Place Names

218 Place names that mean place for girls, listing Place baby names 1-20. Afton, Alexandria, Ariel, Ashley and Ashton are popular names. Aberdeen, Abilene, Acadia, Africa, Ailsa, Ainsley, Alcestis, Amalfi, Ansley, Aphra, Arcadia, Arden, Arizona, Ashby and Aston are uncommon names. View Place baby names for name meanings, search Place names for boys, or search other baby names.

Aberdeen ... Place name: city in northeast Scotland.

Abilene ... Place name: town in Texas ... [4]

Acadia ... "Place of plenty." Place name: the French settlers of Nova Scotia called it Acadia after the name of a river there.

Africa ... Place name for the continent. [13]

Afton ... Place name: a town in southern Scotland. [1]

Ailsa ... Place name: the tiny Scottish rocky islet Ailsa Craig in the estuary of the river Clyde ... [5]

Ainsley ... Originally a place name ... [7]

Alcestis ... Alcestis descends to Hades in place of her husband ...

Alexandria ... Also a place name in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Virginia.

Amalfi Place name: Italian town and part of coastline overlooking the Gulf of Salerno. [2]

Ansley ... Place name. Variant of Ainsley. [6]

Aphra ... The respelling of the name to Aphra may be due to Aphrah as biblical place name, meaning "dust" ... [3]

Arcadia ... Also originally the place name of a mountainous region in Greece which came to symbolize the home of simple and rustic pastoral happiness, and later ... [1]

Arden ... Literary: the Forest of Arden in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" was a magically beautiful place ... [6]

Ariel ... Biblical place name for Jerusalem. Literary ... [11]

Arizona Place name: southwestern American state ...

Ashby ... Place name. [2]

Ashley ... English surname and place name first used as a given name in the 16th century ... [22]

Ashton ... Place name used occasionally as a boy's name in England in the 1600s ... [2]

Aston ... Place name.

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