There are the following specific types
| names of persons | |
| natural features | distinguishing the location of the place from its neighbours |
| adjectives | describing geographical position or generally perceived climatic differences relative to other nearby places |
| plant names | wild or domesticated |
| names of animals | wild or domesticated |
| man made features | usually generic such as street, bridge, church etc |
| names of groups of persons | communities living in particular geographic location, following a particular leader, having a more or less strict family relationships or sharing some characteristic which makes them distinguishable to the outsider |