#2145

New Jersey is named after Jersey, in the Channel islands.

#2146

New Mexico is named after Mexico, which itself comes from the name of the Aztec war god, Mextli

#2147

New York was named after the Duke of York (after the colony was taken from the Dutch).

#2148

North and South Carolina are named after King Charles II

#2149

North and South Dakota are named after a Sioux word for 'friend' (and the Dakota tribe).

#2150

Ohio comes from an Iriquois word for 'beautiful water'

#2151

Ooooooooooooooooooklahoma (sorry had a song come on there)....

Oklahoma (my native state) comes from a Choctaw word for 'red people'

#2152

Oregon means you're out of Ore. Ore-gone.

No just kidding.

It comes from an Algonquian word for 'beautiful water' or 'beaver place' (researchers aren't sure which).

#2153

Pennsylvania was named after William Penn and the Latin word for 'woodland'.

#2154

Rhode Island comes from the Dutch for 'red clay'

#2155

South Carolina and South Dakota would come next, in that order. See above.

#2156

Tennessee comes from a Cherokee settlement name, origin unknown.

(as an aside, was it Tennessee or Kentucky that people wanted to name after Benjamin Franklin?)

#2157

Texas (which as a republic had its own individual states once upon a time) comes from the Spanish for 'allies'

#2158

Utah (which the Mormons wanted to name something else originally, but I forget what it was at the moment) comes from the Navaho for 'upper land' or 'land of the Ute'

#2159

Vermont comes from the French for 'green mountain'