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!

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