This work shows the processes of creation of city names. The process of shaping urban names has been changing over the years. It was a prolonged process depending on inhabitants. Citizens shaped their own names in their daily lives. The names usually informed about original landscape or employment of people. They reported economic and industrial progress or turbulent history of the city. Nowadays we can observe the paradigm of shift in naming function caused by officials. It is the effect of our life in a hurry.