Hill Name Generator

A hill is any raised landform lower than a mountain, with no fixed height limit. A tor is a rocky outcrop or a hill topped by one, common on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. A knoll (knowe in Scots) is a small rounded hill. Downs are the open, gently rolling chalk hills of southern England. Law, knock, cnoc, bryn, moel, howe, butte and knob are all regional words for roughly the same thing.

Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, the Hill of Tara in Ireland, Glastonbury Tor and Silbury Hill in England, Pendle Hill, Box Hill, the Wrekin, Mam Tor, Bunker Hill and Beacon Hill in the United States, Capitol Hill, Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill, Montmartre in Paris, the Palatine and Capitoline hills of Rome, Lycabettus and the Areopagus in Athens, and Spion Kop in South Africa.

Borrow the structure of real names: a plain descriptive word plus a regional generic. Ravenshowe, Thornwatch Knoll and Oathknoll sound like places people have lived beside for centuries because they follow the same pattern as Raven Hill, Beacon Knoll and Moot Hill. Use one dramatic name for a plot-critical hill and surround it with ordinary ones.

Yes. Real hill names are place names, not trademarks, and the invented ones are free to use. For a Tolkien-style setting the barrow, howe and beacon names fit well; for a Western or frontier world use knob, butte and the blunt American names; for Celtic-flavored worlds reach for the cnoc, bryn and law names.