Statistics for North American Countries by Etymology

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Name Meaning	Country	% Correct
Named after Saint Dominic	Dominican Republic	93%
"The Savior"	El Salvador	92%
"Rich coast"	Costa Rica	91%
Named after Amerigo Vespucci	United States of America	89%
Huron-Iroquois word for "village" or "settlement"	Canada	84%
A combination of the native tribe that inhabited this country's big lake, and the Spanish word for "water"	Nicaragua	80%
The first name derives from the Holy Trinity, and the second name possibly comes from the indigenous word "tabaco"	Trinidad and Tobago	79%
"Ancient" and "Bearded"	Antigua and Barbuda	77%
"The Bearded Ones"	Barbados	77%
Derived from how Aztecs called themselves	Mexico	76%
The only country in the world named after a human female	St. Lucia	74%
"Christopher's Island" and "Our Lady of the Snows"	St. Kitts and Nevis	67%
Named for a city in Andalusia	Grenada	66%
"Land of wood and water" in English, "Xaymaca" in its native tongue Arawak	Jamaica	66%
Named after St. ____ of Zaragoza, and "pomegranates"	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	66%
Likely comes from the Taino language and could mean "where fertile land is abundant" or "great place"	Cuba	58%
"The Lord's Day"	Dominica	56%
"Depths" referring to deep waters off the coast	Honduras	54%
"Large upper middle island" or "shallow sea"	Bahamas	53%
Possible origins include "muddy-watered" or the Spanish pronunciation of "Wallace"	Belize	53%
"Place of many trees"	Guatemala	52%
From Guarani meaning: "Place of many fish," possibly	Panama	51%
"Land of mountains"	Haiti	45%