Which town in Massachusetts has the longest name? And you probably already know what #1 is
Massachusetts is known for a lot of things: sports, Dunkin, leafs, weather, great music, and towns with weird names. I decided to do something totally arbitrary and weird and decided…
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ShutterstockMassachusetts is known for a lot of things: sports, Dunkin, leafs, weather, great music, and towns with weird names.
I decided to do something totally arbitrary and weird and decided to rank every town in Massachusetts by the length of their town name.
There is one clear winner, and it's an incredibly unique name that makes me, a guy from the midwest, feel very insecure.
Here are all the names of all the towns ranked by the number of letters. See where your town is! (easy way to do that is just hit cntrl-f and type in your town name).
The shortest?
Lee. That doesn't even qualify for a prefix for most towns in our state, but it is unique that it is the only town with only 3 letters in its name.
Towns with less than 10 characters
Congrats on almost being notable, but not quite. This is like being the Brian Hoyer of towns.
| Avon | 4 |
| Ayer | 4 |
| Dana | 4 |
| Gill | 4 |
| Hull | 4 |
| LYNN | 4 |
| Otis | 4 |
| Peru | 4 |
| Rowe | 4 |
| Stow | 4 |
| Ware | 4 |
| Acton | 5 |
| Adams | 5 |
| Ashby | 5 |
| Athol | 5 |
| Barre | 5 |
| Dover | 5 |
| Essex | 5 |
| Heath | 5 |
| Lenox | 5 |
| Savoy | 5 |
| Truro | 5 |
| Upton | 5 |
| Wales | 5 |
| AGAWAM | 6 |
| Alford | 6 |
| Auburn | 6 |
| Becket | 6 |
| Berlin | 6 |
| Bolton | 6 |
| Bourne | 6 |
| Canton | 6 |
| Carver | 6 |
| Conway | 6 |
| Dalton | 6 |
| Dennis | 6 |
| Dracut | 6 |
| Dudley | 6 |
| Easton | 6 |
| Erving | 6 |
| Goshen | 6 |
| Granby | 6 |
| Groton | 6 |
| Hadley | 6 |
| Hanson | 6 |
| Hawley | 6 |
| Holden | 6 |
| Hudson | 6 |
| Leyden | 6 |
| Ludlow | 6 |
| MALDEN | 6 |
| Marion | 6 |
| Medway | 6 |
| Mendon | 6 |
| Millis | 6 |
| Milton | 6 |
| Monroe | 6 |
| Monson | 6 |
| Nahant | 6 |
| Natick | 6 |
| NEWTON | 6 |
| Norton | 6 |
| Oakham | 6 |
| Orange | 6 |
| Oxford | 6 |
| PALMER | 6 |
| Paxton | 6 |
| Pelham | 6 |
| QUINCY | 6 |
| REVERE | 6 |
| Rowley | 6 |
| SALEM* | 6 |
| Saugus | 6 |
| Sharon | 6 |
| Sutton | 6 |
| Warren | 6 |
| Wenham | 6 |
| Weston | 6 |
| WOBURN | 6 |
| AMHERST | 7 |
| Andover | 7 |
| Ashland | 7 |
| Bedford | 7 |
| Belmont | 7 |
| Berkley | 7 |
| BEVERLY | 7 |
| BOSTON* | 7 |
| Boxford | 7 |
| Chatham | 7 |
| CHELSEA | 7 |
| Chester | 7 |
| Clinton | 7 |
| Colrain | 7 |
| Concord | 7 |
| Danvers | 7 |
| Dedham* | 7 |
| Dighton | 7 |
| Douglas | 7 |
| Duxbury | 7 |
| Eastham | 7 |
| Enfield | 7 |
| EVERETT | 7 |
| Florida | 7 |
| GARDNER | 7 |
| Gosnold | 7 |
| Grafton | 7 |
| Halifax | 7 |
| Hampden | 7 |
| Hancock | 7 |
| Hanover | 7 |
| Harvard | 7 |
| Harwich | 7 |
| Hingham | 7 |
| Holland | 7 |
| HOLYOKE | 7 |
| Ipswich | 7 |
| Lincoln | 7 |
| LOWELL* | 7 |
| Mashpee | 7 |
| Maynard | 7 |
| MEDFORD | 7 |
| MELROSE | 7 |
| METHUEN | 7 |
| Milford | 7 |
| Needham | 7 |
| Newbury | 7 |
| Norfolk | 7 |
| Norwell | 7 |
| Norwood | 7 |
| Orleans | 7 |
| PEABODY | 7 |
| Raynham | 7 |
| Reading | 7 |
| Roxbury | 7 |
| Russell | 7 |
| Rutland | 7 |
| Seekonk | 7 |
| Shirley | 7 |
| Spencer | 7 |
| Sudbury | 7 |
| Swansea | 7 |
| Tisbury | 7 |
| Tolland | 7 |
| Walpole | 7 |
| WALTHAM | 7 |
| Wareham | 7 |
| Warwick | 7 |
| Wayland | 7 |
| Webster | 7 |
| Wendell | 7 |
| Whately | 7 |
| Whitman | 7 |
| Windsor | 7 |
| Abington | 8 |
| Acushnet | 8 |
| AMESBURY | 8 |
| Aquinnah | 8 |
| Ashfield | 8 |
| Boylston | 8 |
| Brewster | 8 |
| Brighton | 8 |
| Buckland | 8 |
| Carlisle | 8 |
| Charlton | 8 |
| Cheshire | 8 |
| CHICOPEE | 8 |
| Chilmark | 8 |
| Cohasset | 8 |
| Egremont | 8 |
| Falmouth | 8 |
| FRANKLIN | 8 |
| Freetown | 8 |
| Hamilton | 8 |
| Hardwick | 8 |
| Hatfield | 8 |
| Hinsdale | 8 |
| Holbrook | 8 |
| Hopedale | 8 |
| Kingston | 8 |
| Leverett | 8 |
| Medfield | 8 |
| Merrimac | 8 |
| Millbury | 8 |
| Montague | 8 |
| Monterey | 8 |
| Pembroke | 8 |
| Plympton | 8 |
| Prescott | 8 |
| RANDOLPH | 8 |
| Rehoboth | 8 |
| Richmond | 8 |
| Rockland | 8 |
| Rockport | 8 |
| Sandwich | 8 |
| Scituate | 8 |
| Sherborn | 8 |
| Somerset | 8 |
| Sterling | 8 |
| Stoneham | 8 |
| TAUNTON* | 8 |
| Townsend | 8 |
| Uxbridge | 8 |
| Westford | 8 |
| Westport | 8 |
| Westwood | 8 |
| WEYMOUTH | 8 |
| WINTHROP | 8 |
| Wrentham | 8 |
| Yarmouth | 8 |
| Arlington | 9 |
| ATTLEBORO | 9 |
| Billerica | 9 |
| Blandford | 9 |
| BRAINTREE | 9 |
| Brimfield | 9 |
| BROCKTON* | 9 |
| Brookline | 9 |
| Dartmouth | 9 |
| Deerfield | 9 |
| Dunstable | 9 |
| Fairhaven | 9 |
| Granville | 9 |
| Greenwich | 9 |
| Groveland | 9 |
| HAVERHILL | 9 |
| Holliston | 9 |
| Hopkinton | 9 |
| Hyde Park | 9 |
| Lakeville | 9 |
| Lancaster | 9 |
| LAWRENCE* | 9 |
| Leicester | 9 |
| Lexington | 9 |
| Littleton | 9 |
| Lunenburg | 9 |
| Lynnfield | 9 |
| Mansfield | 9 |
| Middleton | 9 |
| Millville | 9 |
| New Salem | 9 |
| Pepperell | 9 |
| Petersham | 9 |
| Plymouth* | 9 |
| Princeton | 9 |
| Rochester | 9 |
| Royalston | 9 |
| Salisbury | 9 |
| Sheffield | 9 |
| Shelburne | 9 |
| Southwick | 9 |
| Stoughton | 9 |
| Templeton | 9 |
| Tewksbury | 9 |
| Topsfield | 9 |
| Tyringham | 9 |
| Wakefield | 9 |
| WATERTOWN | 9 |
| Wellesley | 9 |
| Wellfleet | 9 |
| WESTFIELD | 9 |
| Wilbraham | 9 |
Towns with exactly 10 letters
Now we're talking! A town with more letters than the post office at the north pole on December 13th!
| Ashburnham | 10 |
| Bellingham | 10 |
| Blackstone | 10 |
| Boxborough | 10 |
| Brookfield | 10 |
| Burlington | 10 |
| CAMBRIDGE* | 10 |
| Charlemont | 10 |
| Chelmsford | 10 |
| Clarksburg | 10 |
| Cummington | 10 |
| Dorchester | 10 |
| Edgartown* | 10 |
| FITCHBURG* | 10 |
| Foxborough | 10 |
| FRAMINGHAM | 10 |
| Georgetown | 10 |
| GLOUCESTER | 10 |
| Huntington | 10 |
| LEOMINSTER | 10 |
| Longmeadow | 10 |
| Marblehead | 10 |
| Marshfield | 10 |
| Montgomery | 10 |
| Nantucket* | 10 |
| Northfield | 10 |
| Oak Bluffs | 10 |
| Plainfield | 10 |
| Plainville | 10 |
| Shrewsbury | 10 |
| Shutesbury | 10 |
| SOMERVILLE | 10 |
| Sturbridge | 10 |
| Sunderland | 10 |
| Swampscott | 10 |
| Washington | 10 |
| Wilmington | 10 |
| Winchendon | 10 |
| Winchester | 10 |
| WORCESTER* | 10 |
Towns with 11 letters
Getting closer but still nowhere near the top!
| BARNSTABLE* | 11 |
| Belchertown | 11 |
| Bernardston | 11 |
| BRIDGEWATER | 11 |
| CHARLESTOWN | 11 |
| EASTHAMPTON | 11 |
| FALL RIVER* | 11 |
| GREENFIELD* | 11 |
| Hubbardston | 11 |
| MARLBOROUGH | 11 |
| Middlefield | 11 |
| New Ashford | 11 |
| NORTH ADAMS | 11 |
| Northbridge | 11 |
| Phillipston | 11 |
| PITTSFIELD* | 11 |
| Sandisfield | 11 |
| Southampton | 11 |
| SOUTHBRIDGE | 11 |
| Stockbridge | 11 |
| Westborough | 11 |
| Westhampton | 11 |
| Westminster | 11 |
| Worthington | 11 |
Towns with 12 letters!
Believe it or not we're only a little over half way there at this point. EXCITING RIGHT?!
| Chesterfield | 12 |
| Lanesborough | 12 |
| Mattapoisett | 12 |
| NEW BEDFORD* | 12 |
| NEWBURYPORT* | 12 |
| NORTHAMPTON* | 12 |
| Northborough | 12 |
| Provincetown | 12 |
| South Hadley | 12 |
| Southborough | 12 |
| SPRINGFIELD* | 12 |
| Tyngsborough | 12 |
| West Newbury | 12 |
| West Roxbury | 12 |
| West Tisbury | 12 |
| Williamsburg | 12 |
| Williamstown | 12 |
Towns with 13 letters
Who says it's an unlucky number? NOT THE FINE PEOPLE OF WEST BOYLSTON!
| Middleborough | 13 |
| New Braintree | 13 |
| North Andover | 13 |
| North Reading | 13 |
| West Boylston | 13 |
Towns with 14 letters!
Ok uhhh....so here's a weird thing...there are no towns with 14 letters in their name. Literarlly every number since 3 is represnted but not 14. I find that weird, how about you?
Towns with 15 letters in their name!
RIGHT BACK ON TRACK BABY!
| East Brookfield | 15 |
| East Longmeadow | 15 |
| New Marlborough | 15 |
| West Brookfield | 15 |
Surely there can't be more than one town with 16 letters in its name can there be?
Uh duh! There's SEVEN!
| East Bridgewater | 16 |
| Great Barrington | 16 |
| Mount Washington | 16 |
| North Brookfield | 16 |
| West Bridgewater | 16 |
| WEST SPRINGFIELD | 16 |
| West Stockbridge | 16 |
The final two
First up is North Attleborough with 18 letters, which is shockingly NOT the longest name...
YOUR WINNER
It should come as no surprise to anyone who loves Massachusetts or just loves the films of Casey Affleck...but the town in Massachusetts with 21 letters to its incredibly long name is...
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA!!!!
