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I'm pretty terrible coming up with names. The names that I do come up with an end up sticking with are either extremely blunt descriptions turned into proper names, or are references that like too much to abandon.
Isn't that typically how it is in our own world too? Areas were usually named how the people saw it or someone or something important to them. This is "Tower Hill" because some blokes built a tower on the hill. This is London, because some REAL blokes named it after a river a long time ago. This is New York, because York was already taken.
Sure but I do it with everything, not just places. Titles, equipment, events.
Sometimes it makes sense, but I do it to a fault since I am so terrible with names. It creates hard to remember names or I find myself repeating the same names for different things. Which is also perhaps realistic, but not very engaging.
Another option is to just throw random words through translators.