banana and Useless Loop. The list adds invented ones in the same dry spirit, such as Dunno Downs, Lake Letdown and Dropped Pie Corner.

Are these real Australian towns?

The list mixes real towns, suburbs, localities and landmarks such as bays, beaches and mountains with invented names, and it does not label which is which. If it matters for your project, look the name up on a map before relying on it.

Why do so many Australian place names repeat a word?

Doubled names such as Wagga Wagga, Kurri Kurri and Mitta Mitta come from Aboriginal languages, many of which use repetition as an ordinary part of forming words. What each name means varies by language and is often debated, so this page does not give meanings.

How do I make up an Australian-sounding town name?

Combine something you would see from a ute window with a landform: an animal, tree or mishap plus Creek, Flat, Gully, Bend or Downs. Goanna Gully, Saltbush Flat, Broken Axle Creek and Red Gum Crossing are all built that way.

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All 500 Australian town names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 8 names

Airlie Beach
Angry Emu Plains
Anxious Bay
Apollo Bay
Are We There Yet
Armidale
Artesian Springs
Arvo Bay

B: 71 names

Baan Baa
Back of Beyond
Bad Luck Bore
Bael Bael
Bagdad
Bairnsdale
Bakery Hill
Ballarat
Ban Ban Springs
Banana
Bandicoot Bend
Banksia Downs
Barking Dog Bore
Barramundi Bend
Batemans Bay
Bay of Fires
Beechworth
Beggan Beggan
Bells Beach
Bendigo
Bermagui
Bet Bet
Between the Flags
Beyond the Black Stump
Bicheno
Big Wet Crossing
Billy Boil Creek
Bindi Bindi
Birdsville
Bli Bli
Blind Freddy's Lookout
Blowfly Bend
Blown Hat Bluff
Bluebottle Bay
Bluebush Bore

B, continued

Bluetongue Bend
Blueys Beach
Boardies Beach
Bogan Gate
Boggabilla
Bogged Ute Bend
Bom Bom
Bong Bong
Bonzer Bay
Book Book
Booligal
Boomerang Beach
Boonoo Boonoo
Booti Booti
Borroloola
Bottlebrush Bend
Boundary Rider's Rest
Brigalow Bend
Broke
Broken Axle Creek
Brolga Swamp
Broome
Brown Snake Bend
Brumby Springs
Buckley's Chance
Budgie Bore
Bulldust Bend
Bullocky's Rest
Buln Buln
Bunyip
Burnt Damper
Burnt Snag Bend
Burracoppin
Burrumbuttock
Busselton
Byron Bay

C: 35 names

Cabramurra
Californian Gully
Campbell Town
Canowindra
Cape Grumble
Cape Tribulation
Cape Upstart
Carag Carag
Castlemaine
Cattle Camp Creek
Chicken Salt Cove
Cicada Gully
Claypan Creek
Close Enough Crossing
Cocklebiddy
Cocky's Roost
Cod Hole Reach
Coffin Bay
Colac Colac
Come By Chance
Coober Pedy
Coolangatta
Coolgardie
Coolibah Crossing
Coomoo Coomoo
Coonabarabran
Cootamundra
Coral Bay
Cowaramup
Cranky Goose Lagoon
Crescent Head
Crikey Crossing
Crowdy Head
Cunnamulla
Curl Curl

D: 29 names

Dag's End
Day Dawn
Daybreak Springs
Deaf Adder Gorge
Devonport
Diggers Rest
Dingo
Dingo Fence Siding
Dismal Swamp
Doo Town
Doodlakine
Dookie
Doon Doon
Drik Drik
Drongo Downs
Drop Bear Ridge
Dropped Pie Corner
Drover's Lament
Dry Lake Station
Duffer Flat
Dululu
Dum Dum
Dumbleyung
Dumper Bay
Dunedoo
Dunno Downs
Dust Devil Downs
Dusty Boot Creek
Dwellingup

E: 8 names

Echidna Rise
Eden
Eggs and Bacon Bay
Eldorado
Elong Elong
Emu Crossing
Esperance
Evening Star Tank

F: 14 names

Fair Dinkum Flat
Far Enough
Fat Wombat Flat
Fish and Chip Cove
Flaming Galah Gully
Flat Battery Flat
Flat Out Flat
Flood Marker Crossing
Flowerpot
Fly Swat Flat
Fossicker's Folly
Foul Bay
Four Mile Tank
Friendly Beaches

G: 23 names

Galah Creek
Geraldton
Ghost Gum Gorge
Gibber Plains
Gil Gil
Glen Innes
Gnowangerup
Goanna Gully
Gol Gol
Golden Gully
Gone Bush
Gone Fishing Bay
Gong Gong
Goondiwindi
Goonoo Goonoo
Grass Patch
Greg Greg
Grong Grong
Gulargambone
Gulgong
Gumly Gumly
Gundagai
Gympie

H: 11 names

Halfway Creek
Hard Going Flat
Hat Head
Heat Haze Station
Hill End
Hoop Snake Hill
Hopeless Reach
Howlong
Humbug Scrub
Humpty Doo
Huskisson

I: 3 names

Indooroopilly
Iron Baron
Ironbark Ridge

J: 5 names

Jackaroo Flat
Jerdacuttup
Jerilderie
Jil Jil
Jillaroo Downs

K: 12 names

Kalgoorlie
Kangaroo Flat
Kanowna
Katherine
Ki Ki
Kiama
Kin Kin
Knackered Gully
Koo Wee Rup
Kookaburra Creek
Kurrajong Creek
Kurri Kurri

L: 25 names

Lake Letdown
Lake Mistake
Lake Shrug
Lakes Entrance
Lal Lal
Lang Lang
Larrikin Ridge
Last Chance Soak
Last Shilling Lead
Laughing Jack Lagoon
Launceston
Lazy Lizard Ledge
Lennox Head
Lightning Ridge
Little Bendigo
Little Hope Creek
Lone Gum
Long Paddock
Long Weekend
Longboard Point
Lost Dog Creek
Lost Hat Lookout
Lost Shilling Gully
Lucky Bay
Lucky Strike Gully

M: 48 names

Mallacoota
Mallee Downs
Manangatang
Manypeaks
Marble Bar
Margaret River
Maroochydore
Maryborough
Meat Pie Flat
Meekatharra
Merimbula
Mia Mia
Millaa Millaa
Mirage Plains
Misery Flat
Mitta Mitta
Moliagul
Monkey Mia
Mooball
Mooloolaba
Moonlight Flat
Mount Barker
Mount Beauty
Mount Difficult
Mount Disappointment
Mount Fair Go
Mount Gambier
Mount Hindsight
Mount Hopeless
Mount Isa
Mount Magnet
Mount Maybe
Mount Mistake
Mount Regret
Mount Remarkable
Mount Speculation
Mount Surprise
Mount Terrible
Mount Useful
Mozzie Flat
Mukinbudin
Mulga Downs
Mullock Hill
Mullumbimby
Mundrabilla
Murrumbateman
Murwillumbah
Muttaburra

N: 26 names

Napoleons
Nar Nar Goon
Narooma
Near Enough
Nearly Nugget
Nearly There
Nerrin Nerrin
Never Never Siding
Nevertire
New Norfolk
Nimmitabel
Nindigully
Nippers Beach
No Pub Flat
No Tree Plain
No Worries
Noosa Heads
Not Far Now
Not Much Bore
Nothing Flat
Nowhere Else
Nug Nug
Nugget Gully
Nullagine
Nullarbor
Number Nine Bore

O: 9 names

Omeo
One Horse Flat
One Pub Town
One Tree Hill
Oodnadatta
Ophir
Orroroo
Overflow Station
Overland Corner

P: 30 names

Paraburdoo
Patchewollock
Pavlova Point
Peeling Nose Point
Penguin
Pennyweight Flat
Pipi Point
Platypus Puddle
Point Pointless
Poochera
Porepunkah
Port Albert
Port Augusta
Port Campbell
Port Douglas
Port Elliot
Port Fairy
Port Hedland
Port Kembla
Port Lincoln
Port Macquarie
Port Patience
Port Perhaps
Port Pirie
Port Wakefield
Prawn Trawler Inlet
Promised Land
Puddlers Flat
Pumpkin Scone Siding
Pura Pura

Q: 2 names

Quambatook
Queenscliff

R: 14 names

Rafferty's Reach
Rainbow
Rainbow Beach
Ratbag Rise
Ravenswood
Red Gum Crossing
Redback Ridge
Ripper Rocks
Robe
Rockhampton
Round the Bend
Rum Jungle
Rupanyup
Rusty Ute Ridge

S: 41 names

Salmon Gums
Salt Lake Siding
Saltbush Flat
Sandbar Point
Scorcher Plains
Sea Lake
Seagull Chip Jetty
Seal Rocks
Sebastopol
Second Thoughts
Servo Corner
Seven Mile Nowhere
Seventeen Seventy
She'll Be Right
Shearers Flat
Sickie Bay
Smiggin Holes
Smoko
Snake Gully
Snug
Sofala
Southern Cross
Specimen Gully
Speed
Spinifex Springs
Squeaky Beach
St Arnaud
St George
St Helens
Staffordshire Reef
Stanthorpe
Stinking Hot Springs
Stockinbingal
Stockman's Crossing
Stone the Crows Creek
Streaky Bay
Strewth Creek
Sunburn Point
Sundown Station
Swagman's Folly
Swooping Magpie Hill

T: 40 names

Tallebudgera
Tangambalanga
Tantanoola
Tarnagulla
Ten Mile Well
Tenterfield
Terrick Terrick
Texas
Thargomindah
The Channon
The Gurdies
The Patch
The Pocket
The Risk
The Rock
Thirsty Dog Crossing
Thirsty Point
Three Legged Dog
Tibooburra
Tilba Tilba
Tin Can Bay
Tin Kettle Flat
Tomahawk
Too Far
Toogoolawah
Tooleybuc
Toowoomba
Torquay
Tough Luck Tank
Townsville
Treachery Beach
True Blue Bay
Trundle
Tuckerbag Bend
Tucki Tucki
Tullibigeal
Tumbarumba
Tumbi Umbi
Tumby Bay
Turn Back Jimmy Creek

U: 2 names

Ulladulla
Useless Loop

V: 1 name

Victor Harbor

W: 35 names

Wagga Wagga
Wal Wal
Walhalla
Walla Walla
Wallabadah
Wallaby Gully
Wallaroo Downs
Wangaratta
Wangi Wangi
Warm Beer Waterhole
Warracknabeal
Warrnambool
Wattle Flat
Wedgetail Ridge
Wee Jasper
Wee Waa
Widgiemooltha
Windmill Bore
Wineglass Bay
Wipeout Point
Wollongong
Wombat
Wombat Wallow
Wonglepong
Wonthaggi
Woods Point
Woolgoolga
Woolloomooloo
Woolloongabba
Woolshed Creek
Wowan
Woy Woy
Wrong Turn Waterhole
Wyalkatchem
Wycheproof

Y: 7 names

Yabby Dam
Yackandandah
Yallingup
Yamba
Yellow Box Flat
Yeppoon
You Beaut Beach

Z: 1 name

Zinc Nose Point