came in here to mention Kuna (say it with me everyone kyou-nuh) but jeez after reading some of the names posted…
Yes, Scranton is one butt-ugly name, and a fairly large city. Prague has never bothered me, the P-R dipthong is kinda nice.
There’s quite a few in Massachusetts-
Belcherstown
Taunton (just sounds like a dirty inner city, doesn’t it?)
Cummington
Gosnold
Groton
Seekonk
Rehoboth
Zylonite
Zoan
Agreed. I would never want to admit I lived in Slough.
Fargo, ND.
Crackertown, FL
Lubbock, TX
Younkers, NY
You’ve reminded me of French Lick, Indiana.
No one said Yaphank, NY? Lovely little town but the name does leave a bit to be desired.
Yap-hank-said with a big fat twang on the end.
Especially when pronounced with that southern New England accent:
GRAAA’ - ng
I was also thinking of Scranton, which is near to where my grandparents lived. Driving there from Ohio, we’d see signs for Frackville, PA. Even worse.
Texas offers us Nacogdoches. Also, New Braunfels, which is actually a nice town. And, of course, it used to have Gladysville, until the town elders decided they needed something that sounded nicer and changed it to Beaumont. French for “beautiful mountain,” which is funny considering how Beaumont is pretty much the exact opposite of either beautiful or mountainous. Maybe the French phrase for “goat perineum” was already taken or something.
Yip Yip Yaphank!
Not too far from Mastic and Speonk…
Not quite up there in ugliness, but it’s pretty damned strange: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It’s the former town of Hot Springs, but they liked the NBC radio quiz show so much that they changed their name to it in 1950.
Actually, Ralph Edwards, the host of the show, announced he would air the program from the first town that renamed itself after the show. He visited the town during the first weekend of May for the next 50 years for what became the annual Fiesta.
It’s similar to Gratten in Michigan? It does grate on the ear. GrATten (like ‘rotten’ but with a big, flat AT in it).
Nobber sounds worse.
Assateague, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
New Braunfels? 
You find that to be an ugly name for a town? 
Now then, I will agree with you on the part about Beaumont, but there are some that are way uglier, than that! 
To name but a few (more)…
Nigton
Aiken
Hindes
DeWees
Runge
Cheapside
and if this doesn’t conjure up “ugly”, I don’t know what else would,
Hochheim!
Ugly?! :dubious:
Good Heavens, man! There’s nothing, ugly about Muff!
<dreamy look on my face> mmmmmm…[SIZE=“6”] Muff![/SIZE]
there’s a town in Luzon island, Philippines that, up to the 90s, was called sexmoan. it was filipinized after the Pinatubo eruption.
Those are weird in terms of content, rather than ugly-sounding, in my view. More to the point of the OP are towns like Slade, Inez, Owingsville, Hawesville, and Irvine. That’s Ur-vin. Paducah (also an Indian name) seems to alarm/amuse people, but I’m so used to it that it doesn’t sound particularly weird. Pah-DUKE-ah.
There’s a little bitty town called Gratz, which is fairly unlovely, too.
Tampa is a little close to tampon for my taste. There’s a nasty little town outside of it called Wiamauma (whyMAma)that’s just as unpleasant to visit as it is to say.
I was surprised to hear my boyfriend comment that Anaheim sounds utterly unappealing to him. I’d never thought of it before but now that he mentions it, it doesn’t sound very nice.
I agree with those that mentioned Oxnard and Yonkers but I think Prague sounds pretty for some reason.
I’m surprised that nobody’s mentioned Middlesex, which can be found in various East-Coast states. That name is just begging to be the butt of jokes. It’s like they asked a smart-assed 13-year-old boy to choose the city’s name.
Middlesex may be joke-prone but as a name, it’s not ugly.
I rather like the name LeSueur. To an English ear, it sounds nice. Right up until you realize that it translates as “the stink” or “the sewer”. It’s right up there with Slough.