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.