Native American Sounding Settlement Names
These charts help you invent Native American sounding settlement names. (You can use them for cities too, but that may not fit with a Native American setting. Further, you can use them for other proper nouns in a Native American setting.) For an overview and charts for city names of other cultures, see the main Random (or not) City Name Charts page.
Note that these are really based on names of cities in just one area of the United States (in and near eastern Pennsylvania) so they probably come from just a few different Native American nations. Eventually we may do more charts based on other parts of North America or even Central and South America.
Step 1: Determine which columns to use in step 2
d6 | Columns to Use |
---|---|
1-2 | 1 + 2 + 3 |
3 | 1 + 2 + 3 |
4 | 1 + 2 + 4 |
5 | 1 + 3 + 4 |
6 | 2 + 3 + 4 |
Step 2: Roll for each column as determined in step 1
d20 | Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Al | A | Da | A |
2 | Ca | An | Dau | Ah |
3 | Cal | By | Do | Aum |
4 | Cat | Co | Ga | Coke |
5 | Ho | En | Go | Da |
6 | Lack | Ha | Han | En |
7 | Ma | Hat | Hon | Han |
8 | Max | Ken | Miss | Ing |
9 | Nan | Khan | No | Kin |
10 | Nes | La | Noy | La |
11 | Nu | Le | Ny | Na |
12 | Po | Ma | Pau | No |
13 | Pow | Mo | Poose | Nock |
14 | Sha | Om | Qua | Ny |
15 | Shen | Que | Sau | Pack |
16 | Shick | Shin | Taw | Peck |
17 | Sus | Ta | Ti | Pen |
18 | Tun | Ti | Wan | Qua |
19 | Wall | To | Wax | Ra |
20 | Wy | Wan | Wiss | Tan |
Examples
A: d6:1 = 1+2+3+4; d20:13= Pow; d20:13= Mo, d20:9=no; d20:2=Ah = Powmonoah
B: d6:6 = 2+3+4; d20:19 = To; d20:10 = Noy;d20:8=Ing = Tonoying
C: d6: 1 = 1+2+3+4; d20:4 = Cat; d20:8 = Ken; d20:2 = Dau; d20:20=Tan = Catkendautan
D: d6: 5 = 1+3+4; d20:19 = Wall; d20:9 = No; d20:1=A = Wallnoa
E: d6: 3 = 1+2+3; d20:15 = Shen; d20:5 = En; d20:12 = Ny = Sheneny
F: d6: 1 = 2+3+4; d20:13 = Mo; d20:14 = Qua; d20:4 = Coke; Moquacoke
All of these seem to be believable Native American locations/names. If any seem slightly off, it is easy to re-roll it or swap one syllable for another choice on the chart.
In all there are 184,00 combinations!
As a “native” of South-east PA, I approve.