Land Name Generator

A land name is the label a mapmaker writes across a region, so it has to work in three ways: it must sound like the culture that lives there, it should hint at the terrain, and it must be short enough to fit between the mountains and the coast. Fantasy has developed a handful of reliable formulas. English compounds join a feature with a terrain suffix: -march (a border territory, as in Westmarch), -mere (lake), -fell (hill), -wold (upland forest), -moor, -fen, -shire, -dale, -reach and -hollow.

Latinate names ending in -ia, -oria and -ora sound like ancient, established realms (Avaloria, Hesperia, Valyria); they suit empires and old kingdoms. Celtic prefixes such as Caer (fortress), Dun (fort), Glen, Tir (land) and Ynys (island) give misty, mythic Britain and Ireland; Norse suffixes -heim, -mark, -holt, -fjord and -gard read as cold and hard; German -gau, -land and -mark suit imperial heartlands, and Semitic and Persian sounds (Qeshmar, Ashtareth, Al-Rashad) evoke desert kingdoms. Descriptive names like the Sunless Reach or the Riverlands are how locals refer to a place before any king claims it.

Below you will find all of these families, including classic regions from Howard's Hyborian Age and the Forgotten Realms for reference, so you can name a continent's worth of lands with consistent flavor.