This is a report on a project aiming to create a list of place names from Coptic textual sources.After an overview of the history of research concerning Coptic place names, I describe mymethod and the material on which the list is based. So far it consists mainly of attestationsthat have been extracted from the indexes of text editions of documentary texts. The relevantbibliography has been compiled by consulting the “Checklist of Editions” used in papyrologicalstudies. Attestations from literary texts will hopefully be added later. I discuss also how bestto alphabetize Coptic place names and argue for the use of an alphabetical order instead of theconsonantal sorting order which is normally used in modern Coptic dictionaries. A samplepage from the name list is provided. Finally, I suggest that a synchronic point of view shouldbe taken in the subsequent onomastic analysis which is based on the list resulting from thisproject.