Lord Of The Rings Memes

the vast majority of place names irl are just objective descriptors, optionally with that having been twisted through time.

Exeter means "castle on the river exe", starting as "esceancaster"; Aberdeen means "mouth of the river dee"; Amsterdam means "dam in the amstel"; Stockholm means roughly "log islet" as it started on the tiny central island which they put logs around.

And of course in germanic areas there's the very common "burg/borg", which just means that the place has a castle/fortification.