What is the origin of the names of the states in USA?

[CapnAwesome]

So the original thirteen colonies were mostly named after British things and people. New York, New Jersey, Carolina. One in particular is that Virgina is supposedly because queen Elizabeth is a virgin queen (because she never married, although we know that she has several lovers) After that they are largely named after Native American tribes and lands, mostly they were territories before we ever set foot in them, so we just retained what we were calling it before. A few have Spanish names, specifically those that were owned by Spain or Mexico and we bought or took. I think California is Spanish and certainly the names of most of the cities are.