Abstract
<jats:p>The article examines the evolution of public transport stop names in Lublin between 1993 and 2013, a period marked by dynamic urban, infrastructural, and administrative transformations. Drawing on a corpus of several hundred stop names documented in archival timetables, municipal records, press materials, and digital repositories, the study identifies the main tendencies in the formation, modification, and standardisation of urban toponymy within the city’s public transport network. The analysis demonstrates a gradual shift from situational, colloquial, and institution-based naming practices towards a more systematic, spatially anchored, and functionally transparent model. Particular attention is given to processes such as the elimination of commercial and ephemeral references, the consolidation of names into coherent stop complexes, and the alignment of nomenclature with the evolving street grid and newly emerging urban landmarks. The findings contribute to broader research on urban onomastics by illustrating how changes in transport infrastructure reflect transformations in the city’s linguistic landscape. The study also highlights the role of municipal policy in shaping naming practices and points to the need for further comparative analyses across Polish urban centres.</jats:p>