San Francisco, California: naming agency services for small businesses

Since this website page is about San Francisco naming, it seems appropriate to talk about the naming of San Francisco, California itself.

Naming San Francisco wasn’t the result of a big-ticket name generation assignment awarded to one of the area’s fancy brand agencies. No, as with the tracing the history of most city names, knowing more about San Francisco naming starts with taking just a brief glimpse into the city’s past. While the settlement was originally called Yerba Buena (the Spanish name for many mint-related herbs), the city was named in 1776 after Saint Francis of Assisi. (Incidentally, while today’s locals typically reject the too-cool-for-school “Frisco,” nobody seems to mind simply referring to it as the city. “City by the Bay” provides an even more apt and concrete moniker, but that’s more of a term of affection than something you would actually call it.) If you’re naming San Francisco claims-to-fame, get a cosmopolitan and progressive mindset on the list, then add bridges, skyscrapers, delicious eats, rain/fog, crazy curvy Lombard Street and Tony Bennett, who apparently left his heart there.