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What is the origin of the names of the states in USA?
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I've always wondered where do these names originate from. Some of them don't even sound like English words - Wyoming, Idaho, Utah or Iowa, for instance.
Suppositions, anyone?
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Some of them are Native American in origin.
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At least one is Spanish. Florida = La Florida, 'flower-land'.
Some of them are named for people: Louisiana, Pennsylvania. That's all I know. *handing off to the Yanks* Boru
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Iowa:
possibly it means 'sleepy ones' I'm sure in grade school we were told it meant 'friend' or 'friends'. Not sure what to make of that. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
There's probably a few meanings for some of them. I noticed Arizona has quite a few on that page. Spanish "Arid zone" makes the most sense to me though, considering it's a desert state.
It's probably especially true for the states that have names of Native origin though, considering many of these languages have been lost or influenced by others we probably can't be sure what a lot of the names mean.
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The Carolinas were named after one of the King Charles.
North Carolina's capital is named after Sir Walter Raleigh. The city I grew up in Fayetteville, is named after Marquis de Lafayette  RE: What is the origin of the names of the states in USA?
July 14, 2015 at 6:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2015 at 6:47 pm by 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.
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