Naming your home in different countries

[The Postman]

Usually country properties, on large lands, homestead types. I don't think these news are official or have any purpose. I have seen some houses in suburbia with names out the front, something like 'The Retreat' or 'Jacaranda' or something. But normal houses? Not usually.

[Ariete]

Old farmhouses and housing projects are sometimes named here, or houses that have been owned for long by a prominent family. Sometimes may have been named by the architect who designed it.

This house in Helsinki is called Cirrus:


The Ingman house in Turku:


'Hjorten' (The Deer) in Turku:


The Sederholm estate in Helsinki, the oldest apartment house still standing (1757):


Riddarborg (The Knights' Fortress) in Helsinki


Kaskenlinna (The Swidden (slash-and-burn) Castle) in Turku:


And so on...

[Avondrood]

Originally Posted by The Postman

Usually country properties, on large lands, homestead types. I don't think these news are official or have any purpose. I have seen some houses in suburbia with names out the front, something like 'The Retreat' or 'Jacaranda' or something. But normal houses? Not usually.

Yeah, same here in Belgium. Bigger house sometimes have names, but normal houses don't.

[Fabio SBA]

Here in Brazil only the buildings have individual names. And most don't use names in Portuguese. For a reason which I don't know, we have a lot of residential buildings with italian names such as 'Villaggio di Torino', 'Piazza Navona', 'Identità' and so on.

[yabadabadooo]

Homes are named in rural England, yes, sometimes, but, until recently, practically never in urban areas. It's 'cool', in suburbia, to name your house now, though.
Usually something stupid like Primrose Cottage when it's a massive brick behemoth.