How do you choose names for your cities/regions?

[xxdita]

I'm a bit narcissistic when it comes to choosing city names.

Las Dita, Santa Dita, Dita Park, Dita Cove... you get the idea. 

[mightygoose]

ditta.... (me too)

[scott1964]

I've been playing SC4 since it first came out. I soon discovered that I was using the same names over and again. I've used maps. I've used the phone book as most cities or towns are named after somone ... like my home town of Jackson Michigan was named after President Andrew Jackson. I now use random name generators to help. 

Here are a couple of suggestions:

Fantasy Place Name Generator

http://nine.frenchboys.net/fantasyplace.php

This thread at SC4D has some links

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=9096.msg280601#msg280601

I've been using this site the longest to find fresh, new, different names. They are sometimes long or silly but I usually shorten them and/or make slight changes. I used this site to name all of my GRVII cities.

http://www.mf2fm.com/RaToNaGe/

Good Luck with your city names

- Jim

For giggles I generated this name: Blotboroughwatervillemouth Harbour 

[antimonycat]

I have a notepad full of names that I add to whenever I hear or think of one that I like. If I need to name something I just look through and find one that sounds suitable.

[CoastRunner]

I use a variety of naming strategies in my city journals and normal gamelay.  Most of it is done in my head.

1. For names like Saxary and Leesburgh, I went back in history, and grabbed the town of Leesburg from the Civil War and reached back to medieval times to take Saxony from the Holy Roman Empire. The addition of an 'h' to Leesburg and the switching to 'ary' of Saxony made them ready to play.

2. For names like Ogden, Akon, Aurora, and Tampica I used a similar but slightly different strategy. I used straight out Ogden, Utah, and Akon and Aurora, Colorado to use for my cities, but used them in entirely different landscape. For Tampica, I used Tampa, and added 'ic' to make it different and more appealing for my city journal.

3. For a name like Namyra, it was a very different situation. I was testing out the May 2010 NAM, NWM, and RHW in a city on a blank region, and named it NAMyra. After it was wiped along with Ogden and some other regions, the name stuck in my mind so I used it for my city journal.