Scottish Place Names Generator

After posting the other day about the Pseudo Elizabether Place Name Generator, I thought I’d put my rather limited Python skills to work and generate some Scottish place names.

A while back, I downloaded some data from the UK’s goverment website. It contained a list of all place names within Britain. I filtered out the English and Welsh names, then I created a list of common prefixes and suffixes from the Scottish names. I let Python’s Random function do its magic to combine these, and I created a spreadsheet from the results. 

There were a lot of unsuitable results, with names that felt unnatural or just awkward on the tongue. But even so, I was surprised and pleased at how many good names I got. Here’s a sample…

If you fancy some generated Scottish place names for your map or novel, you can copy them from this link: View Scottish Place Names (Google Sheets, opens in new tab)

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