Statistics for Etymology of US States on a Map

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Language of Orgin	Etymology	State	% Correct
Aleut	"Mainland"	Alaska	78%
English	After a president whos surname is after a town in England	Washington	78%
Latin	After queen Elizabeth I of England who never maried	Virginia / West Virginia	70%
Nahuatl	After the Aztec people would founded the city of Tenochtitlan	New Mexico	65%
French	"Green Mountain"	Vermont	65%
Latin	"Land of the Indians	Indiana	61%
English	After a county in England which is named after said county's largest city which has the etymology of "Village-Town"	New Hampshire	61%
English / Norse	After a British island which has the etymology of "Geirr's Island"	New Jersey	57%
English / Celtic	After the duke of a British city which has the etymology of "Yew-Tree Estate"	New York	57%
(Native Language)	"Of the Gods" / after a legendary discoverer of the state	Hawaii	52%
French / Frankish	After a French king whos name has the etymology of "Famous"	Louisiana	52%
Spanish	"Mountain"	Montana	52%
Dutch / Greek	"Red" / After a landmass in the Aegean Sea	Rhode Island	52%
Spanish	After a fictional island from the novel "Las Sergas de Esplandián"	California	48%
Spanish	"Red"	Colorado	48%
Latin	After a British king whos name has the etymology of "Farmer"	Georgia	48%
English / French	"Mainland" / After the village of the states founder / After a French Province	Maine	48%
English / Hebrew	After a English queen whos name has the etymology of "Bitterness"	Maryland	48%
Spanish	"Snowy"	Nevada	48%
Spanish	"Flowery"	Florida	43%
Latin / Frankish	After a English king whos name has the etymology of "Man"	North Carolina / South Carolina	43%
Caddo + Spanish	"Friend" + "s"	Texas	43%
Welsh + Latin	After the founder whos name has the etymology of "head" + "Woods"	Pennsylvania	39%
Choctaw	"Red People"	Oklahoma	35%
Apache / (Native Language)	"High" / "People of the mountains"	Utah	35%
Ojibwe	"Large Lake"	Michigan	30%
Algonquian / Shoshone / Western Cree / Spanish / Portuguese / French	"Good and Beautiful (River)" / "River of the West" / "Grease Made From Fish" / "Big Ears" / "Hear the Waters" / A misspelling of "Ouisiconsink" / "Hurricane"	Oregon	30%
(Native Language)	"Wind"	Arkansas / Kansas	26%
Algonquian	"Speaks Normaly"	Illinois	26%
Dakota / Chiwere	"Sleepy Ones"	Iowa	26%
Eastern Algonquian	"At the Great Hill" + "s"	Massachusetts	26%
Ojibwe	"Great River"	Mississippi	26%
O'odham	"Little Spring"	Arizona	22%
Eastern Algonquian	"Long Tidal River"	Connecticut	22%
Lakota	"Cloudy Water"	Minnesota	22%
Seneca	"Large creek"	Ohio	22%
Choctaw	"Plant-Cutters"	Alabama	17%
French	"Of the War"	Delaware	17%
Plains Apache	"Enemy" / after a fictional native American world meaning "Gem of the Mountains"	Idaho	17%
Iroquoian	"(On) the Meadow"	Kentucky	17%
Sioux	"Ally"	North Dakota / South Dakota	17%
Chiwere	"Flattened Water"	Nebraska	13%
Cherokee	"Winding River"	Tennessee	13%
Miami-Illinois / Ojibwe	"River Running Through a Red Place" / "Red-Stone Place"	Wisconsin	13%
Miami-Illinois	"Dugout Canoe"	Missouri	9%
Munsee	"At the Big River Flat"	Wyoming	9%