A few names this generator came up with. Tap one to copy it, or press "Generate Names" above for more.
Any
the Court of Starlit Mists
Ferncircle
Hawthornbarrow
Meadowsweetbower
Moonhill
Under the hill
Acornbarrow
Mistmound
Heatherhill
Toadstoolknowe
Snowdroptump
In the wood
Thimblehollow
Thistlebower
Cloverglen
Acornglen
Harebelldell
Fairy ring
Hawthornmote
Bryonygreen
Glowcircle
Mossmote
Harebellmote
A fairy court
the Court of Weeping Brambles
the Hidden Court beneath Elderknowe
the Frozen Court beneath Acornhill
the Court of Silent Pearls
the Court of Sleeping Masks
How the Fairy Town Name Generator Works
It works from 608 names and name parts, which combine into over 5,900 possible results.
The choices:
Kind of Place:
Any, e.g. Starlingdell
Under the hill, e.g. Moonmound
In the wood, e.g. Fernnook
Fairy ring, e.g. Primrosegreen
A fairy court, e.g. the Twilight Court beneath Mistbarrow
Each press gives you 8 names. "Show 8 more" adds 8 you haven't seen yet. Once you've seen them all, "Start again" shuffles the whole list again.
In folklore, fairies don't live in towns so much as in places: inside a green hill, in a ring of mushrooms, in the roots of a hawthorn nobody dares cut down. This fairy town name generator builds names for those places from the old words for them, and for the great courts of the fae.
Where fairies live
Under the hill. In Irish and Scottish folklore, the fairy folk live inside mounds and hills, the sídhe. Scots has a word for such a hill: a knowe. English has howe and barrow for old burial mounds, often said to be fairy homes.
Fairy rings. Circles of mushrooms in the grass were said to be where fairies danced. Step inside, and you might dance for a hundred years.
Fairy trees. Lone hawthorns in Ireland are still left uncut for fear of offending the fairies who live there.
Fairy forts. The ancient ringforts that dot the Irish countryside were long believed to belong to the fairies, and left alone.
Four kinds of place
Under the hill: names ending in -knowe, -howe, -barrow and -tump (a West Country word for a mound).
In the wood: -hollow, -dell, -shaw (a small wood) and -bower.
Fairy ring: -ring, -mote (a mound, or a meeting place), -green and -lea.
A fairy court: the grand halls of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, named like titles: the Court of Weeping Willows.
Visiting fairyland
Time runs differently. In the Irish tale of Oisín, a few years in Tír na nÓg, the Land of Youth, turn out to be three hundred in the mortal world.
Don't eat the food. Eat or drink in fairyland and you may never leave: a rule from ballads like Thomas the Rhymer to modern fantasy.
Every place needs its people. For the fairies who live there, try the Fairy Name Generator.
A knowe is a Scots word for a small hill or mound. Fairy knowes were hills believed to be fairy dwellings, and the word gives fairy places an old, northern sound.
+Can I use these names in D&D?
Yes, they're free to use and you don't need to credit the site. They suit villages and courts in D&D's Feywild as well as folklore-based stories.