Post-Apocalyptic Town Name Generator

Survivor settlements, scrap towns and bunker communities

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Names for settlements after the end of the world, such as Hubcap Hill, Fresh Start, The Bleachers, Silo Juniper and Trader's Rest. The list covers scrap towns, trade posts, bunker communities, raider forts, farming communes and safe zones.

About Post-Apocalyptic town names

A town after the collapse is named by the people who live in it, usually for the thing that keeps them alive or the ruin they moved into. That gives the names a plain, second-hand sound: Girder Row was built from salvage, The Bleachers fills an old stadium, and Three Wells tells travelers what they will find there. The list is written for wasteland fiction, zombie campaigns and survival games, and every entry is meant to read as an inhabited place.

It runs through eleven styles: scrap towns, hopeful refoundings such as Fresh Start and New Roots, renamed landmarks, names read off broken signs (Elcome, Otel, Gas Foo Lodg), signs that survived whole (No Vacancy, Last Gas), bunker and silo designations, trade posts and caravan stops, raider forts, farming and water towns, outbreak safe zones, and places marked by fallout, plague, flood or ice.

The tone of a name tells the reader who runs the place. Shared Table and Harvest Home expect visitors, Fort Spite and No Quarter do not, and Station Marigold suggests a community that still follows an old filing system. The names are written in the general style of wasteland fiction rather than for one game, film or book, so they fit most ruined worlds you are building.

How to choose Post-Apocalyptic town names

  • Name the town after what it guards. Water, fuel, walls and seed are worth more than ideals, so Deepwell or Diesel Springs tells travelers why people stay.
  • Let outsiders and locals disagree. Residents may say Sunrise Commons while caravans call the same place The Heap, and the two names give you politics before anyone speaks.
  • Use a broken-sign name for a town that grew without a plan. Nobody chose Harmacy or Owling Lanes; people just started saying what the wall said.
  • Keep designations for places with an old chain of command. Bunker Alder or Shelter Four West implies records, rules and someone who still reads them.
  • Match the disaster. Stilt Town and Levee Top belong to a drowned coast, Permafrost and Warm Room to a long winter, Dosimeter and Glass Flats to a nuclear setting.

Frequently asked questions

How do I name a post-apocalyptic town?

Start with what the survivors found when they arrived: a building, a resource or a sign. Then shorten it the way people do when they say a name every day. That is how you get names like Turbine Hall, Rain Catch and Tollbooth, which all appear in this list.

Can I use these names in a Fallout, zombie or Mad Max style campaign?

Yes. The names follow the general style of wasteland fiction rather than any one series, so they can sit beside a setting's own locations. Plain words do turn up in published settings too, so look at your setting's own map if a clash would matter. Scrap names such as Hubcap Hill suit a desert road setting, while Double Fence and Quarantine Gate suit an outbreak.

What is a broken-sign name?

It is a name survivors read off whatever lettering was left on a building. Elcome was a welcome sign, Otel a motel, and Gas Foo Lodg a highway services board. The signs behind these entries are ordinary generic ones, so you can place the town anywhere.

Which names suit a hostile settlement?

Look at the raider and warlord entries: Fort Spite, Razorwire, Choke Point, Tribute and Brigand's Bridge all warn a traveler before the gate does. For a place that is dangerous in a quieter way, a rule turned into a name works well, such as Curfew, Keep Out or Employees Only.

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All 500 Post-Apocalyptic town names

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: 17 names

  • Actory Outlet
  • Afterglow
  • Airlock
  • Aisle Nine
  • All Clear
  • Ambush Alley
  • Apothecary
  • Apple Cellar
  • Aquifer
  • Ar Wash
  • Arcad
  • Arden Center
  • Ardware
  • Ashfall
  • Ashline
  • Auto Par
  • Axle Bend

B: 31 names

  • Bait and Tackl
  • Bandit Ridge
  • Barber Sho
  • Barley Bend
  • Barricade
  • Bean Rows
  • Before Dark
  • Bell Tower
  • Bent Nail
  • Better Days
  • Big Man's Hill
  • Black Flag
  • Blast Door
  • Boarded Up
  • Boil Order
  • Boilwater
  • Bolt Bucket
  • Borehole
  • Brary
  • Brass Tacks
  • Breaker's Lane
  • Breakwater
  • Bridge Out
  • Brigand's Bridge
  • Bright Morning
  • Brimstone Keep
  • Broken Teeth
  • Bunker Alder
  • Bunker Magpie
  • Bunker Thursday
  • Bunker Twelve

C: 51 names

  • Camp Payback
  • Camp Stillness
  • Camp Whisper
  • Candlelight
  • Cannery
  • Cartwheel
  • Cellar Door
  • Cellblock
  • Chain Link
  • Chainyard
  • Checkpoint Rose
  • Chit House
  • Choke Point
  • Chool Zone
  • Cinder Cone
  • Cinderblock
  • Cistern Hill
  • Civil Defense Eleven
  • Clean Bill
  • Clear Count
  • Clear Sky
  • Clearwell
  • Click Count
  • Closed Mondays
  • Cloverleaf
  • Clubhouse
  • Coalstove
  • Coil Spring
  • Coin Flip
  • Cold Snap
  • Cold Storage
  • Come Again
  • Coming Soon
  • Common Ground
  • Concrete Garden
  • Control Tower
  • Convoy Rest
  • Cooling Towers
  • Copper Pile
  • Cornerstone
  • Corrugate
  • Courthouse Square
  • Crankshaft Corner
  • Crater Rim
  • Cratewood
  • Crossroads Market
  • Crow's Feast
  • Crow's Nest
  • Crowbar
  • Curfew
  • Customs House

D: 22 names

  • Dam Top
  • Day One
  • Daybreak
  • Dead End
  • Deadbolt
  • Deep Shelter Six
  • Deepwell
  • Detour
  • Dew Point
  • Diesel Springs
  • Dog Watch
  • Dollar Sto
  • Dosimeter
  • Double Fence
  • Down Below
  • Downwind
  • Drawbridge
  • Driftwood Landing
  • Drive-In
  • Drovers' Yard
  • Dry Goods
  • Drydock

E: 7 names

  • Eat Here
  • Elcome
  • Employees Only
  • Escalator Falls
  • Everything Must Go
  • Exit 9
  • Exit Only

F: 31 names

  • Fair Price
  • Fairgrounds
  • Fallback Point
  • Falling Rock
  • Fallow
  • Feed and See
  • Fenceline
  • Fender Flat
  • Ferry Slip
  • Fever Break
  • Field Hospital
  • Fifty Yard Line
  • Firehouse Five
  • First Furrow
  • First Harvest
  • First Light
  • Fish Ladder
  • Flare Hill
  • Floodgate
  • Flotsam
  • Flywheel
  • Food Court
  • For Lease
  • Fort Evergreen
  • Fort Grudge
  • Fort Reckoning
  • Fort Spite
  • Free Air
  • Fresh Start
  • Frost Fence
  • Furnace Row

G: 17 names

  • Gas Foo Lodg
  • Gasket
  • Gatehouse
  • Geiger
  • Generator Hall
  • Girder Row
  • Glacier's Edge
  • Glass Flats
  • Gleaners' Rest
  • Goat Hill
  • Good Morning
  • Good Water
  • Grain Elevator
  • Granary
  • Grandstand
  • Greenrow
  • Gymnasium

H: 28 names

  • Haggle
  • Halfway House
  • Handshake
  • Hapel
  • Harmacy
  • Harvest Home
  • Hatch Seven
  • Hauler's Haven
  • Havenwood
  • Hearthfire
  • Hearthstead
  • Heater
  • Hen House
  • High Ground
  • High Tide
  • Highwayman's Rest
  • Holdfast
  • Holdout
  • Home by Dusk
  • Home Plate
  • Homecoming
  • Homeroom
  • Honest Scale
  • Honeycomb
  • Hope Springs
  • Hopewell
  • Hubcap Hill
  • Hush

I: 7 names

  • Icehouse
  • Inema
  • Iner
  • Ire Station
  • Iron Jaw
  • Ironclad
  • Irport

J: 3 names

  • Jack Stand
  • Jackal Camp
  • Jawbone

K: 2 names

  • Keep Out
  • Kindling

L: 22 names

  • Ladder Up
  • Lantern Haven
  • Lantern Market
  • Last Gas
  • Last Stop
  • Laund
  • Layover
  • Lazaretto
  • Lead Lining
  • Ledger
  • Levee Top
  • Level Minus Four
  • Lighthouse
  • Lights Out
  • Long Haul
  • Long Table
  • Longnight
  • Longsleep
  • Lost and Found
  • Lot Full
  • Low Clearance
  • Lugnut

M: 16 names

  • Marauder's Mile
  • Mask Market
  • Mending
  • Mercy
  • Mercy Gate
  • Merge
  • Midway
  • Mile Marker 40
  • Mill Race
  • Mini Gol
  • Moat House
  • Motor Court
  • Muffler Creek
  • Mule Stop
  • Museum Steps
  • Muster Station

N: 14 names

  • Neutral Ground
  • New Hearth
  • New Lantern
  • New Leaf
  • New Roots
  • Newfound
  • Next Services
  • Night Market
  • Ninety Feet Down
  • Niversity
  • No Outlet
  • No Quarter
  • No Vacancy
  • Now Hiring

O: 15 names

  • Oildrum
  • Old Nails
  • Olice
  • Open Door
  • Open Late
  • Orchard House
  • Ospital
  • Ost Office
  • Otel
  • Otor Inn
  • Ourthouse
  • Out of Order
  • Overpass Row
  • Owling Lanes
  • Oxide

P: 19 names

  • Pack Mule Junction
  • Patchwork
  • Peddler's Row
  • Permafrost
  • Pest House
  • Pickers' End
  • Pier End
  • Piston Gap
  • Platform Six
  • Plowshare
  • Plunder Point
  • Pontoon
  • Portage
  • Potluck
  • Powder Keg
  • Promise
  • Pump Handle
  • Pump Nine
  • Pumphouse

Q: 3 names

  • Quarantine Gate
  • Quiet Haven
  • Quiet Side

R: 31 names

  • Ragbolt
  • Rain Barrel
  • Rain Catch
  • Ransom
  • Razorwire
  • Rebar Flats
  • Rebuild
  • Redoubt Nine
  • Refuge
  • Rekindle
  • Relay Station Birch
  • Reprieve
  • Respite
  • Rest Area
  • Rest Easy
  • Rest Stop
  • Returns
  • Rig Yard
  • Rimtown
  • River Island
  • Road Closed
  • Roadhouse
  • Rocery
  • Roentgen
  • Roll Call
  • Rooftop Gardens
  • Rooftop Harbor
  • Root Cellar
  • Roundhouse
  • Rug Store
  • Rust Bucket

S: 69 names

  • Safe Harbor
  • Salt Market
  • Saltline
  • Salvage Landing
  • Sandbag Row
  • Sawtooth
  • Scaffold
  • Scarecrow
  • Scenic Overlook
  • School Bus Circle
  • Schoolhouse
  • Scoreboard
  • Scorpion Pit
  • Scrap Hollow
  • Sealed Door
  • Seawall
  • Second Chance
  • Second Hand
  • Second Spring
  • Seed Bank
  • Seedling
  • Self Serv
  • Shaft Two
  • Shakedown
  • Shared Table
  • Sheet Metal Square
  • Shelter Dove
  • Shelter Four West
  • Shelter Lullaby
  • Shelter Oak
  • Signal Fire
  • Silo Juniper
  • Silo Parallel
  • Silo Two Deep

S, continued

  • Silo Wren
  • Skate Lan
  • Skybridge
  • Slagheap
  • Solder
  • Spare Parts
  • Spike Wall
  • Spillway
  • Spire Island
  • Spring House
  • Sprocket
  • Square Deal
  • Squash Blossom
  • Standpipe
  • Startover
  • Station Marigold
  • Station Orchard
  • Station Twelve North
  • Steadfast
  • Steam Tunnel
  • Steeple Rock
  • Still Breathing
  • Stillhere
  • Stilt Town
  • Storm Cellar
  • Stovepipe
  • Stripped Frame
  • Strongroom
  • Sublevel Green
  • Substation
  • Sunflower Ridge
  • Sunrise Commons
  • Swap Meet
  • Sweetwater
  • Switchyard

T: 63 names

  • Tack and Feed
  • Tadium
  • Tailpipe
  • Tarp City
  • Tater Patch
  • Terrace Farm
  • Thaw Line
  • The Allotments
  • The Atrium
  • The Baron's Dam
  • The Bazaar
  • The Bleachers
  • The Cistern
  • The Exchange
  • The Gallows
  • The Hatch
  • The Heap
  • The Hitching Post
  • The Hundred Steps
  • The Infirmary
  • The Kennels
  • The Lockbox
  • The Magpie's Nest
  • The Marquee
  • The Pantry
  • The Pen
  • The Pit
  • The Quad
  • The Quiet
  • The Scales
  • The Shallows

T, continued

  • The Stacks
  • The Stockade
  • The Terminal
  • The Wire
  • The Yard
  • Third Floor Up
  • Third Story Dock
  • Three Wells
  • Threshing Floor
  • Threshold
  • Tideline
  • Tin Market
  • Tin Roof
  • Tinker's Lot
  • Tiptoe
  • Tire Wall
  • Toll Bridge
  • Toll Plaza
  • Tollbooth
  • Tomorrow
  • Topsoil
  • Trader's Rest
  • Trailer Par
  • Treehouse
  • Tribute
  • Tripwire
  • Truce Ground
  • Truck Stop
  • Tunnel Eight
  • Turbine Hall
  • Turnbuckle
  • Turnip Flats

U: 8 names

  • Ube and Oil
  • Umber Yard
  • Under New Management
  • Undercroft
  • Underpass
  • Uper Mart
  • Upper Deck
  • Us Depot

V: 4 names

  • Vacanc
  • Vent Shaft
  • Viper Nest
  • Vulture's Roost

W: 18 names

  • Wagon Circle
  • Warden's Gate
  • Warlord's Seat
  • Warm Room
  • Wash Station
  • Watchfire
  • Water Tower
  • Water Wheel
  • Waypoint
  • Waystation
  • Wellhead
  • Wet Floor
  • Windmill Commons
  • Wintering
  • Wolf Den
  • Woodpile
  • Wreck Row
  • Wreckers' Yard

Y: 2 names

  • Yellow Flag
  • Yield