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Not blaming you for not being familiar with European geography. Almost no European knows what Cincinnatti is either.
But I do notice that a lot of these names come from somewhere. Romulan is apparently a Star Wars thing. That's obviously the adjectival form of 'Romulus'. Atreides? It's the plural form for members of the terrible house of Atreus. All the names in The Hobbit? They come from the Voluspa.
It's difficult to make up plausible names, which is why it's either this or slightly modifying existing names - e.g. Robb, Eddard.
Most countries will use "words that sound foreign" to spice up their media. And that's usually enhanced by using real words, because the human brain knows what is a real word versus something completely made up even if they don't know the language.
The Japanese are famous for doing it with basically everything, often to the point where it creates allegories and stories that weren't intended through the depth of what they stole.
Evangelion is a famous example, where they just took so much gnostic and Old Testament shit that just sounded "cool" to them it created an entire mythos that people still read into looking for religious significance of anti-Jewish rhetoric.