Place names · United States
America's saddest town names
US town names skew cheerful: 1,754 are happy or hopeful and 780 say Pleasant. Only 31 sound miserable, like Hurt, Virginia and Nowhere, Oklahoma.
What is said in this reel
America names its towns like it's selling a vacation. 1,754 have happy, hopeful names. 780 say pleasant. Only thirty-one sound miserable. Hurt Virginia. Why Arizona? Embarrass, Minnesota, Mary Hell, Mississippi, Nowhere, Oklahoma. And yes, there are three borings and three dulls.
Credits and sources
- Data: GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0
- Map shapes: Natural Earth (public domain)
- Narration: AI-generated voice.
