Waterfall Name Generator

Angel Falls in Venezuela (the tallest), Niagara Falls on the US-Canada border, Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe, Iguazu Falls between Argentina and Brazil, Yosemite Falls in California, Gullfoss and Skógafoss in Iceland, Kaieteur Falls in Guyana, Tugela Falls in South Africa, Plitvice in Croatia and Huangguoshu in China. Many of the biggest have local names too, such as Mosi-oa-Tunya for Victoria Falls and Kerepakupai Merú for Angel Falls.

A waterfall is the general term for water dropping over a vertical or near-vertical ledge. A cascade is a series of small steps or a fall that slides over rock rather than free-falling. A cataract is a very large, powerful fall or rapid, often the full width of a big river, as in the cataracts of the Nile. Plunge, horsetail, punchbowl, fan, block, tiered and segmented describe the shape of a fall.

Pick one concrete detail and a generic word that matches the culture: Ravenmere Falls, Hrafnafoss, Eas Dubh and Rhaeadr Ddu all mean roughly 'black or raven fall' and each places the waterfall in a different world. Keep invented names short, give the biggest one a legend (the Roaring Mother, Godsfall Cataract) and let the small ones be plain like Cold Spring Cascade or Otter Slide Falls.

Yes. The invented names are free to use, and real waterfall names are place names rather than trademarks, so they are fine in fiction. For tabletop maps the English and fantasy names slot straight into any setting; the foss, linn, rhaeadr and salto names are useful when you want a region to feel Norse, Scottish, Welsh or Spanish without saying so.