Statistics for Etymology of US states and territories

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Language of Origin	Meaning	State	% Correct
Choctaw	"Albaamu", a tribal name meaning "thicket-clearers"	Alabama	87%
Spanish	"Flowery" after its discovery during the Easter season	Florida	86%
French	After King Louis XIV of France	Louisiana	85%
English	After a US president	Washington	85%
Latin	"Land of the Indians"	Indiana	82%
Spanish	"Mountain"	Montana	81%
Welsh and Latin	"Penn's Woods"	Pennsylvania	80%
Hawaiian	"Place of the Gods"	Hawaii	79%
Dutch or Greek	"Red Island" or after the name of a Greek island near to Turkey	Rhode Island	79%
English	After Queen Henrietta Maria	Maryland	78%
Spanish	"Snow-covered" after the name of a mountain range in this state	Nevada	76%
English	After Elizabeth I of England, who was known for never taking a husband	Virginia/West Virginia	76%
Latin via English	After King George II of Great Britain	Georgia	73%
English	After an English county, which derived its name from its largest city, Southampton	New Hampshire	73%
Aelut via Russian	"Mainland"	Alaska	72%
French	After the largest of the British channel islands, the birthplace of its founder	New Jersey	72%
French	"Green mountain"	Vermont	72%
Spanish	"Rich port"	Puerto Rico	69%
Kansa via French	After a river named for the Kaw tribe	Kansas	68%
Spanish	"Ruddy " or "red"	Colorado	67%
Miami via French	From the French spelling "Mescousin" of a tribal name meaning "river running through a red place"	Wisconsin	66%
Cherokee	After Tanasi, a local viliage	Tennessee	65%
English	"Mainland"	Maine	64%
Nahuatl via Spanish	A name imported from a Spanish territory, after the Aztec people who founded Tenochtitlan	New Mexico	63%
Latin via English	After King Charles I of England	North/South Carolina	62%
Ojibwe via French	"Large lake"	Michigan	61%
Ojibwe via French	"Great river"	Mississippi	60%
English	After the duke of an English walled city	New York	60%
Dakota via French	After French "Aiouez", a demonym for a native tribe	Iowa	55%
Disputed native language	Not known exactly, however the first use refers to apparently a native word for the Columbia River	Oregon	54%
Spanish	Probably a fictional island from a popular novel at the time	California	53%
Dakota	"Cloudy water"	Minnesota	50%
Sioux	"ally" or "friend"	North/South Dakota	47%
Caddo via Spanish	"Friends"	Texas	44%
French via English	After a French lord, whose name means "of the war"	Delaware	42%
Choctaw	"Red People"	Oklahoma	42%
Kansa via Illinois	After an Illinois rendering of a tribal name referring to the Quapaw	Arkansas	40%
New Latin	After Christopher Columbus	District of Columbia	39%
Western Apache via Spanish	From a Spanish demonym for the local tribe, which means "high" in their own language	Utah	39%
Eastern Algonquian	"At the long tidal river"	Connecticut	38%
Spanish or Basque	"Having a little spring" or "The good oak"	Arizona	37%
Seneca via French	"Large creek"	Ohio	33%
Munsee Delaware	After a Pennsylvanian valley, "At the big river flat"	Wyoming	32%
Iroquoian	After a major river, "on the meadow"	Kentucky	31%
Plains Apache	"Enemy", probably used to refer to the Comanches	Idaho	28%
Illinois	"Dugout Canoe"	Missouri	28%
Algonquian	a plural demonym meaning "at the great hill"	Massachusetts	26%
Algonquian via French	"Speaks normally"	Illinois	24%
Chiwere	"Flattened water"	Nebraska	24%
Chamorro	From "Guahan", meaning "What we have"	Guam	23%