names

One thing I can't help but find odd is that there are a lot of Christians named Jesus (or some variant of it), but hardly any Muslims named Muhammad. Is there a reason for that?

With a POD after 1800 but before 1915. Mexico is defeated by the French in 1860 or conquered by Britain or another non-Hispanic European country sometime after 1800. Should people with Spanish surnames modify it to be French/English/etc.? A hypothetical example, that Miguel Alemán will be...

Yes, I know. Technocracy is fascism for nerds. However, I'm working on a psuedo-timeline where Technocrats somehow seize power in at least one country, and I need advice on how to make techocratic sounding names. Here's an example of what I mean by (ideology)-sounding names, for those of you...

Assume that by some miracle someone can unify most of Western Europe and do as well as the Roman’s or Charlemagne what are some names for this that are Europa or Roma?

Few individuals, often rulers, had been powerful, influential, or alternatively, unlucky enough to have entire wars named after them. Some examples are the Napoleonic Wars, as well as the Hannibalic War (an alternate name for the Second Punic War) and the more unfortunately named War of...

In a timeline/map I'm making, New England will secede from the USA after a particularly rough War of 1812 and I wanted to give it a more unique name than 'The Commonwealth of New England' or the 'Federal States of America' or something else like that, so I gathered a few names that I...

Whether it is in a timeline where Zheng He's Treasure Fleet went all the way to South Africa or just China became resurgent under Sun Yat Tsen, please list down Chinese version of various places around the world. It is better that these name are not based on translation of "modern"...

How could the name of the country we call the United States of America, through some alternate path of history, change to something that includes a recent foreign loanword? By this I mean a word like Soviet, Junta, Bourgeois, Proletariat, Raj, Zollverein, etc. Any sort of loanword from another...

This thread is for posting any alternate names for any area of the world that you can think of. Make sure to include the place it is renaming and maybe a short description of the place or the name. Here are mine: 1. Meridia - A beautiful Latin sounding name for the American South (would...