Whats in a name?!

Your place sounds delightful!

Naming a place is a process that cannot be rushed. It took me a good six months or more of almost daily deliberations to come up with a name for my little woodland cabin. At first I'd thought I would call it Dreamer's Eyrie or Little Eyrie, but that doesn't roll off the tongue and folks around here don't know what an eyrie is anyway. I searched the internet for place names and made up dozens of lists.

In the end, my solution was to make three columns on a page. The last column is all possible synonyms for the building or location (nouns)--hill, keep, mountain, wood, cabin, cottage, nest, garden, glen, farm, ranch, ridge, nook, orchard, valley, post, etc. The middle column is a list of things or ideas that are significant to you about the place (these, too, are nouns)--creek, oaks, hope, faith, hounds, wind, patience, holly, ivy, bells, violets, gables, dreams, cedar, goats, horses, unicorns, shadows, sun, rest, echoes, etc. The first column is descriptive words (usually adjectives) that apply to your place or anything about your place--blue, green, red, grey, light, dancing, peaceful, lonely, windy, cold, warm, hot, breezy, shady, sleeping, resting, first, last, only, bright, fair, sunny, etc.

Now mix and match words from the columns--you can use all three, or just two of them. Examples from the words above: Windy Blue Hill, Green Ivy Grove, Sleeping Unicorn, Sunny Echoes, Bright Shadows Farm, Red Gable Ranch. You get the idea.

My place is named Nimblecat Cottage.

To get you started, here are some farm names I gleaned from the internet:
Wilson’s Farm
Back Home Acres
Backalley’s
Bama Blues
Baphomet
Bar-Jon Dairy
Benton
Big Shoal Creek
Big T Ranch
BillyGoat Bluff
Black Mesa Ranch
Blackfoot Sables
Blue Moon Acres
Blue Oak Ranch
Blue Unicorn
Branch Creek Farms
Breezy Timber
Brigadoon Barn
Bright and Beautiful
Brookshire Farm
Buckys Comfort
Burning Daylight Ranch
Buttin’ Heads
Twin Ridge
Brass Ring Farm
Evans Farm
Fieldview Farm
Knispel Farm
Leon’s Sod Farm
Oak Grove Plantation
Peaceful Valley Orchards
Peterson Farm
Rinehart Farm
Smoke Hollow Farm
Snyder Research Farm
Summerfield Farm
Sycamore Farm
Evergreen Stock Farm
Sunny Side Farm
Maple Avenue Farm
Fairview Farm
Elk Grove Farm
Walnut Glen Farm
Sunny Slope
Cedar Crest
Oak Glen
Edgewood Farm
River View Farm
Riverside Stock Farm
Plain View
Oak Park
East View Farm
Bonnie View
Upland Farm
Maple Hill
The Maples
Silver Hill
Elder Lawn
The Glenn
The Orchards
41 Highland Farm
Western View Farm
Glen Dale
Grand View
Aberdeen Plainview
Ash Grove
Basswood Farm
Box Elder Farm
Burr Oak Farm

Cedar Grove
Cedar Heights
Cedar Hill
Cedar Lawn Stock
Cedar Ridge Farm
Cedar Side
Cottonwood
Durham Stock
Elm Grove
Everflowing Spring Farm
Evergreen Farm
Fairview Farm
Glen Nook
Glendale
Good Soil Farm
Green Lawn
Hickory Grove
Hickory Ridge
Hidden View Farm
Highland Farm
Hillside Farm
Lane View
Larchdale
Live Fair View
Log Cabin Farm
Lone Pine Farm
Maple Knoll
Pine Grove
Pine Hill
Riverside Farm
Six Mile Grove
Suncrest
Sunkist
Sunny Brook Farm
Timberside
Abbey Field
Abbey Wood
Bache Mill
Bachelor’s Bump
Back o’ the Brook
Back Rogerton
Backbarrow
Banners Gate
Bickershaw
Five Oaks
Childer Stone
Cheddar Bush
Coventry Grange
Home Green
Knobbs Corner
The Keep
Northbrook
Stone Yards
Stony Fields
Valleyside
Allandale
Arkholme
Blackwood
Brakendale
Brentwood
Braeside
Casa Chica
Craigilea Farm
Crow’s Nest

Oh, be careful there - lest area perverts begin to refer to it as "Knob Gobble" (a rather unsophisticated reference to an oral sex act, if you get my drift).

donsgal

What a great fun one this was.....
" I saw something nasty in the woodshed"
Yeah baby but did it see you?

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I was tentatively useing Blue River Ranch. BUT I hate Ranch. There is now passion in the word, for me. And I dont know of any blue rivers anymore. I have thought of Blue Unicorn something. Like Keep of the Blue Unicrn. The word Blue is A keeper. We have a line of Blue Bassets and Blue Italian Mastifs. I am also looking into Blue Main Coons, Blue Holland Lops, and Blue Roan Brabants. Yes I LOVE BLUE. There is something about the color that when you look at it you are drawn in, moved, it is mystical. Impossible to discribe. Unicorns are much the same. Also love dragons. We are Christians so there is a need to be carefull about the wrong words. As in the Gobblin thing. I did enjoy some of the suggestions. Thank You all so much.

Mrs C.

Blaecroft = blue farm in Scottish

Firethorn did say<<"I was tentatively useing Blue River Ranch. BUT I hate Ranch. There is now passion in the word, for me. And I dont know of any blue rivers anymore. I have thought of Blue Unicorn something. Like Keep of the Blue Unicrn. The word Blue is A keeper. We have a line of Blue Bassets and Blue Italian Mastifs. I am also looking into Blue Main Coons, Blue Holland Lops, and Blue Roan Brabants. Yes I LOVE BLUE. There is something about the color that when you look at it you are drawn in, moved, it is mystical. ">>

Well you could End it with "Stead". That's different.

Blue Bassets Stead
Blue River Stead
Blue Hills Stead
Blue Highland stead

All have kind of a ring to them.........just a Thought.

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Blue Dragon Farm, Blue Dragon Keep?

Our farm is "Titan's Run Farm" Titan was my beloved german shepherd dog who passed on right before we moved here, and there is a little drainage creek we call the run, so it fit necely. Ti would have loved it here, I still can't look at a GSD without getting emotional.

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"Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway" John Wayne

Don't know enough about your future place to offer suggestions, but I'll tell you how we came up with our name- Bear Creek Farm & Apiary. I wanted two words, did not want to include our name, had to include something for the bees, and I also wanted it to refer to some geological feature nearby. Oh, and it had to be short enough to fit on the label of our honey jars, and be something that hopefully people can remember. We wound up looking at maps of the area and discovered a Bear Creek not too far away. There was also another creek which was closer to our place than Bear CReek, but it is called something like Little Duck Wing River- too long and didn't have as nice a ring to it as Bear Creek.

Ironically, we are moving to a new place that has a creek on the property- Partridge Creek. That would have made a nice name too, but it is a little too long, and we just registered with the state as Bear Creek Farm and on some websites so we are going to keep the old name after we move.

I'd consider going with some feature particular to the area.

Oooh, I like this one! Sounds very Mel Gibsonish in that movie. hey! wasn't he BLUE in it???

I wanted to name my little house 'Harmony Homestead'. But I thought it sounded kind of corny. I still think it in my head. It's only a quarter acre so I can't really think of it as a 'homestead'. But it is pretty harmonious...

Beaux

Hi Firethorne Here one for ya. How does "Blue Mountain Lodge" sound. I quite like ""The Blue Chicken Koop""

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Heard of the King Ranch in TX? Well we called our 6 acres the King Farmette (family name)

gee Ross..... ) <blush>

My farm's name,, is "Autumn House Farm" just because Autumn was my favorite season in New england. We call our new House, Highland Cottage, because we live in the Highland Hills.

Bergere is one of my middle names, it means "Shepherdess" in French. Mom's side of family is Acadian French.

So you can glen names from many different things or places. Normally with me, sooner or later a name pops into my head for what ever I am trying to name.

Good luck and have fun finding the right name!

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Shari

Hi Firethrone ,,

Here's one for ya, "Blue Mountain Lodge"...... I like "Blue Chicken Koop"......

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I've been trying to get my wife to go along with "Norfolk'n Way" as the name of our place. I've had absolutely no success though........

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I want to call our place "Hardwood" because of all the Oaks and Hickories we have but my wife won't let me. I came up with it because everything using the words "Oak" or "Hickory" sounded like the names of subdivisions.

You guys are terrible. TERRIBLE!!!