It's the Big Easy, Hollywood South and — of course — the Crescent City.
As the oldest city in Louisiana and one of the oldest places in the U.S., New Orleans has long held many nicknames. And one of it's most famous monikers, the Crescent City, dates back to the 1800s.
Here's how New Orleans got the nickname.
The origin of "The Crescent City"
When you hear Crescent City, you probably think of the crescent shape of the moon, that small curved sliver we see once a month as the moon wanes.
One 19th century author thought the geography of New Orleans as it was formed along the Mississippi River strongly resembled that same crescent shape.
Geographer Richard Campanella writes in his book "Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans," that Joseph Holt Ingraham, an author born in 1809 in Portland, Maine, coined the city's circular term in a travelogue he wrote in 1835.
In "South-West by a Yankee," Ingraham writes, "I have termed New Orleans the crescent city in one of my letters...from its being built around the segment of a circle formed by a graceful curve of the river...."
Since then, the name has stuck, and its easy to see why when looking at a map of New Orleans.
The prominent curves of the Mississippi form crescent shapes in areas of the city, like between the Bywater and the Irish Channel.
This map, printed in 1880, shows the bends of the river from Bywater to beyond the Irish Channel.
What about New Orleans' other nicknames? Are any of the rest that old?
"The Crescent City" nickname was formed at a specific time, unlike many other city nicknames, Campanella says.
Still some of New Orleans' other nicknames have roots that date far back, including The Big Easy and The City That Care Forgot.
Melinda Morris, the former Times-Picayune editor for life and culture, writes about the historical origins of both nicknames in a 2017 article.
The Big Easy name may have come from the fact that Black entertainers in the early 20th century had an easier time landing gigs in New Orleans. Ultimately, Times-Picayune/States-Item columnist Betty Guillaud popularized term in the 1970s and 80s.
As for The City That Care Forgot, a 2017 article in the New Orleans Bar Association newsletter said the phrase started in 1910 when Alfred S. Amer, who assumed control of the St. Charles Hotel, declared that the "The City Care Forgot'' would become the hotel's new slogan.