# What are people from your city/town/area called? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883 "2005-09-03T10:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/1 "2005-09-03T10:48:31Z")
People from/in New York are New Yorkers. People living in San Diego are San Diegans. People in Seattle, I’ve heard, are called Seattelites. Here, in Phoenix, we’re Phoenians. …Or something to that nature. Not quite sure I spelled it right. Anyway, what are people who are from/living in your town or city or area called? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/2 "2005-09-03T10:52:02Z")
Sydney = Sydneysiders (in Sydney) Sydney = Arseholes (elsewhere in Australia 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/3 "2005-09-03T10:52:27Z")
Winthrop Harborians? ick. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/4 "2005-09-03T11:55:07Z")
Shanghaiese ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/5 "2005-09-03T13:29:04Z")
Rednecks. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/6 "2005-09-03T13:31:07Z")
Massholes. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/7 "2005-09-03T13:37:07Z")
Geordies ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/8 "2005-09-03T13:38:33Z")
Dunno. Stone Mountaineers? ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/9 "2005-09-03T13:45:19Z")
N’aveners or N’avenites ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/10 "2005-09-03T14:22:13Z")
Baltimoreons, but we call them Baltimorons. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/11 "2005-09-03T14:34:47Z")
In the Springs area of East Hampton, NY, the locals are called \*Bonackers \*(after the Indian word for the area, Accabonac), but they call themselves “Bubbies,” or “Bubs.” Yes, yes, Bub! ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/12 "2005-09-03T14:41:41Z")
Scrantonians in general, but sometimes more often referred to by what section of the city they live in. For example, I’m a South Sider. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/13 "2005-09-03T14:54:59Z")
“People who live in Brick, NJ”. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/14 "2005-09-03T15:02:26Z")
The Brickenese. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/15 "2005-09-03T15:03:03Z")
Bronxites, or, more typically, Kings (Queens) of the Universe. Add -ites to Brooklyn and Manhattan, too, and -ers for Staten Island in the unlikely event you run into one of its 20-odd inhabitants. Queens–I dunno. “Guys from Queens” sounds natural. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/16 "2005-09-03T15:06:43Z")
Austinites. Houstonians. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/17 "2005-09-03T15:26:49Z")
Schenctadians Also in the area: Albanians (Albany) Trojan (Troy) Saratogians (Saratoga) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/18 "2005-09-03T15:38:48Z")
Glasgow \>\>\> Glaswegian. No, it doesn’t make much sense to me either. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/19 "2005-09-03T15:47:24Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Glasgow \>\>\> Glaswegian. No, it doesn’t make much sense to me either. 😕 but it’s fun to say … i know a Glaswegian 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/20 "2005-09-03T15:54:44Z")
You mean you know me, or you mean you know a Glaswegian in the real world? Are people from the State of Confusion Confegians, I wonder? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883.md?page=2)