| Named After ... | State |
|---|
| Island in the English Channel | |
| Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of England's King Charles I | |
| Dakota Sioux for 'sky-tinted water' or 'cloudy water' referring to a river of the same name | |
| Cherokee village called Tanasi and corresponding river | |
| Queen Elizabeth I, the 'Virgin Queen' | |
| Sioux for 'south wind people' and a river of the same name | |
| Spanish for 'mountain' or 'mountainous' | |
| Similiarity of a state island to the Isle of Rhodes or Dutch for 'red island' | |
| Likely corruption of Miami for 'river running through a red place' or Chippewa for 'gathering of waters' | |
| Aztec for 'silver-bearing', Pima for 'little spring place' or Basque for 'good oak' | |
| The woods of William Penn | |
| Spanish for 'colored red' | |
| Probably refers to the 'mainland' as opposed to coastal islands | |
| Probably Iroquois river name meaning 'meadowland', 'dark and bloody ground' or 'land of tomorrow' | |
| Probably Choctaw for 'thicket-clearers' or 'we stay here' or Creek for 'tribal town' | |
| King Louis XIV of France | |
| Sioux for 'friend' or 'ally'; Northern region | |
| French for 'green mountain' | |
| Probably for fictional island in 16th century novel 'Las Sergas de Esplandián' | |
| Probably Polynesian for 'homeland' or for the traditional discoverer of the islands | |
| Lenape for 'at the big plains' or 'at the big river flat' | |
| River and bay named for Sir Thomas West, the 12th Baron De La Warr | |
| Algonquian for 'at or about the great hill' | |
| Ojibwe for 'big lake' | |
| King Charles I of England; Southern Region | |
