What names would you choose for post scarcity space stations?

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This prompt is inspired by Iain Banks’ Culture series. If you could choose the names for 10 large spaceships capable of carrying hundreds of millions of people in post scarcity utopic comfort which names would you choose and why?

Examples:
Heracles
Limitless
Obsidian
Elysium
Funland
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Primrose
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I agree with @Elckerlyc and Mr. Banks that there would be a tendency toward humor in a fancy-free society. Words of bravery might seem very odd in a conflictless world.

Other ways to go would be historical names (New Amsterdam) or more poetic alusions.
 

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Really you're going to get the name of every Nerd-ship like Millennium Falcon, Enterprise, Black Pearl, and Babylon Five (without 1-4) unless the culture dictates "stately" names like Freedom and Hope. They might even get computer-generated names that get changed to human attempts to pronounce them. I'm currently using a keyboard-mash name that has potential.
 

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And the let's hope inaccurately named
Cockroach Cluster
 
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Other ways to go would be historical names (New Amsterdam) or more poetic alusions.
I think that's the most likely, especially if the people aboard came from the same geographical places, so -

New England
New Orleans
Nova Scotia
New New York
A New Hope

However, maybe the person in charge of naming has absolutely no imagination at all, if so -

Tropical Habitat
Temperate Habitat
Habitat 201c
Habitat 108b
Habitat 54a
 

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I suppose that the closest to this would be the names of tower blocks in Mega City One. The name chosen would probably depend on who was naming them; military, scientists, government and the citizens who live on board would probably all come up with different names.
 

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