Yesterday when I was on a small road trip to pass the time I was keeping track of city names that we passed that seemed like they could be name-ish to me. I wouldn’t necessarily use them all but I just thought I could imagine someone else using it.
Here’s the list, let me know your thoughts:
Hazen
Shippen
Strattan
Mercer
Clarion
[name_u]Hazen[/name_u] with its likeness to [name_u]Hazel[/name_u] and [name_u]Haven[/name_u] along with [name_u]Mercer[/name_u] and [name_f]Clarion[/name_f] would be nice as names. Shippen and Strattan are a bit too much.
[name_u]Mercer[/name_u] and [name_m]Stratton[/name_m] are cool
Well Klarion is one of my fav boy names so I definitely love that one! I think [name_u]Mercer[/name_u] is cool too and while I’m not a big fan of [name_u]Hazen[/name_u] (reminds me too much of hazing) I do like the sound of it
i am from italy and this is a list of cities i have went to or passed through recently:
venice ( original italian: venezia)
caorle
vicenza
verona
jesolo
mestre
trieste
treviglio (glio is pronounced li
trepoli
Adding from the return trip:
Emlenton
[name_f]Corsica[/name_f]
[name_u]Shaw[/name_u]
Curwen
[name_u]Woodland[/name_u] (I never thought of this as a name before but I feel like it could be a cute alternative to [name_u]Forest[/name_u]. It fits the trends of unique nature word names and names ending in -land)
[name_u]Hazen[/name_u] totally works, in fact I could see -zen become the new -den for boy names.
Shippen is what you would translate “to ship people” (as in be invested in their relationship) to in [name_m]German[/name_m] so that’s hard to take seriously, although with the -en ending, almost anything sounds like a name…
Strattan looks more name-like when spelled [name_m]Stratton[/name_m]. I’d assume it’s a surname name, and maybe even that the surname originally came from a place name, but sure, why not.
[name_u]Mercer[/name_u] is absolutely a name. There is one in Skyrim! I even like the idea of it, but it’s a little too close to “mercenary” for me.
[name_f]Clarion[/name_f] feels like a mashup of [name_f]Clara[/name_f] and [name_u]Marion[/name_u], which on the one hand makes it very name-like and on the other not at all.
@heartwings Funny story, when [name_f]Verona[/name_f] Pooth (2000s TV celebrity) named her son San [name_m]Diego[/name_m], she argued that of course city names are names, for example: her own. I hadn’t even made the connection that both are cities before reading that