Spanish Town Name Generator

Spanish town names are built from a small vocabulary that repeats across Spain and every country it colonised. Saints come first — San Miguel, Santa Rosa, San Cristóbal — usually followed by "de" and a place, family or feature (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Santa Marta de Tormes). Then there are the settlement words: Villa (town), Villanueva (new town), Puebla (settlement), Aldea (hamlet), Puerto (port or mountain pass), Torre (tower), Castillo (castle) and Fuente (spring), each typically paired with a landowner or a river, as in Villanueva del Fresno, Fuente Obejuna or Puerto de Béjar.

The third layer is pure landscape: Peñas Blancas (white crags), Ojos Negros (black springs), Río Seco, Agua Dulce, Cerro Azul, El Almendro (the almond tree), La Higuera (the fig tree). Arabic survives in Spain in Al- and Guad- names like Alquézar, Albarracín and Alburquerque, and in Latin America Indigenous names sit alongside Spanish ones — Tepoztlán, Chichicastenango, Ollantaytambo — often glued to a saint's name.

This list draws mainly on real, lesser-known pueblos in Spain, Mexico, Central America and the Andes, plus a set of invented names that follow the same rules. Choose a saint-plus-place name for a colonial or Western setting, a Villa- or Puebla- name for old Castile, and a landscape name for a village at the edge of the map.