Onomastics explains the use of linguistic aspects and other aspects such as history and culture, life, and passion, as well as the reasons for the motivation and the purpose of the naming. An area’s landscape is commonly set as the background for its naming. This study aims to describe aspects of life in the village naming system based on the landscape in the Sipirok District. The data is in the form of village names. Sources of data in the form of written and oral data sources. Data collection techniques are brought by observation, interviews, and recording while the data analysis uses cultural-historical. Validation is done by triangulation of data and methods. The study found 6 elements of the landscape and several aspects of life behind the name of the village. The elements and aspects of life include aspects of landforms, plants, aspects of buildings, origins of places (functions of places, place markers, and directions of places), aspects of professions, and other aspects (expectations/ideals, customs, character of the population, legends).