Research · October 2026
The Rude Atlas A true & faithful chart of the world’s rudest place names
The rudest place name on Earth is Cuntis, a spa town in Galicia, Spain. Britain’s rudest? Twatt. There are two of them.
The verdict
The rudest place names on Earth
We found 420 real places in 87 countries whose names make English speakers snigger. These ten scored highest on our Blush Rating.
The Blush Rating adds three scores: word strength (up to 5, using Ofcom’s October 2026 research into how offensive Britons find each word), clarity (up to 3, how unavoidable the rude reading is) and the snigger factor (up to 2). The full method.
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What the public says
What our Blush Rating says
- Cuntis10.0
- Twatt (2 places)9.0
- Cocklick Hill9.0
- Dickshooter9.0
- Cumbum (2 places)9.0
- Bell End9.0
- Wankers Corner9.0
- Tittybong9.0
- Shitterton9.0
- Wank9.0
The rudest maps
Britain has the rudest map in the English-speaking world
We scanned all 5.2 million towns, villages and hamlets in the GeoNames gazetteer for rude English words. Britain has 18.8 for every 10,000 settlements, 2.4 times the American rate.
18.8rude place names for every 10,000 settlements in the United Kingdom
That works out at 82 rude-looking places in the UK, from Cockfosters to Clitheroe. More than half of them contain the word cock, which in old place names usually meant a cockerel, a woodcock or a small hill. America’s tally is driven by knobs: 144 rude-looking places in all, most of them named after rounded hills in Appalachia.
England is the rudest corner of the UK by some distance, and West Virginia is the rudest US state. Further afield, plenty of countries look rude to English eyes by pure accident. Slovakia tops that table because horný simply means “upper”.
| Country | Per 10,000 | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom82 of 43,689 settlements | 18.8 | |
| Jamaica4 of 3,639 settlements | 11.0 | |
| United States144 of 183,980 settlements | 7.8 | |
| Australia15 of 19,205 settlements | 7.8 | |
| Canada12 of 21,760 settlements | 5.5 | |
| New Zealand1 of 3,037 settlements | 3.3 | |
| Ireland3 of 12,158 settlements | 2.5 |
| Country | Per 10,000 | |
|---|---|---|
| SlovakiaHorný just means upper, as in Horný Smokovec | 65.5 | |
| TaiwanShitou means stone, as in Shitoucuo, stone house | 29.8 | |
| Burkina Faso26 Pissi places, led by the town of Pissila | 25.0 | |
| AfghanistanBūm is a Persian word for land or region | 24.8 | |
| Guinea-BissauCuntim, Cuntima and Cunteda, near Senegal | 18.0 | |
| JapanShita means below, as in Shitamachi, low town | 17.5 | |
| MyanmarOkshit is the bael fruit tree; bum means mountain | 13.9 | |
| ChinaShitou means stone and Cuntou a village edge | 12.6 |
| Nation | Per 10,000 | |
|---|---|---|
| England75 of 32,553 settlements | 23.0 | |
| Wales4 of 3,796 settlements | 10.5 | |
| Scotland5 of 6,665 settlements | 7.5 | |
| Northern Ireland0 of 669 settlements | 0.0 |
| State | Per 10,000 | |
|---|---|---|
| West Virginia10 of 3,925 settlements | 25.5 | |
| Kentucky10 of 4,791 settlements | 20.9 | |
| Missouri8 of 4,202 settlements | 19.0 | |
| Arkansas6 of 3,703 settlements | 16.2 | |
| Pennsylvania17 of 10,735 settlements | 15.8 | |
| North Carolina11 of 6,954 settlements | 15.8 | |
| Kansas3 of 1,992 settlements | 15.1 | |
| Virginia11 of 8,731 settlements | 12.6 |
The complete gazetteer
All 420 places, ranked
Every place we found, checked against at least one official or encyclopaedic source. Tap a name to see it on the map.
| Nº | Place | Blush | Kind of rude |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. Origin unclear. In Roman times the spa settlement here was known as Aqua Calidae, 'hot waters'. | 10.0 | Nether regions |
| 2 | Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. From Old Norse þveit, meaning a small parcel of land. The same Norse word gives the common English place-name ending -thwaite. | 9.0 | Nether regions |
| 2 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. From Old Norse þveit, meaning a small parcel of land, the same root as the English place-name ending -thwaite. | 9.0 | Nether regions |
| 3 | North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 4 | Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. Named for Dick Shooter, a pioneer settler. The name is shared by a nearby ridge, reservoir and creek. | 9.0 | Members |
| 5 | Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India. Named after the town's Kambaraya Perumal temple. Legend says the deity's idol was found under a stone post, kambam in Tamil, so the god was called Kambaraya Perumal and the town Cumbum. Natively it is spelt Kambam. | 9.0 | Bodily functions |
| 5 | Markapuram district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Origin unclear. The town's native spelling is Kambham. | 9.0 | Bodily functions |
| 6 | Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Named after Belne, an old name in Belbroughton parish recorded as Beolne in 817 and Bellem in Domesday Book (1086). The meaning of Belne itself is unclear. | 9.0 | Members |
| 7 | Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Named after the Wanker family, German settlers who arrived in 1895 and built a store and tavern where Stafford and Borland roads meet. The family pronounce it 'Wonker'. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 8 | Victoria, Australia. Origin unclear. In his 2016 book Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Eamon Evans says it is unclear where the name Tittybong comes from. | 9.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 9 | Dorset, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Scatera in Domesday Book (1086), from Old English scite, dung. The stream through the hamlet was apparently called the Shitter, a brook used as a privy, so the name means roughly 'farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer'. | 9.0 | Profanities |
| 10 | Bavaria, Germany. The name comes from an old word for 'slope'. The mountain was formerly also called Eckenberg or Eggenberg. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 11 | Harney County, Oregon, United States. Named in Old West days, when enterprising women from Vale, Oregon, set up wood and canvas tents in the meadow to serve local sheepherders and cattlemen. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 12 | North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From the Franconian Wankheim, explained as 'home in the meadows and pastures'. It is first recorded as Wanchheim in a document of 28 August 1279. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 13 | Daviess County, Indiana, United States. Named for William Cumback, a US Representative from Indiana. | 9.0 | Bodily functions |
| 14 | Rideau Lakes, Ontario, Canada. Origin unclear. The name dates from the township's first survey, run by Lewis Grant in 1795. The sources checked do not say who or what it honours. | 9.0 | Profanities |
| 15 | Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Origin unclear. | 9.0 | Carnal matters |
| 16 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 9.0 | Profanities |
| 17 | Moselle, Grand Est, France. Named after its hilltop castle, recorded in 1172 as Bytis Castrum. The German form is Bitsch. The root's original meaning is unclear. | 9.0 | Profanities |
| 18 | Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. Local legend says wives complained their husbands took to the general store like a baby to a sugar tit, a twist of cloth filled with sugar or honey used as a pacifier. | 9.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 19 | Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 8.7 | Profanities |
| 20 | Upper Nile, South Sudan. Origin unclear. | 8.3 | Nether regions |
| 21 | St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. Takes its name from nearby Knob Lick Mountain. In the Ozarks a knob is an isolated summit and a lick is a salt lick or salt spring. | 8.3 | Members |
| 22 | Kittitas County, Washington, United States. Origin unclear. A Wenatchee man known as Whiskey Dick died in 1907, but no link to the mountain is proven. Local newspapers use the name from about 1909. | 8.3 | Members |
| 23 | Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. Origin unclear | 8.3 | Profanities |
| 24 | Västernorrland County, Sweden. Recorded since 1547. The meaning is not entirely clear. One suggestion is Old West Norse fokka, a wedge-shaped piece of land, though that does not explain the vowel. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 25 | Suceava County, Romania. From the Ukrainian word clitca, meaning a stack or pile, because fugitives from Galicia called their houses that. Its German name was Glitt. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 26 | Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Origin unknown. 'Dildoe' was recorded for offshore Dildo Island in 1711 and 1775, and the name then spread to Dildo Arm and the town. In old usage the word also meant a thole pin, the peg that holds an oar. | 8.0 | Carnal matters |
| 27 | Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. From a Gallo-Roman estate, *Pusiacum, named after a man called Pusius plus the suffix -acum. It was recorded as Pussiac in 1156 and Puisaco in 1170. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 28 | Victoria, Australia. Circumstantial evidence says a Melbourne Walking Club member named it on a 1934 hike. Other club members took up the name, it reached maps, and official acceptance followed. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 29 | Boone County, Kentucky, United States. Named for its location at the source of the Beaver Branch of Big Bone Creek. A 'lick' is a natural salt deposit that animals come to lick. It was spelled as two words, Beaver Lick, until about 1895. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 30 | South Darfur, Sudan. Origin unclear. Also spelled Um Dafouk, Um Dafok and Um Dafog. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 31 | Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States. Named for a lick that lay south of a knob, or rounded hill, north of the post office. | 8.0 | Members |
| 32 | Sonsonate Department, El Salvador. Origin unclear. GeoNames also records it as Cantón Anal. | 8.0 | Carnal matters |
| 33 | Fakfak Regency, West Papua, Indonesia. Origin unclear. The settlement's former name was Kapaur, which biologists still use. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 34 | Victoria, Australia. Origin unclear. | 8.0 | Members |
| 35 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. 'The mouth of the River Cocker', where the Cocker meets the Derwent. The river name comes from Brittonic kukra, 'the crooked one'. | 8.0 | Members |
| 36 | Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. Said to refer to 'prickets' of willow, long thin skewers used in thatching, which grew in the surrounding marshy fenland. | 8.0 | Members |
| 37 | Bay Islands Department, Honduras. Named after the English buccaneer Captain John Coxen (also spelled Coxon). The town was founded in 1835 by British families who moved to Roatán from the Cayman Islands. | 8.0 | Members |
| 38 | Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Origin unclear. | 8.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 39 | Powys, Wales, United Kingdom. Taken from the former Three Cocks Junction railway station, named after the 15th-century Three Cocks Inn. The inn took its name from the arms of the Williams family of Old Gwernyfed. The Welsh name, Aberllynfi, means mouth of the Llynfi. | 8.0 | Members |
| 40 | County Wexford, Ireland. First recorded in the 1530s. 'Bastard' was probably the nickname of a Norman-era landowner. The Irish form, Baile Bhastaird, is a direct translation of the English. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 41 | Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Origin unclear. 'Shag' is also a name for the cormorant, but the sources checked do not explain this name. | 8.0 | Carnal matters |
| 42 | Fremont and Teton counties, Idaho, United States. Said to be a corruption of the French word 'biche', meaning doe. French trappers called the waterway 'Anse de Biche'. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 43 | Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Origin unclear | 8.0 | Bodily functions |
| 44 | Del Norte County, California, United States. Named after a settlers' log house 'fort' built for defence against local Native Americans. | 8.0 | Members |
| 45 | Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands (Sint Eustatius). Origin unclear. 'Tumbledown Dick' was the mocking nickname of Richard Cromwell, who resigned as Lord Protector in 1659. | 8.0 | Members |
| 46 | Ariège, Occitanie, France. Ars or Arse comes from Hars, also spelled Hartz or Hers, an old word meaning mountain. | 8.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 47 | West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 8.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 48 | Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. Origin unclear. Laurance Rockefeller began buying land here in 1958 and opened his Little Dix Bay resort on the bay in 1964. | 8.0 | Members |
| 49 | Clay County, Indiana, United States. Named for Richard Mentor Johnson, ninth Vice President of the United States under Martin Van Buren. | 8.0 | Members |
| 50 | Powys, Wales, United Kingdom. Welsh, translated as 'point of the peak', perhaps for its pointed shape. Welsh f is said like v, so the Welsh pronunciation is roughly 'van uh beeg'. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 51 | Powys, Wales, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. Twmpa is the Welsh name and Lord Hereford's Knob the English one; the Ordnance Survey lists both. | 8.0 | Members |
| 52 | Warren County, Iowa, United States. Origin unclear | 8.0 | Bodily functions |
| 53 | Queensland, Australia. Named after George Lawson, a Yorkshire-born, Cairns-based beche-de-mer fisherman nicknamed 'Yorkey', who built a homestead nearby. 'Knob' means a rounded hill. | 8.0 | Members |
| 54 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 54 | Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. Origin unclear. | 8.0 | Nether regions |
| 55 | South Australia. Named for its nearness to large deposits of iron ore, especially the prominent Iron Monarch outcrop. | 8.0 | Members |
| 56 | Perugia, Umbria, Italy. Named after the Osteria del Bastardo, an old inn and post station on the Via Flaminia. The name was shortened to plain Bastardo in the 1920s. | 8.0 | Profanities |
| 57 | Puno Region and La Paz Department, Peru / Bolivia. Disputed. In Aymara, titi can mean puma or lead and kaka grey hair. Archaeologist Charles Stanish argues it is a corruption of thakhsi cala, the name of a sacred rock on the lake's Isla del Sol. | 8.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 58 | Central River Region, The Gambia. Origin unclear. | 7.7 | Nether regions |
| 59 | Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Origin unclear. | 7.7 | Nether regions |
| 60 | Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Named after the Beaver River area of western Pennsylvania. The river was named either for King Beaver (Tamaqua), a Delaware leader who arrived in the 1740s, or for the animal. Big Beaver Township was incorporated in 1802. | 7.7 | Nether regions |
| 61 | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. No consensus. The name comes from 1860s British Admiralty charts by Captain G.H. Richards. Theories include a local sea captain and Fanny Palmer, a Victoria girl who died in the 1875 wreck of the Pacific. | 7.7 | Nether regions |
| 62 | Uppsala County, Sweden. First recorded as Fiukaby in 1316. Fjuck is linked to the Old Swedish verb fjuka, to blow or drift, as snow does, and often marks windy places. The spelling changed from Fjukeby to Fjuckby in the 1930s. | 7.7 | Profanities |
| 63 | Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. The county took the name Fuqing in 933 AD, after earlier names including Wan'an and Futang. The characters mean fortune and clear. | 7.7 | Profanities |
| 64 | County Kildare, Ireland. Irish Cill Choca, 'church of Saint Coca', a 6th-century saint said to be a sister of Saint Kevin of Glendalough. | 7.7 | Members |
| 65 | Chiapas, Mexico. Origin unclear. | 7.7 | Bodily functions |
| 66 | South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Named by sealer James Sheffield, probably because shags (cormorants) and other seabirds frequent them. Argentina calls them the Islas Aurora. | 7.7 | Carnal matters |
| 67 | Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. Commonly said to honour Colonel William Cumming. Local historians have also proposed Rev. Frederick Cumming, a teacher of early resident Jacob Scudder, or Alexander Cuming, son of a Scottish baronet. | 7.7 | Bodily functions |
| 68 | Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Origin unclear. | 7.7 | Profanities |
| 69 | Kediri Regency, East Java, Indonesia. Origin unclear. In Indonesian the word semen simply means cement. | 7.7 | Bodily functions |
| 70 | Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Billesfelt in Domesday Book (1086). Probably 'open land belonging to a man called Bill', or open land on raised ground. Nothing to do with dogs. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 71 | County Mayo, Ireland. Irish An Com, meaning a hollow or coomb. John O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey notes gloss the name as 'a hollow'. | 7.3 | Bodily functions |
| 72 | Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. Named after Shitlington, 'farm of Scyttel or his sons', from an Old English personal name. It was spelt Sutlingtun around 1240. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 73 | County Durham, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Shuttilhopfeld in 1382. Probably a valley (hop) named for a fancied resemblance to a weaver's shuttle (Middle English shittle), though it may contain the personal name Scyttel. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 74 | Minsk Region, Belarus. Formed from the name of the River Sluch with the Slavic suffix -sk. Early chronicles call it Sluchesk. | 7.3 | Carnal matters |
| 75 | Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. The rocks are also known as Bitches and Whelps. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 76 | Phú Thọ Province, Vietnam. A Sino-Vietnamese name: phúc means blessing or good fortune, and yên means peace or calm. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 77 | Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. Mapped as 'Sandyballas' since the reign of Henry VII (1485 to 1509), describing the dome-shaped sand and gravel outcrops on the site's western edge. Some survive, including Good Friday Hill and Giant's Grave. | 7.3 | Members |
| 78 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. May be Old English cocc hop, 'blind valley frequented by wild birds', first naming the valley below and later the hill. A smaller Little Cockup sits on its shoulder. | 7.3 | Pure innuendo |
| 79 | Perth, Western Australia. Named after Cockburn Sound, which Captain James Stirling named in 1827 after Admiral Sir George Cockburn. | 7.3 | Members |
| 80 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Recorded since 1524 and thought to be either a family name or the name of a house on Enfield Chase. | 7.3 | Members |
| 81 | Johnson County, Missouri, United States. All authorities connect it with a prominent local knob, or hill. Surveyor David Wolfe Eaton read the half-Latin name as 'Our Knobs'. The origin of 'Noster' is uncertain. | 7.3 | Members |
| 82 | South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Meikle is a Scots form of muckle, meaning big. The meaning of Shag here is unclear. | 7.3 | Carnal matters |
| 83 | Bavaria, Germany. Origin unclear. It is first recorded as Titamanninga in the Notitia Arnonis, a Salzburg church property list from around 788 to 790. | 7.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 84 | Pamplemousses District, Mauritius. French: trou (hole, cove) and biches (does, female deer). The name appears on the Lislet-Geoffroy map of 1807. | 7.3 | Profanities |
| 85 | East Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Named after the Dicker, an area of former common land. Wikipedia's Arlington entry links the word to 'dicker', meaning barter, describing Upper Dicker as the site of a medieval trading centre. The origin is not certain. | 7.3 | Members |
| 86 | Morbi district, Gujarat, India. Gujarati for 'river bend', from wanka (bend) and ner (river), after the town's position on a bend of the Machhu River. | 7.3 | Carnal matters |
| 87 | Borno State, Nigeria. Origin unclear. | 7.3 | Carnal matters |
| 88 | Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. Named for the Horney family of early settlers. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 89 | Ysyk-Ata District, Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan. Kant is the Kyrgyz word for sugar; the town got its name when a sugar plant was built there in the 1930s. The idea that it honours Immanuel Kant is a myth. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 90 | Moscow, Russia. Lexicographer Vladimir Dahl linked it to kuntsa, a name for the tit (a songbird), as local peasants were bird-catchers. The district's coat of arms instead uses a marten, kunitsa in Russian. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 91 | Valais, Switzerland. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 92 | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. The Gaelic name is Drochaid a' Choilich, 'bridge of the cockerel'. Locals also called it Ceann Drochaid, meaning 'bridge-end'. | 7.0 | Members |
| 93 | Essex, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 94 | County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Irish Sliabh an Choiligh, 'mountain of the cock'. In Irish, coileach means a cock or another male bird, such as a blackcock or woodcock. | 7.0 | Members |
| 95 | North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 96 | South Australia. Named after Sir John Cockburn, Premier of South Australia in 1889 to 1890. | 7.0 | Members |
| 97 | Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Sources conflict: it honours either Francis Cockburn, an early 19th-century official, or his descendant Isaac Cockburn, the island's first major landowner. | 7.0 | Members |
| 98 | Western Australia. Named in 1827 by Captain James Stirling, probably after Admiral Sir George Cockburn. | 7.0 | Members |
| 99 | Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands. Named after Sir Francis Cockburn, a former Governor of the Bahamas. It is pronounced KOH-burn. | 7.0 | Members |
| 99 | San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Named after Sir Francis Cockburn, Royal Governor of the Bahamas from 1837 to 1844. | 7.0 | Members |
| 100 | Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 101 | Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Probably Old English for heaps or hillocks, a modern spelling of 'Coccs'. | 7.0 | Members |
| 102 | Wellington Region, New Zealand. Origin of 'Colonial Knob' unclear. Early Māori named the peak Rangituhi, meaning 'sky glow', for the hill's red glow at sunset. | 7.0 | Members |
| 103 | Graubünden, Switzerland. Origin unclear. It was officially Cumbels until 1983 and first appears around 840 in a royal estate register of Louis the Pious. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 104 | Brandenburg, Germany. Origin unclear. It is first recorded in 1246 as Kumelosen, then as Kummelose in 1334 and Cumenloze in 1341. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 105 | North Holland, Netherlands. First called Nieuwdorp. It was renamed after Nicolas Joseph de Cock, the Antwerp-born founder of the company that reclaimed the Eierland polder in 1835. | 7.0 | Members |
| 106 | Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka. Probably Sinhala: oya is a Sinhala word for river or stream. The full meaning of the name is not confirmed by a published source. | 7.0 | Members |
| 107 | Camden County, New Jersey, United States. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 108 | Northern Territory, Australia. Named by surveyor George Goyder after Fanny Carandini, an opera singer. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 109 | North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. An 1880s gazetteer describes Fannyside as both a shallow loch and the moor around it, Fannyside Muir, in Cumbernauld parish. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 110 | County Wexford, Ireland. Irish Baile Faine. Early records spell it Fayneston (1540-41) and Fanyston (1566). The Fannystown spelling appears on an 1813 estate map. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 111 | Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Written 深谷, from characters meaning deep and valley. The name was in use by 1456, when the Uesugi clan built Fukaya Castle; a fuller origin is unclear. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 112 | Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia. Origin unclear. Jazan was originally the name of a valley, mentioned once in an ancient Musnad inscription, and was later applied to the coastal city. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 113 | Jizzakh Region, Uzbekistan. Probably from Sogdian Dizak, a diminutive of diz (fortress), meaning 'small fortress'. The 10th-century geography Hudud al-Alam records it as Dizak. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 114 | Southland, New Zealand. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 115 | Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. First recorded in 1258 as Cocsk. It may come from a founder nicknamed Kot, or from kocanka, a plant (Helichrysum arenarium) that grows abundantly in the area. | 7.0 | Members |
| 116 | Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. From Nakoda, meaning 'water of the spirits'. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 117 | County Meath, Ireland. Irish An Obair, 'the work'. A 1965 study cited by the Placenames Database of Ireland suggests the 'work' was something built, most likely the Norman motte north-west of the village. | 7.0 | Members |
| 118 | County Durham, England, United Kingdom. Shares the name of neighbouring Beechburn, explained by Allen Mawer as 'Bicca's stream', an Old English man's name plus burna (stream). It was spelt Bycheburn in 1304. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 119 | Ida-Viru County, Estonia. Origin unclear. The place was first recorded in 1472 as Püssz. Its German name was Neu-Isenhof. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 120 | Otago, New Zealand. Named, like the nearby Shag River, after a seabird, the pied shag. Its Māori name is Matakaea. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 121 | Canterbury, New Zealand. 'Shag Rock' appears on HMS Pandora's December 1854 survey chart of the Sumner Bar. Waitaha tradition translates the Māori name Rapanui as 'the great sternpost'. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 122 | Dorset, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 123 | County Cavan, Ireland. From the Irish Searcóg. The Placenames Database of Ireland says the meaning is unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 124 | Kitashitara District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 125 | Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. Possibly 'ford by the muddy meadows', from dialect slag, a muddy or foul way. It was spelt Slagingford in 1257. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 126 | County Kerry, Ireland. Irish An Sponcán. John O'Donovan's 1841 Ordnance Survey notes explain it as a place abounding in coltsfoot, a herb called spunc in Irish. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 127 | Tamanrasset Province, Algeria. Origin unclear. In Kabyle Berber, tiṭ means 'eye' or 'opening', but no source ties that word to this village's name. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 128 | Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. Origin unclear. In Kabyle Berber, tiṭ means 'eye' or 'opening', but no source ties that word to this town's name. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 129 | Surrey, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. Domesday Book (1086) records the village as Ticesei. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 130 | Bavaria, Germany. Origin unclear. The -ing ending shows Bavarian settlers lived here before Eichstätt's monastery was founded in 740. A local noble, Hartwig von Titting, is recorded in the 12th century. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 131 | Bavaria, Germany. Origin unclear. The place is first documented as a noble seat in 1155 and received market rights in 1322. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 132 | Thane district, Maharashtra, India. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 133 | Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. From Wanikendhorpe, meaning 'village of Waniko'. It was first mentioned in 1316. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 134 | Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Originally known as Colbrand's Path, after a folkloric giant. | 7.0 | Members |
| 135 | Rural Municipality of Happy Valley No. 10, Saskatchewan, Canada. Origin unclear | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 136 | Torfaen, Wales, United Kingdom. Origin of the English name unclear. Its Welsh name is Coed-llwyd. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 137 | Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand. Origin unclear. Bang means a village on a stream; the name may come from Bang Ko (island) or Bang Makok, after an olive-like fruit tree. | 7.0 | Members |
| 138 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. Clough is a northern word for a steep-sided valley. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 139 | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 140 | Somme, Hauts-de-France. Recorded in Latin as Pisciacum in the mid-8th century, then Pyssi in 1301. Local history derives it from poisson, 'fish'. It was once also called Pissy-belle-mare. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 141 | Maryland and Delaware, United States. From an Algonquian name meaning 'midway fishing stream'. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 142 | Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. Named after John and George Ball, United Empire Loyalist brothers who bought 1,200 acres here in 1807 and built grist, saw and woollen mills on Twenty Mile Creek. | 7.0 | Members |
| 143 | New South Wales, Australia. Named after Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who commanded HMS Supply in the First Fleet. Its Aboriginal name is Yerroulbine. | 7.0 | Members |
| 144 | County Limerick, Ireland. The official Irish form is Eifinn, and the Placenames Database of Ireland says its meaning is unclear. Local tradition links the name to Saint Eimhín, pronounced EF-in. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 145 | County Donegal, Ireland. From the Irish Magh, meaning 'plain'. | 7.0 | Nether regions |
| 146 | Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. The Victoria County History calls it a hamlet on Little Lever's southern border. The three arms of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal meet at Nob End Locks. | 7.0 | Members |
| 147 | South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. May mean 'the farmstead at the hill called Penning', from Brittonic penn (head, end or height) plus Old English -ing and tun (farmstead). Domesday Book spells it Pengeston. | 7.0 | Members |
| 148 | County Louth, Ireland. Irish Tearmann Feichín, 'Féchín's church land', after Saint Féchín of Fore, said to have founded a monastery here in the 7th century. | 7.0 | Profanities |
| 149 | Yancey and Buncombe counties, North Carolina, United States. 'Butt' in these Appalachian mountain names is described as a corruption of 'butte', a word for a hill. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 150 | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 151 | Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. From Cornish. The first part, bronn, means breast or hill. Oliver Padel proposed Bronn Wennili, 'hill of swallows', while Henry Jenner suggested bronn ewhella, 'highest hill'. It was spelled Brunwenely around 1200. | 7.0 | Members |
| 152 | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Members |
| 153 | Region of Southern Denmark. First recorded as Maethaelfar in 1231. It combines Old Danish maethal, 'middle', and far, 'way'. The name first meant the narrowest stretch of the Little Belt strait, then the town beside it. | 7.0 | Bodily functions |
| 154 | Kane County, Utah, United States. Early Utah explorer John Kitchen is credited with naming at least some of these peaks after a nipple of his wife, Molly. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 155 | Semporna District, Sabah, Malaysia. Origin unclear. | 7.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 156 | Vas County, Hungary. Probably from the Slavic place name Pernovo, whose own origin is unknown. The suffix apáti refers to the village's former Cistercian abbey. | 7.0 | Carnal matters |
| 157 | Narsingdi and Narayanganj districts, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Origin unclear. In Bengali shital means cool, and local tradition links the name to the river's water staying cool in every season. | 6.7 | Profanities |
| 158 | Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Cokernho in 1221. The ending is Old English hoh, a spur of land, for the hill east of the farm. The English Place-Name Society calls the first part difficult, perhaps cocc, 'cock', plus aern, 'house'. | 6.7 | Members |
| 159 | County Wexford, Ireland. Irish Baile an Hóraigh. Baile means townland or homestead. Official sources give no meaning for the second element. | 6.7 | Carnal matters |
| 160 | Namur province, Wallonia, Belgium. Origin unclear. In Walloon and Champenois the village is called Pûsmadje. | 6.7 | Nether regions |
| 161 | Alvaiázere, Leiria District, Portugal. Origin unclear. | 6.7 | Nether regions |
| 162 | Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Disputed. First recorded as Titinsee in 1050. Theories include the Roman general Titus camping there, a woman called Tita owning land by it, and the Alemannic word teti, small child. | 6.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 163 | White County, Arkansas, United States. Named for a prominent, treeless ridge of layered rock that served as a landmark for pioneers. The town was founded in 1881. | 6.7 | Members |
| 164 | Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Named for John T. Bumpass, one of the area's first postmasters. | 6.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 165 | County Louth, Ireland. Uncertain. Local legend says an 18th-century landowner hacked to death thieves or rebels who disturbed his property. | 6.7 | Members |
| 166 | Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. From Latin paene insula, 'almost an island', translating its Greek name Chersonesos, 'peninsula'. The Spanish ñ arose from mixing in the word peña, 'rock'. | 6.7 | Members |
| 167 | Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Recorded as Asnux around 1600 and also as Aznu. Locals drop the s and say 'Anu'. Its deeper origin is unclear. | 6.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 168 | Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. From Old Sorbian psheno, meaning millet or wheat, which suggests the soil was especially fertile. It was first recorded in 1206. | 6.7 | Bodily functions |
| 169 | São Paulo, Brazil. Means 'land of Ana', for patron saint Sant'Ana (Saint Anne). First Cuscuzeiro, then Anápolis, it became Analândia in 1944 because another municipality was already called Anápolis. | 6.7 | Carnal matters |
| 170 | East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Possibly Old Norse vaett-vangr, 'field for the trial of a legal action'. Another theory makes it the 'wet field', in contrast to nearby Driffield. | 6.7 | Members |
| 171 | Province of Sulcis Iglesiente, Sardinia, Italy. Possibly from a local word, mungerru, for a place where livestock were milked, or of pre-Latin origin. It first appears in a 1206 document as scala de Buguerru. | 6.3 | Profanities |
| 172 | Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. Named for nearby Clitherall Lake, which was named after George B. Clitherall, a slaveowner and presidential appointee. | 6.3 | Nether regions |
| 173 | Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Believed to come from explorers stumbling on a Beothuk path by chance. | 6.3 | Bodily functions |
| 174 | New South Wales, Australia. Origin unclear. Greater Hume Council says it is believed to be Aboriginal and that 'burrum' usually refers to water. Local belief says it means 'bullock's backbone'. | 6.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 175 | Dorset, England, United Kingdom. Thought to refer to a rough hollow. 'Bottom' is an old word for a valley, and this is a dry chalk valley ending at the cliffs between Durdle Door and Bat's Head. | 6.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 176 | Gangtok district, Sikkim, India. The town shares its name with the Dikchu River, which joins the Teesta here. The origin of the river's name is unclear. | 6.3 | Members |
| 177 | Gotō, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Written 福江, from characters meaning good fortune and inlet. A fuller origin is unclear. | 6.3 | Profanities |
| 178 | Greene County, New York, United States. Said to come from a Native American term. Translations vary, and 'owl's hoot' is the one most common locally. | 6.3 | Members |
| 179 | East Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 6.3 | Carnal matters |
| 180 | (formerly Earl Town)Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. Named after an inn. In the early 1700s John Wallace hung a blue ball on a post outside his inn, 'The Sign of the Blue Ball'. Earl Town officially changed its name to Blue Ball in 1833. | 6.3 | Members |
| 181 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 182 | Western Region, Ghana. Local oral history says it was called Dick's Cove after Dick, a British trader based at the cove, later corrupted to Dixcove by European seafarers. Dutch writer Bosman (1705) recorded its earlier name, Efiema. | 6.0 | Members |
| 183 | Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States. Began in 1879 as a fur-trading post beside the Beaver River, under the name Beaver City. | 6.0 | Nether regions |
| 184 | West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Cochinges in Domesday Book (1086). The English Place-Name Society explains it as 'settlement of Cocca's people', from an Old English personal name Cocca plus the group suffix -ingas. | 6.0 | Members |
| 185 | Cox's Bazar District, Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. Named after Captain Hiram Cox, an East India Company officer who resettled Arakanese refugees and died in 1799. A market founded in his memory became Cox's Bazar. | 6.0 | Members |
| 186 | County Durham, England, United Kingdom. 'Cocc's hoh', the heel or spur of land belonging to a man called Cocc. It was spelt Cockishow in 1277. | 6.0 | Members |
| 187 | Queensland, Australia. Named after the iron steamer SS Dicky, which ran aground on the beach in heavy seas on 12 February 1893. | 6.0 | Members |
| 188 | Dikhil Region, Djibouti. Origin unclear. The village grew up around the well of Harrou and was founded by Afar and Issa people. | 6.0 | Members |
| 189 | İzmir Province, Turkey. Origin unclear. In Turkish dikili means upright or erected, as in dikili taş, a standing stone or obelisk. | 6.0 | Members |
| 190 | West Flanders, Belgium. Means 'dense scrub'. It is first recorded as Thiggebusch in 1072 and as Thicebus in 1093. | 6.0 | Members |
| 191 | Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Uncertain. Possibly Celtic dubh (dark) and cocr (winding stream). Folklore says a Scotsman had to doff his cockers, old Scots stockings, to cross the flooded stream. | 6.0 | Members |
| 192 | Halifax Regional Municipality and Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Origin unclear, but thought to be a corruption of a Mi'kmaq term, with earlier spellings such as Ekamsagen. The Mi'kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas gives Mekwe'saqnuk, 'at the red bank'. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 193 | Carinthia, Austria. Origin unclear. Its Slovene name is Bače. The lake, Faaker See, is named after the village. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 194 | Burgas Province, Bulgaria. Under Ottoman rule the village was known as Omur Fakih, or simply Faki. A fuller origin is not documented. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 195 | Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Fockebury around 1200 and Fukkebury in 1327. From Focca, a pet-form of an Old English name beginning Folc-, plus burh, a fortified place: 'Focca's burh'. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 196 | West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Fochinges in Domesday Book (1086). An Anglo-Saxon -ingas name meaning 'the people of Folc or Folca', a man otherwise unknown to history. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 197 | Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Arabic Khawr Fakkan, 'creek of the two jaws', describing its crescent-shaped bay flanked by two headlands. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 198 | KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Named after the Griqua leader Adam Kok III, who settled the area in 1863. Stad is Dutch and Afrikaans for 'city'. | 6.0 | Members |
| 199 | New South Wales, Australia. Origin unclear. Theories include Lieutenant Shortland calling the island a 'nob', a man called Joseph Nobby, and 'Nobby Clark', rhyming slang for a shark. Colonists first called it Coal Island. | 6.0 | Members |
| 200 | Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality, Solukhumbu District, Nepal. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 201 | Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines. Two local versions: from taytay, Subanen and Visayan for bridge, or from 'Titay', nickname of settler Custodio Mariano Sr's favourite cousin, Cristita Mariano. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 202 | Saginaw and Midland counties, Michigan, United States. Likely from Ojibwe Ditib-Waasizo, glossed as 'rolling and sparkling river', for its curving shape and shining water. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 203 | Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Titesovere in Domesday Book (1086). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names gives 'Titten's ridge', from a personal name derived from Titta plus Old English ofer, a slope or ridge. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 204 | Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. First recorded as Driritum in 1152 and Titeritun in 1189. The ending probably comes from the Celto-Roman -dunum, meaning an enclosed or fortified place. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 205 | Brevard County, Florida, United States. Named after Henry T. Titus, who arrived in 1867. The settlement was called Sand Point until it was renamed Titusville in 1873. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 206 | Friesland, Netherlands. First recorded in 1392 as Thiatzerckera. It probably means the church of Tiete, the church's owner or founder, from Old Frisian tzercka, church. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 207 | Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Recalls Wairaka, who saved the drifting Mātaatua canoe by paddling it, which women were not allowed to do, saying 'Kia whakatāne au i ahau', meaning 'I will act like a man'. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 208 | Otago, New Zealand. Named after the lake. Wānaka is the South Island dialect form of wānanga, meaning sacred knowledge or a place of learning. | 6.0 | Carnal matters |
| 209 | Oise, Hauts-de-France. Recorded as Harsi in 1186, Arsiacum in 1230 and Arcy in 1667. Its deeper origin is unclear. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 210 | Karnal district, Haryana, India. Identified with ancient Asandivat, a capital of the Kuru kingdom, the first recorded state in ancient India, around 1200 BCE. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 211 | Tyrol, Austria. A Germanised Old Slavic field name, asennik, meaning ash forest. First recorded as Aznich around 1030, it became Asnig and then Assling. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 212 | Hesse, Germany. First recorded in 1108 as Hasemanneshusen, in a charter about a vineyard. It was probably a Frankish foundation. The -hausen ending means houses. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 213 | Nordland, Norway. Said to come from the Old Norse male name Baldrekr. | 6.0 | Members |
| 214 | Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Members |
| 215 | Manche, Normandy, France. From Old Norse klif, 'rock or hillock', and thorp, 'farm or village', so 'village by the hillock'. It was recorded as Clitorp in 1164. | 6.0 | Nether regions |
| 216 | Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. Origin unclear. A post office called Muff operated from 1879 to 1908, and the place is also known as Snyderville. | 6.0 | Nether regions |
| 217 | North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Possibly from an older Celtic settlement called Muffo. It is first documented on 13 June 888 and appears as Moffendorf in a charter of 979. | 6.0 | Nether regions |
| 218 | Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom. Welsh: pen (end), isa' (lowest), 'r (the) and waun, a mutation of gwaun (moor or meadow), roughly 'the lower end of the moor'. | 6.0 | Members |
| 219 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Believed to come from Gamepenny Stone, a gambling game men played in its quarries, rather than from the town of Penistone. | 6.0 | Members |
| 220 | Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Pushulle in 1219. From Latin pisum, pea, and Old English for hill, meaning 'hill where peas grew'. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 221 | Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. From Old Prussian pisa or pissa, meaning a bottomless bog where only small birches and spruces grow. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 222 | Centre-Nord, Burkina Faso. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 223 | Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France. Recorded as Pixote Villa in 976. The name refers to a little stream with a tiny, trickling flow. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 224 | Limassol District, Cyprus. Probably from the large-scale extraction of pine resin, called pissa in Greek, from Byzantine times onward. Local legends link it to pitch-dark nights instead. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 225 | Uusimaa, Finland. Origin unclear. Older forms include Porneesi, and the Swedish name is Borgnäs. It split from Porvoo parish in 1869. | 6.0 | Carnal matters |
| 226 | Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. Disputed. Auguste Longnon proposed a Gallo-Roman estate of a man named Prunius. Albert Dauzat suggested Latin portus, 'port', plus a Breton personal name, Nitos. | 6.0 | Carnal matters |
| 227 | Butler and Warren counties, Ohio, United States. Named after the blue ball painted on its tavern's signboard, a picture sign for travellers who could not read. | 6.0 | Members |
| 228 | Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. Possibly 'hill of loose stones': Old Norse haugr (hill) plus a word like dialect clitter (loose stone debris), suiting the crumbling limestone crag under the castle. Ekwall says no definite etymology can be given. Spelt Cliderhou in 1102. | 6.0 | Nether regions |
| 229 | Phuket Province, Thailand. A corruption of Malay bukit, meaning hill, because the island looks like a hill from a distance. Its older name, Thalang, comes from Malay telong, meaning cape. | 6.0 | Profanities |
| 230 | Bonthe District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 230 | Qabala District, Azerbaijan. Linked to the Old Turkic word bum, meaning a river valley or hard-to-cross place. Bum sits in a hollow between two mountains where the Kovdan river meets the Bum river. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 231 | Warren County, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1839 by Michael Robert Buttz and named after the Buttz family. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 232 | West Falkland, Falkland Islands. Origin unclear. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 233 | Essex County, New York, United States. Locals named it after the nipple-like shape of its summit. Ebenezer Emmons, who made the first recorded ascent in 1837, called it 'Dial', but that name was later moved to a neighbouring peak. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 234 | Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Analipsi is the Greek word for the Ascension, as in the Ascension of Christ. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 235 | Boone County, Kentucky, United States. Named for the huge mammoth and mastodon bones found in the swamps around this salt lick, a set of salty mineral springs where animals came to lick the ground. | 6.0 | Carnal matters |
| 236 | Shasta County, California, United States. Named after Kendall Vanhook Bumpass, a cowboy and early settler who worked around Lassen Peak in the 1860s and discovered the area. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 237 | Greater London, England, United Kingdom. 'Bottom' means a valley or hollow. The Pratts were a family seated in the area, recorded there in the 14th century. | 6.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 238 | Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The name is probably of Germanic origin. Herpes was once a parish and then a commune in its own right, before it was absorbed into Courbillac in the 19th century. | 6.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 239 | Gers, Occitanie, France. From Gaulish Condatomagos, 'market of the confluence', because the town sits where the Gèle flows into the Baïse. It was first recorded in Latin in the 10th century as Condomus. | 6.0 | Carnal matters |
| 240 | Pike County, Ohio, United States. Named after the initials 'P. P.' carved on a creekside tree, traditionally by pioneer settler Major Paul Paine, though accounts differ on who carved them. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 241 | Pike County, Ohio, United States. Named after Pee Pee Creek, where pioneer Major Paul Paine carved his initials, P. P., on a tree. | 6.0 | Bodily functions |
| 242 | West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Formerly the River Cock. The name may refer to a mature salmon, as the beck was a spawning ground for salmon and trout. | 5.7 | Members |
| 243 | Trelawny and St Elizabeth parishes, Jamaica. Named for the large limestone craters or pits found across the area. Shallow caves there are also known locally as cockpits. | 5.7 | Members |
| 244 | New South Wales, Australia. Origin unclear. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 245 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Cumquintina in the 12th century, believed to be named after Saint Quentin. Cum- is the local Cumbric word for a valley, like Welsh cwm. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 246 | Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. Origin unclear. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 247 | Florence, Tuscany, Italy. From Latin ficus, 'fig', via *ficetulum, a place with many fig trees. It was recorded as Ficcicclo in 1027. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 248 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. The same name as Lacock in Wiltshire, from Old English for a stream or watercourse. The village stands on Laycock Beck. | 5.7 | Members |
| 249 | Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco. From Arabic al-Maḍīq, meaning 'the Strait'. It is also known by the Spanish name Rincón. | 5.7 | Members |
| 250 | Auckland, New Zealand. Māori, translated as 'hill reaching up to the sky'. Oral history credits Rakataura, a tohunga of the Tainui canoe, who named it after a hill in his Pacific homeland. | 5.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 251 | Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand. Whakapapa is a Māori word. The Māori Dictionary gives meanings including 'give history', as in genealogy, and 'to lie flat'. The Whakapapa River rises at the skifield above the village. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 252 | North Goa, Goa, India. Origin unclear. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 253 | Region of Southern Denmark. Recorded as Asnaes in King Valdemar's Census Book of 1231, meaning a headland overgrown with ash trees. | 5.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 254 | Baraga County, Michigan, United States. Shares its name with Ojibwe leader Chief Edward Assinins, who invited Bishop Frederic Baraga there and was the first person baptised at the site. Its Ojibwe name is given as Asiniinsikaajiigibiig. | 5.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 255 | Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States. Named in 1854 for the Coutre family, headed by Frenchman Portell Coutre of New Madrid. The family name was pronounced 'Coo-Tra'. | 5.7 | Nether regions |
| 256 | New South Wales, Australia. George and William Colless bought a sheep station here in 1862 and named it Come by Chance, reflecting their surprise at being able to buy land in the area. The town took the station's name. | 5.7 | Carnal matters |
| 257 | West Java, Indonesia. Either Sundanese suka (like) and bumen (to settle), a place people like to settle, or Sanskrit suka (happiness) and bhumi (earth), 'beloved land'. | 5.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 258 | Southern Alps, West Coast / Canterbury border, New Zealand. Origin unclear. The name was approved in 1934 for 'twin peaks at source of Ramsay Glacier north-west of Whitcombes Pass'. | 5.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 259 | Yucatán, Mexico. From Yucatec Maya pop, meaning a woven mat or petate, and possibly the reed used to weave it. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 260 | Lewis County, Idaho, United States. Named after Josiah Slickpoo, who gave land for Jesuit priest Joseph Cataldo's new church. The place was also known as Aishnima. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 261 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Cum- is the Cumbric equivalent of Welsh cwm, a valley. The meaning of the second part is unclear. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 262 | Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka. Commonly said to mean 'long beach' in Sinhala: dik- comes from diga, long, and wella means sand or beach. No formal place-name study confirms this. | 5.7 | Members |
| 263 | Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. From Old English prica, 'prickle or thorn', plus shaw, a small wood. It was recorded as Prikkeschagh in 1292. | 5.7 | Members |
| 264 | Effingham County, Illinois, United States. May honour Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, who resigned his British army commission in 1775 rather than fight the colonists. Newer research points to a surveyor named Effingham; there is no written proof either way. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 265 | Fakaofo atoll, Tokelau, Tokelau (New Zealand). Origin unclear. The whale ship General Jackson named it DeWolf Island in 1835, after the ship's owner. It was later called Bowditch Island, after navigator Nathaniel Bowditch. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 266 | Devon, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. The English Place-Name Society's earliest record is 'Crap Stone' in a deed of 1678, and it offers no derivation. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 267 | Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania. Origin unclear. The village's Hungarian name is Ispánmező. | 5.7 | Bodily functions |
| 268 | Réunion, Réunion (France). Most often traced to Malagasy tampony or tampona, glossed as 'belvedere' or lookout point. | 5.7 | Pure innuendo |
| 269 | Trøndelag, Norway. From Old Norse hellir, meaning a cliff cave or a shelter under an overhanging rock. | 5.7 | Profanities |
| 270 | Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. Named after New Erection Presbyterian Church, so called because an older church, known as 'Old Erection', stood at nearby Dayton. | 5.7 | Carnal matters |
| 271 | Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. Villagers adopted Analomink around 1906, choosing a name long associated with the region. Its original meaning is unclear. | 5.3 | Pure innuendo |
| 272 | Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Origin unclear | 5.3 | Nether regions |
| 273 | Dorset, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. The site is a stream valley, and 'bottom' is an old word for a valley. | 5.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 274 | Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. From a local Native American language, said to mean 'hard to pole', after the difficulty of poling canoes on the Humptulips River. Other sources say it means 'chilly region'. | 5.3 | Carnal matters |
| 275 | East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. Cockenzie comes from Gaelic Cùil Choinnich, 'cove of Kenneth'. In Scots it is Cockennie. | 5.3 | Members |
| 276 | Cumilla District, Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. Said to derive from Komolangko, an ancient name for the region meaning 'lotus pond'. | 5.3 | Bodily functions |
| 277 | Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Named after the Cockey family, prominent local landowners. Joshua Frederick Cockey opened a hotel and tavern on the York Road turnpike in 1810, and the village grew around it. | 5.3 | Members |
| 278 | Sucre State, Venezuela. Origin unclear. The city took the name Cumaná when it was refounded in 1569; the area's Indigenous people included the Cumanagoto. | 5.3 | Bodily functions |
| 279 | Basra Governorate, Iraq. Arabic for 'river of the Arabs'. In Iran it is called Arvand Rud, 'valiant river'. | 5.3 | Profanities |
| 280 | Dublin, Ireland. From Ball's Bridge, built and owned by the Ball merchant family in the 1500s and 1600s. The Irish name, Droichead na Dothra, means 'Dodder bridge'. | 5.3 | Members |
| 281 | County Offaly, Ireland. The English name comes from the Blue Ball pub in Pallas townland. The village was historically called Pallas, Irish An Phailís. | 5.3 | Members |
| 282 | Bumthang District, Bhutan. Means 'beautiful field': thang is a flat place, and bum is said to come from bumpa, a holy-water vessel, or from bum, 'girl', making it the valley of beautiful girls. | 5.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 283 | Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. Named in 1801 for its distance of six miles from Newmarket and its position in a bottom, an archaic word for a valley. | 5.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 284 | Wakatobi Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Origin unclear. | 5.3 | Members |
| 285 | Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Origin unclear. | 5.3 | Pure innuendo |
| 286 | West Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. From its jagged black limestone formations. Local versions say a visitor exclaimed, 'This is what Hell must look like.' | 5.3 | Profanities |
| 287 | Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 5.3 | Bodily functions |
| 288 | Livingston County, Michigan, United States. One of four theories: asked what to call the settlement, George Reeves reportedly said 'You can name it Hell for all I care.' The name became official on 13 October 1841. | 5.3 | Profanities |
| 289 | Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. It was recorded as Le Cockett in 1583, and its Welsh form is Y Cocyd. | 5.0 | Members |
| 290 | Stann Creek District, Belize. Named after the Cockscomb Mountains ridge, whose profile resembles a rooster's comb. | 5.0 | Members |
| 291 | Varese, Lombardy, Italy. Cocquio comes from vulgar Latin coccum, 'small hill'. Trevisago may come from Latin tres vias, 'three roads', or the Latin personal name Trebicius. | 5.0 | Members |
| 292 | Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France. From Gascon còth, 'hill', plural còths, from Latin collis. Its Occitan name is Còths. | 5.0 | Members |
| 293 | Fergana Region, Uzbekistan. The ending -kand means city in Sogdian and other Iranian languages; the first part may mean 'good', giving 'good city'. A Turkic origin from the Kokan tribal group is also proposed. | 5.0 | Members |
| 294 | Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. Kazakh for 'smoky-blue mountain', from kokshe (bluish) and tau (mountain), after nearby Mount Kokshe, which always looks hazy blue. | 5.0 | Members |
| 295 | Crimea, Ukraine. From Crimean Tatar Köktöbel, 'land of the blue hills', from kök, 'sky blue', and töbe, 'hill'. | 5.0 | Members |
| 296 | North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 297 | Balangir district, Odisha, India. Origin unclear. Also spelt Titilagarh. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 298 | Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. A Sioux name meaning 'big black', referring to the buffalo. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 299 | Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. Thought to derive from Old English for 'Tyttel's nook'. Domesday Book recorded it as Titeshala. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 300 | Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. One theory traces it to the Turkic word art, 'rear' or 'back', as its fort guarded the rear of the Kazan Khanate. Another links the Tatar name, Archa, to the Udmurt people. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 301 | North Denmark Region. Named after the three mills that stood among the dunes (klitter) by the North Sea around 1600. | 5.0 | Nether regions |
| 302 | West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Members |
| 303 | Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. Recorded as Fulcwardby in 1164 to 1177. It means 'Folcward's farmstead', a personal name plus the Scandinavian -by. The English Place-Name Society thinks the name is probably of post-Conquest origin. | 5.0 | Profanities |
| 304 | Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. Nether, or Lower, Assendon is recorded in 1409, distinguishing it from Upper Assendon, the old name for Stonor. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 305 | Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. First recorded in 1330 as Bonrade. A man named Bonclath, mentioned in 1239, may have founded the village or given it its name. | 5.0 | Members |
| 306 | Queensland, Australia. Captain Cook and other European explorers called it Booby Island for its booby seabirds. Its traditional owners, the Kaurareg people, call it Ngiangu after a giant forced from a neighbouring island. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 307 | Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 308 | Tasmania, Australia. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 309 | Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Probably 'broad valley floor'. Bottom in northern place names usually comes from Old English botm, a valley bottom, and the village sits in the valley of the River Etherow. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 310 | Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. La is Tibetan for mountain pass. The meaning of 'Bum' here is unclear. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 311 | Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sources do not explain the English 'Butt'. The Gaelic name, Rubha Robhanais, comes from Norse Rófunes, meaning 'promontory of the tail'. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 312 | Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Crapaud is the French word for toad. The sources checked do not record how the name came to be applied. | 5.0 | Profanities |
| 313 | Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Said to come from 'crapaud', the French word for toad. | 5.0 | Profanities |
| 314 | Lyon Metropolis, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Probably from Old French crappe, meaning a quagmire or muddy bog. | 5.0 | Profanities |
| 315 | Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. Named for its appearance: early settlers thought its V-shaped peaks looked like the fork, or 'crotch', of a tree. | 5.0 | Nether regions |
| 316 | São Paulo, Brazil. Portuguese for 'abundance'. The most accepted explanation is the region's fertile purple soil and the abundance of fish in the local stream. | 5.0 | Bodily functions |
| 317 | South Australia. Anthropologist Norman Tindale linked the name to the Kaurna word parnpangka, meaning 'rain water lake'. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 318 | Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Carnal matters |
| 319 | Gelderland, Netherlands. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Carnal matters |
| 320 | Cluj County, Romania. Via Hungarian Torda, probably from Old Bulgarian *tvьrdъ, meaning citadel or fortress. The Romans knew the site as Potaissa. | 5.0 | Bodily functions |
| 321 | Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 5.0 | Bodily functions |
| 322 | County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Irish Sraith na Gallbhuaile. Sraith means a river-meadow or valley-bottom, and buaile a summer milking-place or fold. | 5.0 | Members |
| 323 | Bell County, Texas, United States. Named after a sign that painter C.C. Hoover made for a country store run by Zulis and Bert Bell. It showed two bells bearing their names and the words 'Ding Dong'. | 5.0 | Members |
| 324 | Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Thought to derive from Mayanno, a Native American chieftain. The neighbourhood was formerly known as Mayamus and Upper Landing. | 5.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 325 | Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Named after the Piddle Brook, which joins the River Avon here. A Worcestershire place-name writer suggests 'piddle' was an Old English word for a small stream, and that 'Wyre' may be the brook's older Celtic name. | 5.0 | Bodily functions |
| 326 | Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. In 1834 Daniel B. Eldred, son of Judge Caleb Eldred, climbed a tree, saw the prairie and declared: 'This caps the climax of everything we saw.' | 5.0 | Carnal matters |
| 327 | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. Called Cross Keys after a local tavern until 1814. Theories include the meeting of two old roads, the old sense of 'intercourse' as fellowship, and a nearby racecourse called 'Entercourse'. The true origin is unproven. | 5.0 | Carnal matters |
| 328 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Old English neotherra (lower) plus thwang (narrow strip of land), the lower of a pair with Upperthong. | 5.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 329 | Haute-Marne, Grand Est, France. From the Germanic personal name Saxo plus Latin fons, 'spring', so roughly 'Saxo's spring'. It was recorded as Saxonis Fontane around 1034. | 5.0 | Carnal matters |
| 330 | New South Wales, Australia. Named after Royal Navy Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, who reported finding it in 1788 on the same voyage on which he discovered Lord Howe Island. | 4.7 | Members |
| 331 | The Narrows, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Origin not recorded. It is a major seabird nesting site, and its brown pelicans are colloquially called 'boobies'. | 4.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 332 | New South Wales, Australia. From the Worimi word butibuti, meaning 'plenty of honey'. | 4.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 333 | North Brabant, Netherlands. Early settlers lived on donken, raised sandy ridges, beside a stream called the Aa. Donkaa gave rise to Dongen for the town and Donge for the brook. | 4.7 | Members |
| 334 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. First recorded in 1538. From Old Norse lumm and butte, a pool by an abutment of land; butte may also mean a log or stump. | 4.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 335 | Mokhotlong District, Lesotho. Origin unclear. | 4.7 | Bodily functions |
| 336 | Poinsett County, Arkansas, United States. Named after a St. Louis railroad official when the railroad built a depot here in 1881. The stop had earlier been known as West Prairie. | 4.7 | Members |
| 337 | Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Either 'ram's valley', from Old English ramm (ram) and botm (valley), or 'wild garlic valley', from hramsa. It was recorded as Ramesbothum in 1324. | 4.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 338 | Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Thought to be a derivative of 'burgh'. The exact origin is unclear. | 4.7 | Bodily functions |
| 339 | Vaud, Switzerland. Sex is a Franco-Provençal place-name word for an isolated rock or cliff, so the name means 'red rock'. It is pronounced 'say rouge' and also spelled Scex Rouge. | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 340 | Orange County, Indiana, United States. The town began as a French trading post built near a spring and a salt lick, where animals came to lick mineral deposits. | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 341 | Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Named from nearby Lickey, recorded from 1225 as La Lecheye and Lekeheye. The name is thought to come from words for a clearing and an enclosed space, perhaps a clearing in the forest. | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 342 | Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. First recorded in 997 as 'Castellum qui vocatur Arsule'. Its origin is debated, with suggestions including Latin arx, 'stronghold', or words for a crag or cliff. | 4.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 343 | Drenthe, Netherlands. Origin unclear. The town grew around the Mariënkamp convent, which moved there from Coevorden in 1259. | 4.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 344 | Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Origin unclear. Alternative names include Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i and Farea, and Bellingshausen called it Wittgenstein Island in 1820. | 4.3 | Profanities |
| 345 | Queensland, Australia. From the Yuggera words kutchi, meaning red, and mudlo, meaning stone. Europeans called it Innis Island from 1825 to 1850. | 4.3 | Nether regions |
| 346 | Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Founded in 1680 by Colonel Semen Samoilovych of the Starodub Cossack Regiment and named after his first name, Semen. | 4.3 | Bodily functions |
| 347 | Saba, Caribbean Netherlands (Saba). From old Dutch De Botte, 'the bowl', for its valley ringed by mountains. 'The Bottom' is an English corruption. | 4.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 348 | Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Origin unclear | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 349 | Devon, England, United Kingdom. Possibly Brythonic: Pen y cwm coet, 'head of a wooded valley', or Pen y cwm gwyk, referring to a nearby creek. Locals have long linked it to The Penny pub by the roundabout. | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 350 | Peace River Country, Alberta, Canada. First called Bennville, but that name was already taken, so it was renamed after a local trapper named Sexsmith who came to the area in 1898. | 4.3 | Carnal matters |
| 351 | Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. From the Ainu language. Proposed origins include at-sam, 'beside the elm bark', and hatcham-betsu, a river named after a bird. | 4.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 352 | North Goa, Goa, India. Origin unclear. | 4.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 353 | Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. Local legend links the name to a naval battle in 1666. | 4.0 | Profanities |
| 354 | Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom. From Gaelic Am Ban Àth, 'fair ford'. Maps recorded it as Bana, Bona, then Bonar Ferry in the 1700s. Locals usually just say Bonar. | 4.0 | Members |
| 355 | Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand. Origin unclear. | 4.0 | Members |
| 356 | West Coast, New Zealand. Named by James Cook in 1770 after his ship Endeavour was blown a long way offshore from this point. | 4.0 | Bodily functions |
| 357 | Essex, England, United Kingdom. Means 'hill-spur of the Fingringas', a tribal name meaning 'the people who dwell on the finger of land'. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 358 | Goochland County, Virginia, United States. Named after its county, which honours Sir William Gooch, royal lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. The community is also called Goochland Court House. | 4.0 | Nether regions |
| 359 | Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Combines -trup, from Old Danish thorp, 'village', with a personal name, Hune or Humpi. It was first mentioned in 1462. The Danish name is Humtrup. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 360 | Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. | 4.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 361 | Imo State, Nigeria. Origin unclear. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 362 | New South Wales, Australia. Governor Philip Gidley King named it after a Norfolk Island hill that was hard to dig because of tree roots. The name first appears on a map from 1803. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 363 | Clay County, West Virginia, United States. Origin unclear. 'Booger' was local usage for the bogeyman. One story says a stonemason fleeing the valley's violence explained he was 'leaving Booger Hole'. | 4.0 | Bodily functions |
| 364 | Polk County, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1896 and named after Climax, a brand of chewing tobacco seen in an advertisement. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 364 | Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada. Named after Climax, Minnesota, the home town of early homesteader Christ Fuglestad. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 364 | Decatur County, Georgia, United States. Named because it sits at the highest point of the railroad between Savannah and the Chattahoochee River. It was platted in 1833. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 364 | Guilford and Randolph counties, North Carolina, United States. Named for its location at a high point on the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway, near the northernmost point of Randolph County. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 365 | Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. Origin unclear. A post office called Erect opened in 1883 and closed in 1935. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 366 | Sumter County, Alabama, United States. Named for the crossroads where the community sits. At the time a road intersection could be called an 'intercourse'. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 367 | Western Australia. Named for 'intercourse' in its old sense of communication and dealings, between explorer Philip Parker King's party and the Aboriginal people they met during his 1818 survey. King's 1827 book calls the group The Intercourse Islands. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 368 | County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. From Irish Lóiste Beag, meaning 'little lodge'. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 369 | Dorset, England, United Kingdom. From its position on the River Piddle plus 'trent hide', because Domesday Book assessed it at thirty hides of land. Domesday recorded it as Pidrie. | 4.0 | Bodily functions |
| 370 | Victoria, Australia. William Bunce's 1859 word list records Poowong as an Aboriginal word meaning carrion. | 4.0 | Bodily functions |
| 371 | Shkodër County, Albania. May derive from Latin via publica, 'public road', as the town lay on an old trade route. | 4.0 | Bodily functions |
| 372 | Friesland, Netherlands. Named after Saint Sixtus, patron of its church, plus Old Frisian bere, meaning barn or house. The oldest certain record is Sixtisberen, from the 13th century. The Frisian name is Seisbierrum. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 373 | Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est, France. From a Latin personal name, Cercius or Circius, plus the suffix -acum. It was recorded as Cirseium in 965. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 374 | North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Old Norse sexhou or sekkshaughr, 'the hill of Sekk', a personal name plus haugr (hill). | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 375 | Bullock County, Alabama, United States. One account says local men spent all day socializing at the blacksmith shop and went home with soot-covered faces. | 4.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 376 | West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Old English uferra (upper) plus thwang (narrow strip of land), the higher of a pair with Netherthong. | 4.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 377 | Texas County, Oklahoma, United States. Honours John 'Hooker' Threlkeld, a foreman on the OX Ranch, according to regional historian Henry Chrisman. | 4.0 | Carnal matters |
| 378 | Perry County, Arkansas, United States. Disputed. One story says idle rivermen at the tavern would 'suck on the bottle till they swell up like toads'. Another says it is a corruption of a French phrase for a narrow river channel. | 4.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 379 | Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone. Origin unclear. | 4.0 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 380 | County Kerry, Ireland. Irish Dá Chích Anann, 'the breasts of Anu', an ancient mother goddess. | 3.7 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 381 | Adams County, Ohio, United States. Named after the local Seaman family. The village was laid out in 1888 when the railroad was extended to the spot. | 3.7 | Bodily functions |
| 382 | Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Named for the spot where US Route 45 splits into 45W towards Humboldt and 45E towards Milan, creating a three-way junction. | 3.7 | Carnal matters |
| 383 | Queensland, Australia. Origin unclear. The headland was first marked on an 1840s survey map by James Charles Burnett, and its Aboriginal name is Ningeryoun. | 3.7 | Members |
| 384 | Bavaria, Germany. First recorded as Pettinga in 1048. Historical sources say the name describes a place subject to the ebb and flow of water. It sits on the shore of the Waginger See. | 3.7 | Carnal matters |
| 385 | New South Wales, Australia. From the Kamilaroi language, meaning 'fire for roasting'. | 3.7 | Bodily functions |
| 386 | Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. Uncertain. Possibly 'hill-spur of the dwellers among the ferns', or 'ferny-place hill spur'. | 3.7 | Bodily functions |
| 387 | New South Wales, Australia. Gazetted in 1863 as Pooncaira, described as an Aboriginal word meaning 'large sandhill'. The spelling later changed to Pooncarie for no recorded reason. | 3.3 | Nether regions |
| 388 | Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. From the Wampanoag word 'Tataket', roughly meaning 'at the principal tidal stream'. | 3.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 389 | Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. Thought to derive from Old English weoh, 'temple or holy place', suggesting a pagan shrine once stood here. | 3.3 | Members |
| 390 | Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom. Named for their breast-like conical shapes. Pap is an ancient word of Old Norse origin for the breast. | 3.3 | Bosoms & bottoms |
| 391 | Baden-Württemberg, Germany. First recorded in 861 or 862 as Secchosouua, roughly 'meadow of Seccho'. Nobody knows who Seccho was or when he lived. | 3.3 | Carnal matters |
| 392 | Västra Götaland County, Sweden. Probably means 'six hauls'. It first named a spot on the river Ätran with six places for net fishing. It was written Sexdraeghum in 1314. | 3.3 | Carnal matters |
| 393 | North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Kirkby means a settlement by a church. Overblow is a corruption of Oreblow, recalling the village's iron-smelting past. | 3.3 | Carnal matters |
| 394 | North Carolina and South Carolina, United States. Named after the Pee Dee people, the Native American tribe whose historic territory the river flows through. | 3.3 | Bodily functions |
| 395 | Kwango Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Origin unclear. | 3.3 | Bodily functions |
| 396 | Essex, England, United Kingdom. 'Shellow' is from Old English for a bend in the river, here the River Roding. 'Bowells' comes from the Bueles family, who held the manor in the 13th century. Domesday Book lists it as Scelda. | 3.3 | Bodily functions |
| 397 | Kent, England, United Kingdom. First recorded as Thuange in the Registrum Roffense of about 1200. It may correspond to Middle Low German dwenge, 'trap', but this cannot be confirmed. | 3.3 | Pure innuendo |
| 398 | Western Australia. Origin unclear. It is often said to be an anglicised form of Thung-arra, a local Wattandee name for the estuary, but this is unsourced. | 3.0 | Members |
| 399 | Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia. Named after its river, which once teemed with carp. In the local Kajkavian dialect a carp is called krap. | 3.0 | Profanities |
| 400 | Greene County, North Carolina, United States. Origin unclear. Before the American Revolution the settlement was known as Caswell's Landing, after Benjamin Caswell, brother of Governor Richard Caswell. | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 401 | Bavaria, Germany. From the Old High German male name Kiso or Cisso plus the suffix -ing. It is first securely recorded in 935 as Chissingun. | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 402 | Krabi Province, Thailand. From Malay: the original name was Pulau Api-Api, after the api-api, or grey mangrove, trees found on the islands. | 3.0 | Bodily functions |
| 403 | Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India. Origin unclear. It is also known as Spuwa. | 3.0 | Bodily functions |
| 404 | Henrico County, Virginia, United States. Local legend says it was named after a short-handled water pump under a tavern porch, where stagecoach horses drank. The origin is debated. The name was official by 1853. | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 405 | Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. Named after the Spread Eagle Chain of Lakes, which from the air resembles an eagle with its wings spread. | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 405 | Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Origin unclear | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 406 | Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. First recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as Stiucai. It means 'stump island', an island with stumps of trees. Locals say 'Stiff-key'; 'Stew-key' arose from misreading the Domesday spelling. | 3.0 | Carnal matters |
| 407 | Chester County, Tennessee, United States. Disputed. Residents say settlers found the creek water 'sweet to the lips'. Other theories name Sweet Lips, a gun used to kill Loyalist leader Patrick Ferguson in 1780, or George Washington's dog. | 3.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 408 | Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. In the 1870s a general store and a blacksmith's shop were built on opposite edges of the road. They stood so close that wagons had to slow down for the 'tight squeeze'. | 3.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 409 | Northland, New Zealand. Origin unclear. | 3.0 | Bodily functions |
| 410 | Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom. Origin unclear. An 1860s Ordnance Survey map spells it as two words, Wide Open, with East Wideopen and West Wideopen nearby. | 3.0 | Pure innuendo |
| 411 | Northern Cape, South Africa. Disputed. Most say it is a Korana word for 'poor pasture'; another version is 'place of the raging cow'. The ford was recorded as T'Kakamas from 1779. | 2.3 | Bodily functions |
| – | (formerly Fucking)Upper Austria. Recorded from 1070 and probably derived from Adalpert von Vucckingen, an 11th-century local. Legend credits a 6th-century Bavarian noble called Focko. The -ing suffix is a common Bavarian place-name ending. Older maps spell it Fuking. | renamed | Profanities |
| – | (formerly Wankie)Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. Named after the local chieftain Whange, now styled Chief Hwange. The colonial spelling Wankie was used until the town was renamed Hwange in 1982. | renamed | Carnal matters |
| – | (formerly Poo)Llanes, Asturias, Spain. Origin unclear. | renamed | Bodily functions |
| – | (formerly Sexmoan)Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines. From the old Kapampangan root sasmo, 'to meet', so Sasmuan means meeting place. Spanish friars wrote it Sexmoán, when Spanish x was pronounced like English sh. | renamed | Carnal matters |
How we did it
The method
We set out to find every real place on Earth whose name makes English speakers snigger. Researchers combed published lists, local news, national gazetteers and GeoNames, the open database of 13 million place names. Each place was checked against at least one official or encyclopaedic source for its location, its real origin and one true fact. Streets, pubs and businesses don’t count. Neither do slurs. That left 420 places in 87 countries, plus 4 that have since changed their names, which we show on the map as retired from rudeness.
Every place then got a Blush Rating out of 10, and the public can now vote on the ranking too.
The Blush Rating in full
Word strength (up to 5). How rude is the word the name evokes? For words in Ofcom’s October 2026 research into offensive language (an Ipsos UK survey of 4,289 UK adults), we used Ofcom’s own ratings: 5 for the words still not fully acceptable on TV even after the 9pm watershed, 4 for words that are unacceptable before 9pm but fine after it, 3 for words that are only moderately acceptable before 9pm, and 2 for words that are fine before 9pm. Words Ofcom didn’t test, like willy or bum, were placed on the same scale, up to a maximum of 3.
Clarity (up to 3). How unavoidable is the rude reading? 3 if you can’t read it any other way (Twatt, Shitterton), 2 if the rude reading leaps out but there’s a normal one too (Cockermouth, Fanny Bay), 1 if most people would see the innocent meaning first or it only works said aloud (Beaver, Phuket).
Snigger factor (up to 2). A comedy bonus for a double meaning that lands, or a name famous for its rude reading, such as a stolen road sign.
Each place was scored independently three times and each part is the average of the three. Where the total is level, word strength decides, then clarity.
The rudest countries
We took all 5,172,792 current populated places in GeoNames (towns, villages, hamlets and neighbourhoods) and searched their names for a list of rude English words, including Ofcom’s. Every one of the 2,474 matches was then reviewed twice, and a third time where the reviews disagreed, to remove false alarms like Arsenal or Dickson. Matches were split into names that are English in origin and names that only look rude to English eyes by accident. Rates are per 10,000 places listed in GeoNames, for countries with at least 3,000 places. GeoNames coverage varies by country, so treat small differences with caution.
The public vote
“Which is ruder?” shows two places at a time. Each vote counts as one win for the place you pick. The public ranking shows each place’s share of duels won, once it has been in at least three. Votes are real and the count started from zero on launch day. Each device is limited to a few hundred votes an hour.
Sources
Ofcom and Ipsos UK, Public attitudes towards potentially offensive language on TV, radio and video-on-demand, October 2026. GeoNames, downloaded 27 October 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines from Natural Earth via world-atlas. Each place in the gazetteer links to its own sources.
For journalists
Press & data
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