New York Name Generator

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Generate New York place names that sound like they came off a subway map or a Hudson Valley road sign: invented NYC neighborhoods, Dutch-rooted upstate villages, Lenape-style Long Island hamlets, downtown slips and alleys, parks, stations, kills and coves. Built for novels, screenplays, tabletop cities and game maps set in the Empire State.

About New York names

New York place names are a stack of four languages laid down in order. The Lenape and Iroquoian layer survives in words like Canarsie, Manhasset, Sagaponack, Canajoharie and Skaneateles, usually attached to water, necks of land or hills. The Dutch layer left Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bowery, Spuyten Duyvil, every -kill (creek), -wyck and -hook, and a roster of surnames that became streets and neighborhoods: Stuyvesant, Wyckoff, Lefferts, Van Cortlandt, Schermerhorn. The English added Kings, Queens, Richmond, Fort names and the Slips that once cut into the East River shoreline. Then nineteenth-century surveyors planted a classical atlas upstate, which is why Troy, Utica, Ithaca, Rome, Homer and Ovid sit a short drive apart.

A fictional New York name convinces when it borrows one of those layers. An NYC neighborhood wants a Dutch or English surname plus Hill, Hook, Point, Heights, Flats or Slope, or a trade memory like Tinsmith Square or Gashouse Flats. An upstate village wants a founder plus -ville or -burgh, a Dutch -kill, an Iroquoian river word, or a Roman senator. Long Island hamlets lean on -ogue, -auk and Neck.

This list mixes all of those registers, plus slips, alleys, parks, stations, marshes and kills, so you can populate an invented borough or an upstate county without pointing at a famous real address.

How to choose New York names

  • Pick the layer before the name: Dutch surname + Hook or Slope for Brooklyn and the Bronx, Lenape-style -ogue or Neck for Long Island, founder + -ville or a Roman name for upstate.
  • Real NYC neighborhoods are often named for a landowner (Lefferts, Wyckoff, Cortelyou) or a lost feature (Vinegar Hill, Gashouse District); an invented one that follows suit reads as if it has history.
  • For an address in a screenplay or mockup, a downtown Slip, Alley or Mews sounds more authentically New York than another Street, and almost none of the short ones are famous.
  • Upstate, cluster the classical names together and the Dutch -kill names together, the way they actually sit on the map; mixing them in one valley breaks the illusion.
  • Use the water names (kills, basins, coves, marshes) to anchor a district: a neighborhood called Kettle Hook beside Kettle Hook Creek explains itself.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real New York places?

Mostly no. A few lesser-known real names are included for flavor (Peck Slip, Spuyten Duyvil, Fort Crailo), but the bulk are invented names assembled from genuine New York ingredients, such as Dutch surnames, Lenape and Iroquoian words, trade names and classical revival names, so they sound real without pointing at an actual address.

Why do so many New York towns have Greek and Roman names?

After the Revolution, New York's Military Tract and other surveyed lands upstate were given classical names by state clerks with an enthusiasm for antiquity. That is why Troy, Utica, Ithaca, Syracuse, Rome, Homer, Ovid, Cicero, Ulysses and Romulus are all in the state. Our list adds invented entries in that same tradition.

What does -kill mean in New York place names?

Kill comes from the Dutch kil, meaning a creek or channel. Fishkill, Catskill, Peekskill, Fresh Kills and the Kill Van Kull all use it. If you want an invented upstate or Staten Island waterway to sound local, a Dutch surname or descriptive word plus -kill is the most reliable pattern.

Can I use these names in a published novel, game or film?

Yes. Place names are not protected by copyright and these are free to use in fiction, games, maps and mockups. If you want to avoid any confusion with real locations, pick the clearly invented entries rather than the handful of historical ones.

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

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A: 6 names

  • Agrippa Falls
  • Amersfort Place
  • Amity Slope
  • Aqueduct Hollow
  • Astor Commons
  • Astorburgh

B: 42 names

  • Ballast Alley
  • Bandit's Roost
  • Barren Flats
  • Bartonville Station
  • Battery Walk
  • Bear Swamp Corners
  • Bennett's Hook
  • Bergen Hook
  • Bergen Kill
  • Bevier Hollow
  • Binnewater Corners
  • Bittern Marsh
  • Blackwell's Reach
  • Bleecker Row
  • Bleeckerville
  • Bloodgood Hill
  • Bloomingdale Row
  • Bluestone Hollow
  • Boerum Reach
  • Bogardus Flats
  • Bogart Hollow
  • Boiler Works Slope
  • Bolton Point
  • Bosenkill
  • Bosun's Bar
  • Bottle Alley
  • Bowery Heights
  • Bowne Row
  • Bradt's Landing
  • Breuckelen Row
  • Brevoort Hill
  • Breweryville
  • Brewhouse Alley
  • Brightwater Bay
  • Brinckerhoff Corners
  • Bronck's Landing
  • Bronxdale Hook
  • Burling Slip
  • Burrville
  • Bushnell Basin
  • Bussing Flats
  • Buttermilk Reach

C: 45 names

  • Cadman Green
  • Canal Street Basin
  • Canarsee Point
  • Canaseraga Bend
  • Canisteo Bend
  • Carmansville
  • Carter's Yard
  • Cartman's Alley
  • Carver Terrace
  • Castle Garden Green
  • Catatonk Mills
  • Catsbaan Corners
  • Cattaraugus Forks
  • Cayadutta Falls
  • Cementon Flats
  • Chandlery Hook
  • Chemung Forks
  • Cherry Hill Place
  • Cider Mill Flats
  • Clason Bluffs
  • Clevelandsburgh
  • Clintonburgh
  • Clove Notch
  • Coal Pocket Reach
  • Coenties Alley
  • Conselyea Point
  • Cooper's Hook
  • Cooper's Slip
  • Cooperage Row
  • Cooperage Slip
  • Cooperstown Junction
  • Cordage Row
  • Cordwainer's Slip
  • Corinth Bend
  • Cortelyou Crest
  • Cortlandt Hall
  • Coxsackie Flats
  • Cranberry Creek Mills
  • Cromwell Reach
  • Cropsey Flats
  • Crotona Pond
  • Cruger Point
  • Cutchaug Harbor
  • Cuyler Place
  • Cuyler's Cove

D: 21 names

  • Dahlgren Point
  • Decker Kill
  • Degraw Mews
  • Delphi Falls
  • Depew Junction
  • Devoe Landing
  • Dewittburg
  • Deyo Falls
  • Dikeman Row
  • Dimon Street
  • Ditmars Bend
  • Ditmas Crest
  • Dix Hollow
  • Dock Street Flats
  • Dorrance Mills
  • Drydock Hollow
  • DuBois Corners
  • Duryea Hill
  • Dutch Hill
  • Dutchman's Kill
  • Dyeworks Reach

E: 5 names

  • Eastchester Shoal
  • Ellicott Mills
  • Elting Corners
  • Esopus Point
  • Essex Market Annex

F: 23 names

  • Fabius Hollow
  • Featherbed Lane
  • Feeder Dam Landing
  • Fentonville
  • Ferris Hill
  • Ferryman's Landing
  • Flatlands Slip
  • Forge Hollow
  • Fort Crailo
  • Fort Greylock
  • Fort Hunter Flats
  • Fort Klock
  • Fort Nassau Landing
  • Fort Orange Flats
  • Fort Stanwix Village
  • Fort Tilden Dunes
  • Fort Totten Village
  • Foundry Hook
  • Freer Landing
  • Fulling Mill Landing
  • Fulling Mill Street
  • Fulton Fish Hall
  • Furnace Bend

G: 24 names

  • Gansevoort Market Hall
  • Gansevoortport
  • Garrison Walk
  • Gashouse Flats
  • Gasworks Hollow
  • Gelston Mews
  • Genesee Mills
  • Gillett Falls
  • Glass Factory Corners
  • Gleason Hill
  • Glenmere
  • Glue Factory Flats
  • Goelet Terrace
  • Goethals Marsh
  • Gorham Flats
  • Gouverneur Slip
  • Gowanus Reach
  • Gowanus Viaduct
  • Gracchus Mills
  • Great Kills Cove
  • Greenhook Street
  • Greig Falls
  • Groesbeck Hollow
  • Gunner's Alley

H: 33 names

  • Hague Street
  • Hallett's Landing
  • Halletts Cove
  • Hamiltonport
  • Hardenbergh Hollow
  • Hargrave Corners
  • Harrimanville
  • Harsenville Square
  • Hasbrouck Landing
  • Hassock Hill
  • Hassock Island
  • Havemeyer Hill
  • Hay Slip
  • Hegeman Walk
  • Hell Gate Crossing
  • Hemlock Notch
  • Herald Commons
  • Herkimer Landing
  • Hicks Walk
  • High Falls Landing
  • Hobartville
  • Hog Island
  • Hollis Point
  • Honeoye Flats
  • Hooglandt Station
  • Hooglandt Street
  • Hoosic Bend
  • Hop Barn Hollow
  • Horatius Hollow
  • Hosmer Corners
  • Huguenot Landing
  • Huntington Flats
  • Hurleywyck

I: 4 names

  • Ice House Flats
  • Ice Pond Corners
  • Ilion Hollow
  • Ironbound Heights

J: 3 names

  • Jayville
  • Jeromeville
  • Juno Corners

K: 18 names

  • Kaatsberg Hollow
  • Kayaderosseras
  • Kellogg Corners
  • Kerosene Row
  • Ketchaponack
  • Kettle Hook
  • Kettle Hook Creek
  • Kettle Hook Terminal
  • Kiefer Place
  • Kiersted Falls
  • Kiln Hook
  • Kimball Hill
  • Kinderhook Mills
  • Kloosterkill
  • Kolonie Hill
  • Kouwenhoven Square
  • Kripplebush
  • Krumville Flats

L: 30 names

  • Lamplighter Lane
  • Lansingport
  • LeFevre Mills
  • Lefferts Landing
  • Lefferts Market
  • Lenape Hollow
  • Lenape Walk
  • Limekiln Landing
  • Lispenard Flats
  • Little Accra
  • Little Addis
  • Little Antwerp
  • Little Bremen
  • Little Bukhara
  • Little Galway
  • Little Kraków
  • Little Kyiv
  • Little Palermo
  • Little Salonika
  • Little Trinidad
  • Livingstonburgh
  • Livy Mills
  • Lockhouse Flats
  • Lomontville
  • Loomis Mills
  • Lorillard Hill
  • Lott Gardens
  • Lozier Point
  • Lucan Hollow
  • Luyster Marsh

M: 21 names

  • Macombs Flats
  • Macready Slip
  • Malt House Hill
  • Mangin Hill
  • Manhansett Landing
  • Manlius Square
  • Marble Flats
  • Marketfield Street
  • Marrow Hill
  • Massaquog
  • Massaquoit Point
  • Matinnecock Point
  • Merrickoke
  • Meserole Flats
  • Mill Rock Heights
  • Morganport
  • Morrisburgh
  • Muscoota Creek
  • Muscoota Street
  • Mussel Bar
  • Mynderse Mills

N: 12 names

  • Nagle Hollow
  • Nehemiah Place
  • Nemea Falls
  • Nesaquake Neck
  • New Carthage
  • Newtown Creek Footbridge
  • Nieuw Utrecht Walk
  • Niskayuna Point
  • Nissaquogue Bluffs
  • Nostrand Terrace
  • Numa Corners
  • Nye Hollow

O: 19 names

  • Oakland Pond
  • Old Ferry Street
  • Old Ferry Terminal
  • Old Mill Kill
  • Old Ropewalk
  • Old Slip
  • Olynthus
  • Onderdonk Slope
  • Onteora Falls
  • Oosterhout Mills
  • Oquaga Lake Village
  • Orchard Slip
  • Oriskany Flats
  • Ostia Landing
  • Ovington Hook
  • Owasco Flats
  • Oyster Island
  • Oyster Shell Row
  • Oysterman's Point

P: 22 names

  • Packinghouse Slope
  • Paddock Corners
  • Palatine Row
  • Palenville Gap
  • Paper Mill Falls
  • Patcham Landing
  • Patchaquog Neck
  • Paumanok Neck
  • Peck Slip
  • Peck Slip Landing
  • Pella Corners
  • Phelpsboro
  • Pilot's Slip
  • Platte Clove Landing
  • Pliny Corners
  • Polhemus Reach
  • Poppenhusen Point
  • Porterfield
  • Pot Cove
  • Pratt Falls
  • Pugsley Slope
  • Pulteney Square

Q: 7 names

  • Quackenbush Landing
  • Quackenkill
  • Quaker Hill Flats
  • Quarry Cove
  • Quentin Grove
  • Quiogue Dunes
  • Quogonsett Neck

R: 25 names

  • Rag Market Hollow
  • Ragpickers Row
  • Ransom Flats
  • Rapelye Point
  • Raritan Shoal
  • Ravenswood Green
  • Red Hook Flats
  • Regulus Flats
  • Remsen Hollow
  • Rensselaerwyck
  • Rhinelander Hollow
  • Richmond Kill
  • Rockawaug
  • Rockaway Reach
  • Rockefeller Landing
  • Rondout Bend
  • Ronkonquot Hollow
  • Rooseveltville
  • Ropery Hill
  • Ropewalk Basin
  • Ropewalk Green
  • Ropewalk Lane
  • Ruggles Place
  • Ryerson Heights
  • Ryker Gardens

S: 54 names

  • Sacandaga Landing
  • Sacatogue Dunes
  • Sackett Slope
  • Sagtaskett Neck
  • Sailmaker's Point
  • Salt Lick Falls
  • Salt Meadow Flats
  • Sawkill Falls
  • Sawmill Kill
  • Schaghticoke Mills
  • Schenck Hollow
  • Schermerhorn Row
  • Schermerhorn Terminal
  • Schodack Hollow
  • Schoonmaker's Landing
  • Schuyler Flats
  • Schuylerton
  • Scipio Corners
  • Seagate Bluffs
  • Secatogue Harbor
  • Sedge Island
  • Sempronius Corners
  • Setaukett Cove
  • Seton Flats
  • Sewanhaka Point
  • Sewardsburgh
  • Seymourton
  • Sheepshead Inlet
  • Shinnecoque Hills
  • Ship Chandler's Mews
  • Shipyard Reach
  • Silver Creek Mills
  • Skanesee
  • Skillman Gardens
  • Slate Hill Junction
  • Slingerland Mills
  • Snediker Slope
  • Soap Works Slope
  • Sparta Mills
  • Spuyten Duyvil Span
  • Spuyten Reach
  • Staats Kill
  • Steinway Flats
  • Stillman Mills
  • Stonecrop Hill
  • Stuyvesant Arcade
  • Stuyvesant Hollow
  • Stuyvesant Landing
  • Sugar Wharf
  • Sugarhouse Row
  • Sulla Bend
  • Suydam Hollow
  • Swartwout Hollow
  • Swits Kill

T: 33 names

  • Tacitus Landing
  • Tallow Row
  • Tanner's Slip
  • Tanners Creek
  • Tannery Flats
  • Tanyard Corners
  • Tarquin Mills
  • Tarsus Flats
  • Ten Broeck Mills
  • Ten Eyck Hollow
  • Ten Eyck Walk
  • Tenement Hill
  • Tenmile Landing
  • Teunis Hollow
  • The Bergen Hotel
  • The Stockyards
  • The Wyckoff Arms
  • Thebes Landing
  • Thessaly
  • Throckmorton Place
  • Throgs Reach
  • Tibbits Hollow
  • Tiebout Hill
  • Tiffany Landing
  • Tildenport
  • Tinsmith Square
  • Tioughnioga Landing
  • Tompkins Commons
  • Tompkinsville Corners
  • Tonowandah
  • Towpath Corners
  • Tremainburgh
  • Turtle Cove

U: 2 names

  • Udalls Marsh
  • Unkechaug Hollow

V: 32 names

  • Valentine Flats
  • Van Alstyne Corners
  • Van Brunt Row
  • Van Burenville
  • Van Buskirk Landing
  • Van Cortlandt Marsh
  • Van Deusen Mills
  • Van Dyke Basin
  • Van Loon Hollow
  • Van Nuyse Flats
  • Van Pelt Gardens
  • Van Sicklen Park
  • Van Wagenen Bend
  • Van Zandt Hook
  • Vanderbilt Basin
  • Vanderbilt Causeway
  • Vanderbilt Falls
  • Vanderbilt Place
  • Vanderkill
  • Vanderveer Commons
  • Vanderveer Junction
  • Vandervoort Slope
  • Vandewater Street
  • Varian Hollow
  • Veeder Corners
  • Verdi Green
  • Vesta Falls
  • Vinegar Hill Green
  • Vly Corners
  • Voorhies Point
  • Vosburgh Kill
  • Vroomanskill

W: 18 names

  • Wadhams Falls
  • Wadsworth Corners
  • Wadsworth Terrace
  • Wallabout Cove
  • Wallabout Marsh
  • Walloon Point
  • Wantaqueset
  • Warden's Mews
  • Washington Market Green
  • Whiteport Landing
  • Whitney Mills
  • Willets Edge
  • Williamsonville
  • Wiltwyck Falls
  • Wortman Flats
  • Wyckhook
  • Wyckoff Hook
  • Wynkoop Hollow

Z: 1 name

  • Zerega Point