Funny Town Name Generator

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Generate funny town names for maps, games, stories and inside jokes: bleak little hamlets like Disappointment Falls, gross-out villages like Soggy Bottom, and English-sounding absurdities like Much Wittering and Lesser Dithering.

About funny town names

Funny town names work because real place names are already slightly ridiculous. Britain has parishes that sound like digestive complaints, America has crossroads named after whatever happened there on a Tuesday, and every country has a village whose name means something rude in the next valley over. The joke lands when an invented name copies those real structures exactly and then swaps in something undignified: a respectable suffix like -bury, -ford, Springs or Junction attached to a word like Soggy, Gristle or Disappointment.

There are a few reliable flavors. Mock-English names stack prefixes and parish-register formality onto nonsense (Much Wittering, Lesser Dithering, Dribble-on-the-Wold). American frontier names put a grim or gross noun in front of Gulch, Flats, Hollow or Landing (Buzzard Gulch, Toe Jam Junction). Mundane names are funny precisely because nobody would found a town called Mediocre Springs or Lower Expectations. And one-word names like Squelch, Nope or Beige feel like a sign someone put up in a fit of honesty.

For maps, games or a running gag, mix the styles so they read like a real region with a bad attitude. The best ones are easy to say in a weather report.

How to choose funny town names

  • Match the suffix to the setting: Hollow, Gulch and Landing for American backwoods, -bury, -ford and -on-the-Wold for mock-English villages, Heights or Estates for a failed suburb.
  • Keep the joke to one word per name; Soggy Bottom is funny, Soggy Moist Damp Bottom is trying too hard.
  • Use prefixes like Upper, Lower, Greater, Lesser, Old and East to build a whole fake county (Big Lump and Little Lump, Higgledy and Piggledy).
  • For a game or novel, pair a funny town with a deadpan population sign or welcome slogan; Disappointment Falls, Pop. 311 does half the work.
  • Say it like a newsreader; if you can imagine "light rain over Gristle Point this evening" with a straight face, it's a keeper.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a town name funny?

Usually the gap between a serious place-name structure and an undignified word inside it. Suffixes like -bury, Springs, Junction and Hollow signal a real place, so pairing them with Soggy, Gristle, Disappointment or Nope makes the name sound official and absurd at once.

Can I use these town names in my game or story?

Yes. They are invented names written for maps, tabletop campaigns, The Sims, Animal Crossing islands, Minecraft villages and comic fiction. They are not based on real towns, though a few may coincidentally resemble one somewhere.

Are there real towns with funny names?

Plenty, which is why this style works. Real examples include places in the UK and US with names that sound like illnesses, body parts or complaints; the generator copies those naming patterns rather than the actual towns.

Which names are safe for a kids' project?

Stick to the mundane and silly ones such as Mediocre Springs, Wobbly Knob, Fiddlesticks Corners, Snoozeville or Higgledy and Piggledy, and skip the gross-out names that reference bodily functions.

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A: 2 names

  • Adequate Springs
  • Ankle Deep

B: 54 names

  • Back Pocket
  • Backache Bend
  • Backwater Bend
  • Baloney Bend
  • Barely Standing
  • Barnacle Bottom
  • Beetroot Bend
  • Beige
  • Belch Bay
  • Belligerent Bend
  • Bellyache Bend
  • Bellybutton Bluffs
  • Bickerton-on-Sea
  • Big Lump
  • Bilgewater
  • Binfield Regis
  • Biscuitville Heights
  • Blah Bluffs
  • Blandford Meadows
  • Bleakley
  • Bleary Bend
  • Bleh Bay
  • Blight Acres
  • Blimpton
  • Blinkton
  • Blister Creek
  • Blister Pack Bluffs
  • Blotch Bluffs
  • Blubberton
  • Blunder Bluff
  • Bodgeworth
  • Bogey Hollow
  • Bogtrotter Bend
  • Bogwater
  • Boondock Springs
  • Boondoggle
  • Borington Spa
  • Botchford
  • Bothersome
  • Brussels Sprout Bay
  • Bubbleworth
  • Budget Falls
  • Bumbershoot
  • Bumblesworth
  • Bumpkin Bluffs
  • Bumpville
  • Bungholt
  • Bungleton
  • Bunkum Bend
  • Burnt Toast
  • Burpington
  • Butterbean Junction
  • Buttermilk Bottom
  • Buzzard Gulch

C: 32 names

  • Cabbage Flats
  • Cankersham
  • Cardigan Heights
  • Cattle Grid
  • Chigger Flats
  • Chin Wag
  • Chipping Nonsense
  • Chubb Corners
  • Chucklebury
  • Chuffington
  • Chunder Cove
  • Chutney Crossing
  • Clammy Cove
  • Clearance Sale Heights
  • Clodhopper Junction
  • Cluck Hollow
  • Clutter Gulch
  • Cooties Cove
  • Cornball
  • Cowlick Corners
  • Crabapple Corners
  • Crackpot Corners
  • Crank Corners
  • Cranky Corners
  • Crouton Crossing
  • Crud Creek
  • Crumbleford
  • Crumpet Crossing
  • Crusty Creek
  • Curdle Creek
  • Cussword
  • Custard Bottom

D: 35 names

  • Damp Patch
  • Dampford
  • Dank Hollow
  • Dented Can Corners
  • Dimwick
  • Dingbat Ridge
  • Dingle Dell Estates
  • Dingleberry Heights
  • Dingus Landing
  • Dingy Dale
  • Disappointment Falls
  • Dishwater Dale
  • Ditchwater
  • Doddering Heights
  • Dodgy Hollow
  • Doily Corners
  • Doldrum Dell
  • Doodleburg
  • Doofus Gap
  • Dorkington
  • Drab
  • Dreary Dale
  • Dribble-on-the-Wold
  • Drivel Springs
  • Drizzleford
  • Drool Springs
  • Drowsy Dell
  • Drudgeworth
  • Dullard Dale
  • Dullsville Heights
  • Dumpling Hollow
  • Dumpsville
  • Dunce Landing
  • Dunroamin Estates
  • Dust Mite Mesa

E: 4 names

  • Earlswood Apologies
  • Earwax Point
  • East Pimple
  • Elbow Grease Gulch

F: 36 names

  • Faint Praise
  • Fartleigh
  • Feeble Falls
  • Fennel Nowhere
  • Fiddlesticks Corners
  • Fidget Falls
  • Fine I Guess
  • Fishgut Cove
  • Fizzlewick
  • Flabbington
  • Flapjack Flats
  • Flat Tire Falls
  • Flatulence Flats
  • Fleabag Flats
  • Flimsyford
  • Flinch Creek
  • Flop Harbor
  • Floppy Flats
  • Flounder Falls
  • Flubber Flats
  • Fluff Knob
  • Fluffington
  • Fluffnut Falls
  • Fluster Flats
  • Fogbound
  • Frazzle Flats
  • Fretford
  • Fritter Falls
  • Frogspit
  • Frowning Falls
  • Frumpington
  • Frumpy Falls
  • Fuddle Falls
  • Fudgeport
  • Fumblesworth
  • Fungus Junction

G: 37 names

  • Gassy Creek
  • Gawkington
  • Gizzard Gap
  • Glitch Gulch
  • Gloomsbury
  • Gloopworth
  • Gnat Hollow
  • Gob Landing
  • Goo Landing
  • Goober Flats
  • Gopher Gulch
  • Gravel Pit Gardens
  • Gravy Boat Harbor
  • Gravy Falls
  • Great Shirking
  • Greater Puddlebury
  • Griddle Gap
  • Grimble
  • Grimpen Mire Estates
  • Gripeworth
  • Gristle Point
  • Gristly Sausage Bay
  • Grits Junction
  • Grouchford
  • Grovel Green
  • Grubbington
  • Grudgeford
  • Grumpy Gulch
  • Grunt Landing
  • Gruntbury
  • Guffaw Gulch
  • Gulpington
  • Gumbo Gap
  • Gumption Gulch
  • Gunk Gulch
  • Gurgle Gap
  • Guzzleford

H: 16 names

  • Half Past Nowhere
  • Hangdog Hollow
  • Hangnail Hollow
  • Hangover Hills
  • Hedgehog Bottoms
  • Hiccup Hill
  • Higgledy
  • Ho-Hum Hills
  • Hobble Hollow
  • Hobnob Hill
  • Hog Wallow
  • Hogbreath Hill
  • Hoof-in-Mouth
  • Huff Hollow
  • Humdrum Heights
  • Hushpuppy Hollow

I: 3 names

  • Ick Hollow
  • Ickville
  • Itchy Bend

J: 1 name

  • Jittery Junction

K: 4 names

  • Kettle Flats
  • Kneecap Corners
  • Knobbly Knoll
  • Knucklehead Knob

L: 29 names

  • Lardbucket Landing
  • Lardville
  • Last Resort
  • Leaky Faucet Falls
  • Leftover Landing
  • Lesser Dithering
  • Lesser Fuss
  • Lesser Tittering
  • Limbo Junction
  • Limp Pines
  • Limpwick
  • Lint Hollow
  • Lint Trap Landing
  • Little Grumbling
  • Little Lump
  • Loiterton
  • Loose Gravel
  • Loose Thread Landing
  • Lost Remote Landing
  • Low Tide Low Hopes
  • Lower Codswallop
  • Lower Earlobe
  • Lower Expectations
  • Lower Shambles
  • Lower Trousers
  • Lower Wobbleton
  • Lukewarm Lake
  • Lumbago Landing
  • Lumpy Ridge

M: 32 names

  • Magnolia Paint Parish
  • Marmalade Junction
  • Marrow Gulch
  • Mashed Turnip Meadows
  • Mediocre Springs
  • Meh, Nebraska
  • Middling Moor
  • Mildew Creek
  • Mildly Alarmed
  • Moan Valley
  • Moaning Meadows
  • Moist Hollow
  • Moldy Oaks
  • Mope Hollow
  • Moribund Meadows
  • Mosquito Landing
  • Mothball Mesa
  • Mouldy Biscuit Bay
  • Much Faffing
  • Much Wittering
  • Muck Landing
  • Mucklesham
  • Mucous Mesa
  • Muddle-on-Avon
  • Mudflap Junction
  • Mudville Heights
  • Mulch Hollow
  • Mumbleton
  • Mumbly Peg
  • Mumps Hollow
  • Mutterton
  • Mutton Junction

N: 15 names

  • Nearly Somewhere
  • Nether Wallop-on-Thames
  • Nitpick Ridge
  • Nitwick
  • Nitwit Landing
  • Nobody's Mill
  • Noggin Knob
  • Noodle Hollow
  • Nope
  • Noplace Special
  • Nosebleed Point
  • Nosepick Ridge
  • Nowhere Junction
  • Nuisance
  • Numbskull Notch

O: 7 names

  • Oddsocks
  • Ogleton
  • Okayish
  • Old Porridge Ford
  • Old Sock Hollow
  • Oops Landing
  • Ooze Landing

P: 31 names

  • Pantsdown
  • Parsnip Point
  • Pending
  • Pickle Bend
  • Piddling Acres
  • Piffle
  • Pigeon Toe Point
  • Piggledy
  • Pigpen Parish
  • Pigsnout Point
  • Pigwash
  • Plodmoor
  • Plodworth
  • Plonkton
  • Plumb Tuckered
  • Poached Egg Hollow
  • Pointless Point
  • Population Three
  • Porkchop Hill
  • Porridge Lane
  • Possum Belly
  • Pothole Plains
  • Pout Hill
  • Pox Hollow
  • Pratfall Point
  • Prune Ridge
  • Puckerbrush
  • Pudding Lane End
  • Puddington Ferry
  • Pusgrove
  • Putter Creek

Q: 5 names

  • Quagmire Gardens
  • Quarrelsworth
  • Quibble Creek
  • Quiet Desperation Heights
  • Quirkshire

R: 9 names

  • Rancid Springs
  • Rhubarb Flats
  • Rickety Ridge
  • Rubbish Ridge
  • Rubble Springs
  • Rumpleton
  • Runny Nose Ridge
  • Rustbucket
  • Ruttington

S: 80 names

  • Sagging Pines
  • Saggy Pants Pass
  • Scabbington
  • Scowlsbury
  • Scrapple Springs
  • Scratchington
  • Scrounge Hollow
  • Scrubbing Brush Bluffs
  • Scruffington
  • Scrunchie Falls
  • Scuffle Springs
  • Scuttle Bend
  • Scuttlebutt Crossing
  • Scuzz Creek
  • Second Opinion Springs
  • Shabbyton
  • Shoelace Junction
  • Shrug Landing
  • Shrugton
  • Skunk Hollow Estates
  • Slackjaw Junction
  • Slapdash Springs
  • Sleepy Sprocket
  • Slightly Overcast
  • Slobberville
  • Slopbucket Springs
  • Sloth Springs
  • Slouchville
  • Sludge Harbor
  • Slug Harbor
  • Sluggish Falls
  • Slumberton
  • Slumpton
  • Slurpington
  • Smudge
  • Snafu
  • Snaggletooth Gap
  • Snarkington
  • Sneaky Pete Landing
  • Sneer Ridge

S, continued

  • Sneezeworth
  • Snickerton
  • Sniffington
  • Snivelham
  • Snootington
  • Snoozeville
  • Snoring Heights
  • Snotford
  • Snoutley
  • Sofa Cushion Crossing
  • Soggy Bottom
  • Soupbone Gap
  • Sour Milk Crossing
  • Spare Room
  • Spatchcock
  • Spitoon Springs
  • Spittle Ridge
  • Splat Landing
  • Splinterville
  • Sprained Ankle Springs
  • Sprocket Springs
  • Spud Landing
  • Sputter Falls
  • Squabbleford
  • Squawk Hollow
  • Squelch
  • Squint Ridge
  • Squishington
  • Stagnant Springs
  • Stale Biscuit
  • Stinkbug Springs
  • Stoat Hollow
  • Stubbington Toe
  • Stubborn Mule Flats
  • Sulk Creek
  • Sump Heights
  • Swampton Abbey
  • Sweatsock Springs
  • Swelter Springs
  • Swine Bend

T: 26 names

  • Tantrum Terrace
  • Tater Gap
  • Tedium Terrace
  • Tepid Bath
  • Tepid Springs
  • Thistlebottom
  • Thudbury
  • Thumbtack Ridge
  • Tiddlywink Crossing
  • Tinfoil Ridge
  • Tizzyville
  • Toadstool Corners
  • Toe Jam Junction
  • Toenail Terrace
  • Trickle Crossing
  • Trifle Point
  • Trolley Park
  • Trundleford
  • Tumble Falls
  • Tumbleweed Terrace
  • Turnip Corners
  • Tut-Tut
  • Twaddleford
  • Twerpton
  • Twitchbury
  • Twitterpate

U: 7 names

  • Ugly Duckling Pond
  • Underwhelm
  • Unremarkable Heights
  • Upper Bunion
  • Upper Lower Middle
  • Upper Nowhere
  • Used Napkin Notch

V: 1 name

  • Vole End

W: 29 names

  • Waddleford
  • Waffleton
  • Wallop Corners
  • Wart Hollow
  • Weak Tea Wells
  • Weasel Creek
  • Wedgie Gap
  • Weedy Bottom
  • Weevil Ridge
  • Wet Paint
  • Wetsock
  • Wheezy Bend
  • Whimper Wells
  • Whingeworth
  • Whittling Parva
  • Whoopsie Falls
  • Wiggle Knob
  • Wigglesworth
  • Wilting Oaks
  • Wobbly Knob
  • Woebegone Wells
  • Wombleton
  • Wonky Wells
  • Worrywort
  • Wrinkle Creek
  • Wrinkleton
  • Wrong Turn
  • Wrongside Crossing
  • Wuss Creek

Y: 4 names

  • Yawnsworth
  • Yesterday's Bread
  • Yokel Flats
  • Yuck Valley

Z: 1 name

  • Zilch