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Place Names Of The South

ScarlettRobin

By ScarlettRobin · Updated May 2023

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  • Baxley

    English

    "baker's meadow"

    A more unusual, if slightly snooty, masculine Bailey alternative.

  • Ellijay

  • Alpharetta

  • Daytona

  • Ocala

  • Tallahassee

  • Creola

    Creola is a feminine name with Southern American and French Creole origins. The name derives from 'Creole,' referring to people of mixed European and African ancestry in the Caribbean and Louisiana.…

  • Meraux

  • Shenandoah

  • Winchester

  • Florida

    Place name and Spanish from Latin

    "flowery"

    Lacks the cachet of some newer place-names.

  • Alabama

    Place-name; Choctaw

    "vegetation gatherers"

    Alabama is a hot southern place-name, picking up from Georgia and Savannah. This is not a geographical name come lately, though--there have been girls named Alabama dating back well over a century.…

  • Lexington

  • Kentucky

  • Trilby

    Place name, surname, and literary name

    Trilby was used first for a character by French novelist Charles Nodier (1822) and made more famous by writer George du Maurier in an 1894 work. A Trilby hat, which Du Maurier's character wore, is a…

  • Louisiana

    French place-name

    Louisiana is a geographic spin on the Louise theme. Pretty, if a bit of a syllable overload. Short form Lou or Lulu lightens it.