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Meaning
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Language of Origin
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State
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Word in Original Language
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"Flowery"
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Spanish
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Florida
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florida
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"Country of the virgin", after Elizabeth I of England
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Latin
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Virginia
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"Country of the virgin", after Elizabeth I of England
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Latin
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West Virginia
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"Penn's woods"
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Welsh and Latin
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Pennsylvania
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penn + silvania
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"Red island"
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Dutch
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Rhode Island
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roodt eylandt
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"Ruddy" or "red"
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Spanish
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Colorado
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colorado
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"Cloudy water"
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Lakota
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Minnesota
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mní sóta
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"Snow-covered"
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Spanish
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Nevada
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nevado
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Named for a fictional island ruled by Queen Calafia in the 16th-century novel Las Sergas de Esplandián
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Spanish
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California
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"Ally or friend"
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Sioux
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North Dakota
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dakhóta
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"Ally or friend"
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Sioux
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South Dakota
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dakhóta
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Named after the Kaw tribe
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Kansa via French
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Kansas
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kkan:ze via Cansez
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"Land of the Indians"
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Latin
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Indiana
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Derived from the name of the Aztec god Metztli
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Nahuatl via Spanish
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New Mexico
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Mēxihco via Nuevo México
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"Enemy"
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Plains Apache
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Idaho
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ídaahę
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"River running through a red place"
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Miami-Illinois via French
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Wisconsin
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wishkonsing via Ouisconsin
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"On the meadow"
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Mohawk
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Kentucky
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kenhtà:ke
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Named after a county in south-east England
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English
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New Hampshire
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"At the long tidal river"
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Easter Algonquian
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Connecticut
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quinnitukqut
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Named after Queen Henrietta Maria of England
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English
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Maryland
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Named after the Ioway tribe
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Chiwere via French
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Iowa
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ayuxwe via Aiouez
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Named after the Duke of York
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English
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New York
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"Speaks normally" - referring to the Illiniwek tribes
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Algonquian via French
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Illinois
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ilenweewa
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"Friend"
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Caddo via Spanish
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Texas
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táysha via Tejas
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Named after a Cherokee village, the meaning of which is unknown
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Cherokee
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Tennessee
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tanasi
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"High"
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Apache via Spanish
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Utah
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yúdah via yuta
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"Flattened water"
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Chiwere
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Nebraska
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ñįbraske
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Named with reference to the mainland, as opposed to the coastal islands
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English
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Maine
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main
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"Mainland"
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Aleut via Russian
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Alaska
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alaxsxaq via аляска
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"Mountain"
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Spanish
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Montana
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montaña
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"Good oak"
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Basque
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Arizona
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aritz ona
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Named after the first president of the United States
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English
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Washington
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"Green mountain"
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French
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Vermont
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vert + mont
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"Large lake"
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Ojibwe via French
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Michigan
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mishigami
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"Dugout canoe"
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Miami-Illinois via French
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Missouri
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mihsoori
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"Large creek"
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Seneca via French
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Ohio
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ohi:yo
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"Thicket clearers"
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Choctaw
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Alabama
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alabamaaha
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"Near the great little-mountain"
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Eastern Algonquian
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Massachusetts
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muswachusut
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Named after Louis XIV of France
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French
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Louisiana
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Louisiane
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"Red people"
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Choctaw
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Oklahoma
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okla + homa
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"Great river"
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Ojibwe via French
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Mississippi
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misi-ziibi
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"Named after the largest of the British Channel Islands"
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French
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New Jersey
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Named after King Charles I of England
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Latin via English
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North Carolina
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Carolus via Carolana
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Named after King Charles I of England
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Latin via English
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South Carolina
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Carolus via Carolana
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"At the big river flat"
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Munsee
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Wyoming
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xwé:wamank
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Named after Hawaiki, legendary homeland of the Polynesians
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Hawaiian
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Hawaii
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hawai'i
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Named after King George II of Great Britain
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Latin via English
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Georgia
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Georgius
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Named after the first Governor-General of the Colony of Virginia
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Norman French via English
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Delaware
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de la Warr
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Borrowed from a French spelling of a Miami-Illinois rendering of a name for the Kaw tribe
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Kansa via Miami-Illinois and French
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Arkansas
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akaansa
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Disputed origin
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Unknown
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Oregon
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