Structural and Social aspects of 5 villages names in Mae Chan Sub-district, Chiang Rai Province were investigated. In addition to documentary information , the interview of village headman, and elderly people in the villages was done.
In terms of structure, meaning of village names and finding about the reason of naming were use as basis of analysis: It was found that there are one major factors or reason for naming : 1) Geographical landscape and surround forest because In the past, Name of village was area ever had a lot of Plants after people had pioneers and build village to find the environment that characterized the village was named. It was found that structurally, village names can be constructed from one or three lexical element. Most village contain two lexical element. Meaning of names is bringing environment to combine together. Both common nouns and proper nouns are used.
In later The villages which is mostly plain field suitable for plantation. And names of village maintain until the present.