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Greater San Francisco movement of 1912

In 1912, there was a movement to create a Greater San Francisco in which southern Marin County, the part of Alameda County which includes Oakland, Piedmont and Berkeley, and northern San Mateo County from San Bruno northwards would have become outer Boroughs of San Francisco, with the City and County of San Francisco functioning as Manhattan, based on the New York City model. East Bay opposition defeated the San Francisco expansion plan in the California legislature, and later attempts at San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan area consolidation in 1917, 1923, and 1928 also failed to be implemented.
In the historical example the annexed counties would have become a part of the city of San Francisco acting like New York City's outer boroughs, New York however has the advantage of the central borough, Manhattan, having a distinct name and identity to the city as a whole. The proposal went down like the Hindenburg, but supposing for a moment that they somehow managed to work things out and that as part of the negotiating it was agreed that the new city would receive a new name. Can anyone think of a decent alternative instead of Greater San Francisco?
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