List of nicknames for San Francisco

• 415 - referring to the area code that serves the city of San Francisco.
• Baghdad by the Bay - title of a book of essays by Herb Caen, and a nickname he used for the city because of the cosmopolitan cultural diversity it shares with the medieval city of Baghdad
• Fog City - in reference to San Francisco's famous fog
• Frisco - also the nickname of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, disparaged by Herb Caen and locals
• Golden Gate City - in reference to the Golden Gate Bridge
• San Fran - common name outside of the Bay Area. Particularly in Europe.
• SF - the initialism and the term most common among locals
• The City - used by residents of the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California
• The City by the Bay, or Bay City - refers to San Francisco Bay
• The City of Brotherly Love
• SFC = Sucka Free City.
• The City that Knows How
• The Golden City - in reference to the California Gold Rush and golden brown grass on hillsides in the dry season
• The Paris of the West - popular in the early 1900s, but no longer in common use