List of American places named after people

This is a list of places in the United States of America which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place name.

A

• Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
• Abbott, Texas – Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
• Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
• Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire
• Acorn, Humboldt County, California – Alonzo and Elizabeth Acorn
• Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
• Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams
• Adams, New York – John Adams
• Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
• Adams Station, California – Mary Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
• Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
• Addington, California – Joseph and Jess Addington (local farmers)
• Addison, Maine and Addison, Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
• Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
• Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
• Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
• Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
• Albany, New York – James of York and Albany
• Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)
• Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
• Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
• Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
• Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
• Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
• Alexandria, California – Alexander C. McSwain (first postmaster)
• Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia)
• Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
• Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler)
• Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford
• Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great
• Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
• Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
• Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
• Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen
• Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
• Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
• Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
• Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
• Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
• Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
• Anderson, Mendocino County, California – Walter Anderson (founder)
• Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
• Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
• Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
• Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
• Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
• Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
• Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
• Annapolis, Maryland – Anne of Great Britain
• Annette, California – Annette L. Jenness (first postmaster)
• Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
• Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps
• Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
• Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
• Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
• Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
• Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)
• Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
• Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
• Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
• Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
• Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
• Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor
• Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
• Atlanta, Georgia – Atlas (indirectly, via the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the Atlantic Ocean)
• Atlanta, Texas – Atlas (indirectly, via Atlanta, Georgia)
• Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
• Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
• Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
• Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
• Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
• Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
• Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin
• Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
• Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
• Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
• Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)

B

• Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
• Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge
• Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works)
• Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
• Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward Dickinson Baker
• Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker
• Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
• Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
• Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
• Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
• Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
• Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
• Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
• Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site.
• Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
• Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
• Barnes, California – Peter Barnes (first postmaster)
• Barnes Settlement, California – Thomas Barnes (founder)
• Barre, Massachusetts, Barre (city), Vermont & Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
• Barrington, New Hampshire – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
• Barrow, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
• Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
• Bartlett, California – Frank J. Barlett (chemical company executive)
• Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
• Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
• Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
• Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
• Bastrop, Louisiana – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
• Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
• Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
• Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
• Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
• Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
• Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
• Bedford, New Hampshire – Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
• Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas)
• Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)
• Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
• Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)
• Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami
• Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
• Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni
• Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo
• Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
• Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
• Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)
• Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth
• Benton, 4 places in Arkansas/California/Maine/New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
• Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley
• Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
• Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
• Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
• Bethel, California – James W. Bethel (local merchant)
• Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
• Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
• Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings
• Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)
• Binghamton, New York – William Bingham
• Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
• Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
• Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
• Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
• Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
• Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
• Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
• Blakes Landing, California – Jeremiah Blakes (owner)
• Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
• Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
• Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant)
• Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
• Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
• Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
• Bondville, California – Stephen Bond (merchant)
• Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge (official of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad Company)
• Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
• Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
• Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen
• Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
• Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
• Bowdoinham, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
• Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
• Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
• Bradford Siding, California – Johnnie Bradford (clay businessman)
• Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
• Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
• Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
• Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
• Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
• Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
• Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
• Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
• Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
• Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
• Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
• Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
• Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
• Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges
• Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
• Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario on a trip to Niagara Falls)
• Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
• Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
• Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
• Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
• Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
• Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
• Brownsville, Calaveras County, California – Alfred Brown
• Brownsville, Yuba County, California – I.E. Brown (sawmill owner)
• Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
• Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas Brown (landowner)
• Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
• Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown
• Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
• Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
• Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
• Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
• Buck's Port, California – David A. Buck (founder)
• Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
• Bucknell, California – Charles M. Bucknell (early settler)
• Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
• Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
• Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
• Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
• Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
• Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
• Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
• Burkeville, California – Edwin Burke (mine owner)
• Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
• Burlington, Wisconsin – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
• Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
• Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
• Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
• Byron, Maine – Lord Byron (English poet)

C

• Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
• Cadenasso, California – Nicolo Cadenasso (early settler)
• Camden, Maine – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
• Cameron, California – George W. Cameron (early settler)
• Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
• Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)
• Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
• Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
• Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California)
• Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
• Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
• Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)
• Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
• Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
• Canby, California – General Edward Canby
• Canfield, California – Charles W. Canfield (founder)
• Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
• Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)
• Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
• Carey, California – George R. Carey (first postmaster)
• Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
• Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
• Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
• Carroll, New Hampshire – Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
• Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
• Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson
• Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
• Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
• Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
• Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
• Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
• Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin
• Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
• Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
• Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
• Cazenovia, New York – Theophilus Cazenove
• Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
• Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
• Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
• Chanz, California – George A. Chanz (first postmaster)
• Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
• Chardon, California – Charles Langdon (early settler)
• Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)
• Charleston, Merced County, California – Charles Bambauer (first postmaster)
• Charleston, Yolo County, California – Charles H. Gray (first postmaster)
• Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
• Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England
• Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
• Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy
• Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England
• Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
• Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)
• Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton
• Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
• Chatham, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)
• Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler)
• Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom)
• Chesterfield, Massachusetts – Earl of Chesterfield
• Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
• Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester
• Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
• Cicero, New York – Cicero
• Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)
• Christiana, Delaware – Queen Christina of Sweden
• Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
• Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
• Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
• Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark
• Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
• Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
• Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)
• Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland
• Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
• Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
• Clinton, 18 places in Arkansas/Connecticut/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Louisiana/Maine/Massachusetts/Lenawee County, Michigan/Macomb County, Michigan/Minnesota/Mississippi/Missouri/New Jersey/Clinton County, New York/Oneida County, New York/Ohio/Vernon County, Wisconsin – DeWitt Clinton
• Clinton, Lassen County, California – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Maine, home town of its first postmaster)
• Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
• Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton
• Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
• Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)
• Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton
• Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
• Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
• Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
• Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
• Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
• Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
• Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
• Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
• Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
• Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christoper Columbus
• Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
• Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
• Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
• Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
• Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
• Cordua Bar, California – Theodore Cordua (local merchant)
• Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
• Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
• Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
• Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
• Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
• Cortland, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
• Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt
• Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
• Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
• Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
• Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
• Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
• Craig, Modoc County, California – Robert A. Craig (first postmaster)
• Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
• Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
• Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
• Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
• Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
• Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
• Cromwell, California – F.T Cromwell (founder)
• Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
• Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
• Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
• Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy
• Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
• Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
• Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
• Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel Cummings (landholder)
• Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
• Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
• Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
• Cuttens, California – Charles R. Cuttens (first postmaster)

D

• Daby's Ferry, California – S. Daby (ferry operator)
• Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
• Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
• Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
• Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas
• Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
• Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
• Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family
• Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
• Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
• Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
• Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
• Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
• Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
• Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport
• Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
• Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
• Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
• Dayton, Maine – Thomas Day (submitted the petition for Dayton to separate from Hollis)
• Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton
• Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)
• Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day
• Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)
• Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
• Decatur, Illinois – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
• Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
• Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
• Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
• DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven
• DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)
• Delano, California – Columbus Delano
• Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delevan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)
• Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
• Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
• Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
• DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
• Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
• Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
• DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
• Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
• Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
• Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
• Diamondville, California – James Diamond
• Dickinson, California – William Legrand Dickinson
• Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, a town elder)
• Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
• Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
• Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
• Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
• Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)
• Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
• Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
• Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
• Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
• Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
• Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
• Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
• Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
• Downey, California – John G. Downey
• Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
• Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
• Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
• Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque
• Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
• Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
• Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
• Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
• Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer
• Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
• Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
• Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
• Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham

E

• East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis
• Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
• Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
• Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
• Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)
• Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
• Edgecomb, Maine – Lord Edgecomb (a supporter of the colonists)
• Edison, Georgia and Edison, New Jersey – Thomas Edison
• Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
• Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards
• Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
• El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
• Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry
• Elizabeth, New Jersey – Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)
• Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
• Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
• Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
• Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
• Ellicott, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)
• Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)
• Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
• Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
• Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
• Ely's, California – Benjamin Ely (first post master)
• Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)
• Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
• Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
• Emory, California – A. Emory Wishon (cement company official)
• Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
• Epperson, California – Brutus E Eperson (first postmaster)
• Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
• Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)
• Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder)
• Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
• Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner
• Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
• Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
• Evan's Ranch, California – Alvira Evans (first postmaster)
• Evans, Colorado – John Evans
• Evanston, Illinois – John Evans
• Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans
• Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
• Evelyn, California – Evelyn Smith (wife of Borax company official)
• Everett, Massachusetts – Edward Everett (politician and educator)
• Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)

F

• Fagan, California – Edward Fagan (local landowner)
• Fairbanks, Alaska – Charles W. Fairbanks
• Fairbanks, Mendocino County, California – Isabel G. Fairbanks (first postmaster)
• Fairfax, California – Charles S. Fairfax
• Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
• Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
• Fargo, North Dakota – William Fargo
• Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler)
• Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee – David Farragut
• Farwell, California – James Dumaresy Farwell (landowner)
• Fayette, 12 places in Alabama/Indiana/Iowa/Maine/Michigan/Mississippi/Missouri/New York/Ohio/Utah/West Virginia/Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas/Georgia/Illinois/Indiana/New York/North Carolina/Ohio/Pennsylvania/Tennessee/Texas/West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
• Femmon, California – Frank Femmon (apple grower)
• Fenton, New York – Governor Reuben Fenton
• Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
• Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
• Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
• Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
• Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
• Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)
• Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire – William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth)
• Flandreau, South Dakota – Charles Eugene Flandrau
• Fleener, California – Sam Fleener (homesteader)
• Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
• Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)
• Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
• Floyd, Virginia – John Floyd (Virginia politician)
• Floydada, Texas – Dolphin Floyd (died while defending the Alamo) and Ada Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via Floyd County, Texas)
• Fluhr, California – C.G. Fluhr (railroad official)
• Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
• Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth
• Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
• Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
• Fort John, California – John Stuart
• Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale
• Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee
• Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
• Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
• Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
• Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward
• Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne
• Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth
• Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster
• Foster Bar, California – William M. Foster (early settler and merchant)
• Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
• Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
• Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox
• Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)
• Franklin, 37 places in Alabama/Arkansas/Sacramento County, California/Connecticut/Georgia/Idaho/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kentucky/Louisiana/Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/Minnesota/Missouri/Nebraska/New Hampshire/New Jersey/Delaware County, New York/Franklin County, New York/Macon County, North Carolina/Surry County, North Carolina/Ohio/Cambria County, Pennsylvania/Venango County, Pennsylvania/Tennessee/Texas/Vermont/Virginia/West Virginia/Jackson County, Wisconsin/Kewaunee County, Wisconsin/Manitowoc County, Wisconsin/Milwaukee County, Wisconsin/Sauk County, Wisconsin/Vernon County, Wisconsin – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin Lakes, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin Park, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin Township, 77 places in DeKalb County, Illinois/DeKalb County, Indiana/Floyd County, Indiana/Grant County, Indiana/Harrison County, Indiana/Hendricks County, Indiana/Henry County, Indiana/Johnson County, Indiana/Kosciusko County, Indiana/Marion County, Indiana/Montgomery County, Indiana/Owen County, Indiana/Pulaski County, Indiana/Putnam County, Indiana/Randolph County, Indiana/Ripley County, Indiana/Washington County, Indiana/Wayne County, Indiana/Allamakee County, Iowa/Appanoose County, Iowa/Bremer County, Iowa/Cass County, Iowa/Clarke County, Iowa/Decatur County, Iowa/Story County, Iowa/Bourbon County, Kansas/Edwards County, Kansas/Franklin County, Kansas/Jackson County, Kansas/Clare County, Michigan/Houghton County, Michigan/Lenawee County, Michigan/Wright County, Minnesota/Bergen County, New Jersey/Gloucester County, New Jersey/Hunterdon County, New Jersey/Somerset County, New Jersey/Warren County, New Jersey/Rowan County, North Carolina/Surry County, North Carolina/Adams County, Ohio/Brown County, Ohio/Clermont County, Ohio/Columbiana County, Ohio/Coshocton County, Ohio/Darke County, Ohio/Franklin County, Ohio/Fulton County, Ohio/Harrison County, Ohio/Jackson County, Ohio/Licking County, Ohio/Mercer County, Ohio/Monroe County, Ohio/Morrow County, Ohio/Portage County, Ohio/Richland County, Ohio/Ross County, Ohio/Shelby County, OhioTuscarawas County, Ohio/Warren County, Ohio/Wayne County, Ohio/Adams County, Pennsylvania/Beaver County, Pennsylvania/Bradford County, Pennsylvania/Butler County, Pennsylvania/Carbon County, Pennsylvania/Chester County, Pennsylvania/Columbia County, Pennsylvania/Erie County, Pennsylvania/Fayette County, Pennsylvania/Greene County, Pennsylvania/Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania/Luzerne County, Pennsylvania/Lycoming County, Pennsylvania/Snyder County, Pennsylvania/Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania/York County, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina – Benjamin Franklin
• Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
• Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
• Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont
• Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
• Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
• Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
• Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
• Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)

G

• Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale
• Gallatin, Tennessee and other Gallatins – Albert Gallatin
• Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
• Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
• Garcia, California – Rafael Garcia (land grantee)
• Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
• Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
• Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
• Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
• Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
• Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
• Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
• Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
• Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
• Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
• George, Washington – George Washington
• George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
• Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
• Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
• Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
• Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
• Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
• Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
• Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
• Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
• Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
• Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
• Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
• Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
• Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
• Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
• Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
• Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
• Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
• Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
• Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
• Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
• Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
• Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
• Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
• Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years War)
• Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
• Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
• Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
• Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
• Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
• Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
• Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
• Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
• Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
• Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
• Grestley, California – James Grestley
• Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
• Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
• Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
• Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
• Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
• Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
• Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)

H

• Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
• Halifax, Vermont – Earl of Halifax
• Hall Station, California – John Hall (local landowner)
• Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
• Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
• Hamilton, Massachusetts – Alexander Hamilton
• Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
• Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
• Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
• Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
• Hampden, Maine – John Hampden (English patriot)
• Hancock, 5 places in Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/New Hampshire/Vermont – John Hancock
• Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
• Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
• Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
• Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
• Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
• Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
• Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
• Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
• Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr.
• Harrison, Maine – Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)
• Harrison, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
• Harrison, New York – John Harrison (Quaker leader)
• Harrison Township, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
• Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
• Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
• Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart
• Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)
• Haugan, Montana – H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
• Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)
• Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
• Hayward, California – William Hayward (early settler)
• Hayward, Minnesota – David Hayward (settler)
• Hazard, Kentucky – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
• Hazardville, Connecticut – Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer)
• Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
• Hearst, California – George Hearst
• Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath
• Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
• Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
• Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
• Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
• Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)
• Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (WWII casualty)
• Hershey, California – David N. Hershey (California assembly member)
• Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon B. Heyburn
• Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
• Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
• Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
• Hillsborough, New Hampshire – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
• Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
• Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)
• Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
• Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
• Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
• Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)
• Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
• Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
• Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
• Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
• Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
• Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
• Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
• Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note spelling)
• Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
• Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)
• Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
• Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins
• Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)
• Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
• Hopkinton, New York – early settlers with the name Hopkins
• Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
• Horton, California – Ben Horton (railroad official)
• Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)
• Houston, Minnesota and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston
• Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Brigadier General Benjamin Howard (officer in the War of 1812)
• Howard Springs, California – C.W. Howard (resort owner)
• Howards Grove, Wisconsin – H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster)
• Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
• Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)
• Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder)
• Hudson, Maine – Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts)
• Hudson, Massachusetts – Charles Hudson (United States Representative)
• Hudson, New York – Henry Hudson
• Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
• Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
• Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
• Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
• Huntington, West Virginia – Collis P. Huntington
• Huntington Beach, California – Henry E. Huntington
• Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
• Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler)
• Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
• Hutchins, California – T.B. Hutchins (local landowner)
• Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
• Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
• Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)
• Hylandville, California – L.C. Hyland (founder)
• Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)

I

• Iliff, Colorado – John Wesley Iliff (cattleman)
• Imusdale, California – Chales, Edwin, and William Imus (early settlers)
• Ira, Vermont – Ira Allen (one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
• Irasburg, Vermont – Ira Allen (landholder, one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
• Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder)
• Isabella, California – Queen Isabella of Spain
• Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
• Iverson, California – Charles Iverson

J

• Jackson, California – Colonel Alden Jackson
• Jackson, Maine – General Henry Jackson
• Jackson, Burnett County, Wisconsin – Stonewall Jackson
• Jackson, Wyoming – Davey Jackson
• Jackson, 14 places in Alabama/Georgia/Kentucky/Louisiana/Michigan/Minnesota/Mississippi/Missouri/New Hampshire/New Jersey/New York/Ohio/Tennessee/Washington County, Wisconsin – Andrew Jackson
• Jacksonville, Arkansas – Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners)
• Jacksonville, Texas – Jackson Smith (soldier)
• Jacksonville, 5 places in Alabama/Florida/Illinois/North Carolina/Oregon – Andrew Jackson
• Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
• Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family)
• Jamesan, California – J.G. James (first postmaster)
• Jamesburg, California – John James (founder)
• Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler)
• Jamestown, Rhode Island – James II of England
• Jamestown, Virginia – James I of England
• Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler)
• Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
• Jasper, Texas – William Jasper (American Revolution hero)
• Jay, Maine and Jay, Vermont – John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court)
• Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
• Jefferson, Maine and Jefferson, New Hampshire – Thomas Jefferson
• Jefferson City, Missouri – Thomas Jefferson
• Jeffersonville, Georgia – Thomas Jefferson
• Jenny Lind, California – Jenny Lind
• Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer)
• Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher)
• Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania – Jim Thorpe
• Joaquin, Texas – Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site)
• Joe, Montana – Joe Montana
• Joe Walker Town, California – Joe Walker
• Johnson, Vermont – William Samuel Johnson
• Johnston, Rhode Island – August Johnston (colonial attorney general)
• Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
• Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
• Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
• Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
• Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner)
• Joplin, Missouri – a Methodist minister in the new city
• Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder)
• Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
• Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
• Juneau, Alaska – Joe Juneau (prospector)

K

• Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
• Karlo, California – Frank De Carlow (early settler)
• Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
• Kasson, California – Amasa C. Kasson (investor in the site)
• Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier)
• Keene, New Hampshire – Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader)
• Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler)
• Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur
• Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
• Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
• Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
• Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
• Kensington, New Hampshire – Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
• Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
• Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
• Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
• Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters)
• Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
• Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
• Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
• Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
• King City, California – Charles King (founder)
• King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – After a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
• Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
• Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
• Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
• Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
• Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
• Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
• Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
• Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
• Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
• Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
• Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
• Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
• Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
• Knoxville, Tennessee – Henry Knox
• Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
• Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue
• Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
• Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
• Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)

L

• La Fayette, Alabama and La Fayette, Illinois – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
• Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
• LaFayette/Lafayette, 14 places in California/Georgia/Indiana/Kentucky/Louisiana/Minnesota/New York/Allen County, Ohio/Madison County, Ohio/Oregon/Tennessee/Chippewa County, Wisconsin/Monroe County, Wisconsin/Walworth County, Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
• Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
• Lafayette Township, 16 places in Coles County, Illinois/Ogle County, Illinois/Allen County, Indiana/Floyd County, Indiana/Madison County, Indiana/Owen County, Indiana/Allamakee County, Iowa/Bremer County, Iowa/Story County, Iowa/Chautauqua County, Kansas/Michigan/Minnesota/New Jersey/Coshocton County, Ohio/Medina County, Ohio/Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
• Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
• Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
• Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
• Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
• Land, California – A.H. Land (local lumber company president)
• Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
• Lanesborough, Massachusetts – Countess of Lanesborough
• Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
• Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
• Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long)
• Larkin's Landing, California – Stephen Larkin (early settler)
• Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
• Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
• Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
• Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
• Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
• Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
• Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
• Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
• Lebec, California – Peter Lebecque or Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
• Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
• Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
• Lee, Massachusetts and Lee, New Hampshire – General Charles Lee
• Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
• Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
• Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
• Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
• Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
• Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
• Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
• Levittown, 3 places in New York/Pennsylvania/Puerto Rico – William Levitt
• Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
• Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
• Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis (U.S. Representative from Kentucky)
• Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
• Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
• Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
• Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont – Major General Benjamin Lincoln
• Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad)
• Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
• Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
• Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
• Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
• Lippitt, California – Col. Francis J. Lippitt (founder)
• Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
• Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
• Livermore, California – Robert Livermore
• Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
• Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
• Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
• Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
• Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston
• Lockwood, 3 places in California/New York/West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
• Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
• Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
• Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
• Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
• Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
• Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
• Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
• Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
• Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
• Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
• Lowell, Massachusetts – Francis Cabot Lowell
• Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
• Lucia, California – Lucia Dani (first postmaster)
• Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
• Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
• Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
• Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
• Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
• Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
• Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
• Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
• Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
• Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
• Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)

M

• Machin, California – Tim N. Machin
• Macon, 3 places in Georgia/Missouri/North Carolina – Nathaniel Macon
• Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
• Madison, Maine and Madison, Wisconsin – James Madison
• Madison, South Dakota – James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin)
• Manchester, Vermont – Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
• Mandala, California – Mandala Kneeland (early settler)
• Mansfield, Massachusetts – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
• Mansfield, Ohio – Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)
• Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling)
• Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
• Marinette, Wisconsin – Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader)
• Marion, 14 places in Alabama/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kansas/Kentucky/Louisiana/Massachusetts/Mississippi/New York/North Carolina/Ohio/South Carolina/Virginia – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero)
• Marion, North Dakota – Marion Mellen (daughter of Charles Sanger Mellen)
• Marion, Oregon – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via Marion County, Oregon)
• Marion, South Dakota – Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, a railroad official)
• Marion, Texas – Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a plantation that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through)
• Marsh Creek Springs, California – John Marsh
• Marshall, Texas – John Marshall
• Marklee Village, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
• Markleeville, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
• Marlboro, Vermont – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
• Marlborough, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New York – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
• Marlborough, New Hampshire – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
• Martendale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder)
• Martinez, California – Don Ygnacio Martínez
• Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
• Martinus Corner, California – Jan Henry Martinus (landowner)
• Maryland – Queen Henrietta Maria of France
• Maryland, New York – Queen Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of Maryland)
• Marysville, California – Mary Murphy Covillaud (Donner Party survivor)
• Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk)
• Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
• Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
• Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
• Mattos, California – John Garcia Mattos, Sr. (early settler)
• Maupin, Oregon – Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
• Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
• Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder)
• Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
• McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
• McCann, California – William O. McCann (lumber mill operator)
• McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
• McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
• McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry
• McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley
• McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
• McMinnville, Tennessee – Joseph McMinn
• Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
• Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
• Mercer, Maine – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
• Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler)
• Meredith, New Hampshire – Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament)
• Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
• Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
• Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
• Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
• Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
• Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
• Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
• Milbank, South Dakota – Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
• Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles
• Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
• Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills
• Miller, California – James Miller (early settler)
• Millerton, Marin County, California – James Miller (wharf owner)
• Millerton, New York – Sidney Miller (railroad contractor)
• Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
• Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
• Millsaps, California – George W. Millsaps (early settler)
• Millsholm, California – Edgar Mills (landowner)
• Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
• Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
• Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
• Minear, California – John J. Minear (first postmaster)
• Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
• Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
• Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
• Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
• Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
• Monroe, 11 places in Connecticut/Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/New Hampshire/New Jersey/New York/North Carolina/Ohio/Utah/Washington – James Monroe
• Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
• Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
• Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
• Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson
• Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama/Massachusetts/Minnesota/New York – General Richard Montgomery
• Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
• Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
• Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
• Morgan, California – Charles Morgan (early settler)
• Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
• Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
• Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as the Yellow Rose of Texas)
• Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan
• Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
• Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
• Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
• Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
• Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
• Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
• Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton
• Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
• Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
• Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
• Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
• Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
• Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
• Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington
• Mower, California – Lloyd W. Mower (first postmaster)
• Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route)
• Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman)
• Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) - Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
• Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers)
• Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure)
• Murray, Kentucky – John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844)
• Murray, Utah – Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah)

N

• Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper
• Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster)
• Nashville, Tennessee – Francis Nash
• Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)
• Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler)
• Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero)
• New Franklin, Missouri and New Franklin, Ohio – Benjamin Franklin
• New Marlborough, Massachusetts – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
• New Orleans, Louisiana – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
• New Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
• New York City, New York – James of York and Albany
• Newbert, California – Leander Newbert (first postmaster)
• Newcastle, Maine – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Newell, California – Frederick Haynes Newell
• Newellton, Louisiana – Edward D. Newell
• Newfane, Vermont – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
• Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
• Newton, Texas – John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War)
• Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner)
• Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
• Nickerson, Kansas – Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president)
• Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
• Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
• North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
• North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
• Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder)
• Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
• Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
• Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

O

• O'Fallon, Missouri – John O. Fallon
• O'Neals, California – Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster)
• Ockenden, California – Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster)
• Odem, Texas – David Odem (San Patricio County sheriff)
• Odenton, Maryland – Oden Bowie (Governor of Maryland)
• Ogden, Utah – Peter Skene Ogden
• Ogilby, California – E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter)
• Old Ornbaun Hot Springs, California – John S. Ornbaun (early settler and rancher)
• Olean, New York – Olean Shephard (the first white child born here)
• Oleander, California – William Oleander Johnson (first postmaster)
• Orange, 4 places in Connecticut/Massachusetts/New Jersey/Virginia – William, Prince of Orange
• Orange, Ohio – William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via Orange, Connecticut)
• Ordbend, California – Edward Ord
• Orford, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
• Orinda, California – Katherine Philips (a poet whose nickname was "Matchless Orinda")
• Orlando, Florida – Orlando Reeves
• Orleans, Massachusetts – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
• Orloff, California – Orloff Miller (early settler)
• Ornbaun, California – John S. Ornbaumn (early settler and rancher)
• Orono, Maine – Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation
• Orrs Springs, California – Samuel Orr (early settler)
• Orwood, California – Orville Y. Woodward (promoter)
• Osburn, Idaho – Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling)
• Otis, Massachusetts – Harrison Gray Otis
• Otisfield, Maine – James Otis, Jr. (grantee)
• Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident)
• Owensboro, Kentucky – Abraham Owen
• Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard

P

• Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco
• Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
• Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
• Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
• Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
• Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
• Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
• Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson
• Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler)
• Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
• Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
• Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
• Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
• Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
• Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist)
• Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
• Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
• Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell)
• Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
• Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke
• Pendleton, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
• Pennsylvania – William Penn (Penn's Woods)
• Pentz, California – Manoah Pence (founder, first postmaster)
• Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
• Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins
• Perris, California – Fred T. Perris
• Perry, Maine and Perry, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
• Perrysburg, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
• Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
• Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
• Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
• Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
• Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
• Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
• Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
• Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
• Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
• Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
• Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
• Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
• Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
• Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
• Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
• Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
• Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
• Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
• Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsfield, 4 places in Maine/Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
• Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
• Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (settler)
• Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant
• Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
• Pleasanton, California – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
• Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello
• Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
• Pomfret, Vermont – Earl of Pomfret
• Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
• Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac
• Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
• Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
• Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
• Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
• Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
• Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
• Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
• Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
• Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
• Potter, California – Richard R. Potter (first postmaster)
• Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
• Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
• Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
• Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
• Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
• Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
• Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
• Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
• Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
• Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
• Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
• Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
• Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
• Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia/Illinois/New York/Tennessee/Virginia/Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
• Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
• Pullman, 3 places in Michigan/Washington/West Virginia – George Pullman
• Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman
• Purser, California – Edward T. Purser (rancher)
• Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam
• Pylema, California – Mary R. Pyle (early settler and postmaster)

Q

• Quanah, Texas – Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief)
• Quincy, Illinois – John Quincy Adams
• Quincy, Massachusetts – Colonel John Quincy
• Quincy, Washington – John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via Quincy, Illinois)

R

• Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
• Raleigh, North Carolina – Sir Walter Raleigh
• Rallsville, California – George W. Ralls (first postmaster)
• Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
• Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
• Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
• Randolph, New York – Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
• Randolph, Vermont – Edmund Randolph
• Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
• Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
• Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
• Raymond, California – T. Raymond (travel official)
• Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
• Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
• Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
• Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
• Redwine, California – Ida Redwine (first postmaster)
• Reed, California – John Reed (landowner)
• Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
• Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
• Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
• Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
• Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno
• Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer
• Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
• Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
• Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
• Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
• Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
• Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
• Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
• Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
• Rienzi, Mississippi – Nicola Gabrina Rienzi
• Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
• Ripley, Maine – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
• Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
• Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
• Rochester, New Hampshire – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England)
• Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York)
• Rochester, New York – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
• Rockingham, Vermont – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
• Rockwood, California – Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter)
• Rogersville, California – Lovely Rogers (local gold discoverer)
• Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder)
• Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
• Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
• Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
• Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
• Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
• Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
• Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
• Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
• Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
• Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
• Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
• Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)

S

• Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
• St. George, Vermont – Saint George
• St. Johnsbury, Vermont – Dr. Jonathan Arnold (member of the Continental Congress)
• St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
• St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis
• St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus
• St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul
• St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
• St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
• Salsig, California – Edgar Budd Salsig (lumber company owner)
• San Andreas, California – Saint Andrew
• San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua
• San Bernardino, California – Saint Bernardine of Siena
• San Bruno, California – Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek)
• San Diego, California – Saint Didacus
• San Francisco, California – Saint Francis
• San Jose, California – Saint Joseph
• San Juan Capistrano, California – Saint John Capistrano
• San Leandro, California – Saint Leander of Seville
• San Lorenzo, California – Saint Lawrence
• San Lucas, California – Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
• San Luis Obispo, California – Saint Louis of Toulouse
• San Mateo, California – Saint Matthew
• San Pablo, California – Saint Paul
• Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
• Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
• Sanford, Maine – Loleg Sanford
• Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
• Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
• Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico – Saint Anne
• Santa Barbara, California – Saint Barbara
• Santa Clara, California – Saint Clare of Assisi
• Santa Monica, California – Saint Monica
• Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man)
• Sawyers, California – Marvin L. Sawyer (first postmaster)
• Scarface, California – Scarface Charlie (a Native American warrior in the Modoc War)
• Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
• Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab
• Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott
• Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)
• Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
• Scottsdale, Arizona – George Washington Scott
• Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
• Scribner, California – Leila M. Scribner (first postmaster)
• Searsmont, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
• Searsport, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
• Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle
• Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick
• Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
• Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County)
• Sedgwick, Maine – Major Robert Sedgwick
• Sedona, Arizona – Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
• Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
• Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
• Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
• Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
• Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd
• Seward, Alaska – William H. Seward
• Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour
• Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter
• Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
• Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
• Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
• Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
• Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
• Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
• Sheridan, Wyoming – General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War)
• Shirley, Maine – William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts)
• Shirley, Massachusetts – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
• Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury
• Shumway, California – Susie Shumway (first postmaster)
• Shutesbury, Massachusetts – Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts)
• Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler)
• Sidney, Iowa – Sir Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
• Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
• Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
• Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
• Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
• Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
• Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
• Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
• Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
• Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
• Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
• Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
• Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
• Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
• Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
• Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
• Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
• Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
• Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
• Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
• Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
• Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
• Sorenson, California – Harold Sorensen (early settler)
• South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
• South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
• South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
• South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
• South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
• Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford
• Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
• Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
• Spence, California – David Spence (landowner)
• Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
• Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
• Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
• Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
• Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
• Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
• Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
• Stanfield Hill, California – William Stanfield (founder)
• Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
• Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
• Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
• Starks, Maine – General John Stark
• Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark
• Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
• Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark
• Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
• Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
• Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriot) (note spelling)
• Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
• Steuben, Maine – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
• Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
• Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
• Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
• Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
• Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
• Stockton, California – Robert F. Stockton
• Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
• Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
• Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
• Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
• Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
• Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
• Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
• Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
• Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
• Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
• Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
• Sullivan, New Hampshire – General John Sullivan
• Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
• Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
• Sunol, California – Antonio Sunol (landowner)
• Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
• Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
• Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
• Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
• Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
• Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
• Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)

T

• Taft, California – William Howard Taft
• Taliaferro County, Georgia – Benjamin Taliaferro (Continental Army Captain and U.S. Congressman)
• Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
• Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
• Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
• Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
• Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
• Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
• Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
• Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
• Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
• Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
• Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
• Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
• Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
• Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
• Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
• Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
• Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
• Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
• Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
• Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
• Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
• Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
• Toombs County, Georgia – Robert Augustus Toombs (U.S. Senator and C.S.A. Secretary of State)
• Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
• Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
• Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
• Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
• Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
• Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
• Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
• Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
• Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
• Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
• Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
• Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
• Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
• Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
• Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
• Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
• Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
• Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)

U

• Underhill, Wisconsin – William Underhill (settler from Vermont)
• Urban, California – Eva L. Urban (first postmaster)
• Uvalde, Texas – Juan de Ugalde (Spanish governor of Coahuila) (indirectly, via Uvalde County, Texas)
• Uxbridge, Massachusetts – Earl of Uxbridge

V

• Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca
• Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
• Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
• Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
• Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
• Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
• Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
• Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
• Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
• Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
• Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
• Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
• Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
• Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
• Virginia – Virgin Queen
• Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)

W

• Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
• Wade, California – Pinkston Wade (first postmaster)
• Wadsworth, Ohio – General Elijah Wadsworth
• Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
• Waitsfield, Vermont – General Benjamin Wait (founder)
• Wakefield, Massachusetts – Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
• Waldo, Maine – General Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
• Waldo, Wisconsin – O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
• Waldo Junction, California – William Waldo (early settler)
• Waldoboro, Maine – General Samuel Waldo
• Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
• Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
• Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
• Walong, California – W.A. Long (railroad official)
• Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
• Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
• Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
• Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
• Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
• Warren, 6 places in Connecticut/Maine/Massachusetts/New York/Pennsylvania/Vermont – Major General Joseph Warren
• Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
• Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
• Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
• Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
• Washington (U.S. state) and Washington, D.C. – George Washington
• Washington, 14 places in Georgia/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kansas/Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/Missouri/New Jersey/New Hampshire/New York/North Carolina/Pennsylvania – George Washington
• Washington Court House, Ohio – George Washington
• Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania – George Washington
• Washington Terrace, Utah – George Washington
• Washingtonville, New York and Washingtonville, Pennsylvania – George Washington
• Waterboro, Maine – Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
• Wayland, Massachusetts – Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
• Wayne, Maine – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
• Weare, New Hampshire – Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
• Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire – Daniel Webster
• Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
• Weld, Maine – Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
• Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
• Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
• Wellington, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
• Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
• Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
• Wesley, Maine – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
• West Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
• West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
• West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
• West Virginia – Virgin Queen
• West Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
• Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
• Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
• Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
• Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
• White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
• Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
• Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
• Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
• Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
• Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
• Whitlow, California – Albert Whitlow (first postmaster)
• Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
• Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
• Wibaux, Montana – Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
• Wible Orchard, California – Simon William Wible (early settler)
• Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
• Wicks Corner, California – Moses Wick (first postmaster)
• Wiest, California – Daniel W. Wiest (early settler)
• Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
• Wilkes County, Georgia – John Wilkes
• Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barre
• Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
• Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
• Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
• Williamsburg, Virginia – William III of England
• Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
• Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
• Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
• Willoughby, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
• Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
• Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
• Wilmington, 3 places in Delaware/North Carolina/Vermont – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
• Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
• Wilseyville, California – Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
• Wilsie, California – W.E. Wilsie (early farmer)
• Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
• Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
• Winchester, New Hampshire – Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
• Windham, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
• Windom, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
• Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
• Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
• Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
• Winslow, Maine – General John Winslow
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Joseph Winston
• Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
• Winthrop, Maine – John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
• Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
• Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
• Wolcott, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
• Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
• Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
• Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
• Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
• Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
• Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
• Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
• Wyandanch, New York – Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
• Wytheville, Virginia – George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)

X

Y

• Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
• Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
• Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
• Yorkville, California – R.H. York (founder)
• Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
• Youngs Hill, California – William Young and his brother (discoverers of gold at the place)
• Youngstown, Ohio – John Young (early settler)
• Ypsilanti, Michigan – Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)

Z

• Zanesfield, Ohio – Isaac Zane (younger brother of Ebenezer Zane)
• Zanesville, Ohio – Ebenezer Zane
• Zapata, Texas – Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
• Zavalla, Texas – Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
• Zillah, Washington – Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of the Northern Pacific Railway)

Former names

• Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
• Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
• Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
• Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
• Arp's' was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
• Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
• Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
• Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
• Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
• Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
• Black's was the name of Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
• Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
• Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
• Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California – Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
• Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
• Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
• Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
• Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
• Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire – John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
• Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
• Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
• Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
• Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee – Aaron Burr
• Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
• Cantu was the name of Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
• Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire – George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
• Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California – Kit Carson
• Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of Wawona, California – Galen Clark (founder)
• Clifton was the name of Del Rey, California – Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
• Cochran's Crossing was the name of Yolo, California – Thomas Cochran (early settler)
• Cockermouth was the name of Groton, New Hampshire – Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
• Collis was the name of Kerman, California – Collis Potter Huntington
• Converse Ferry was the name of Friant, California – Charles Converse (ferryman)
• Cowan Station was the name of Dunmovin, California – James Cowan (homesteader)
• Crabtown was the name of Helena, Montana – John Crab (early gold prospector)
• Crumville was the name of Ridgecrest, California – James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
• Dewey and Deweyville were names of Wasco, California – Adm. George Dewey
• Dorris Bridge was the name of Alturas, California – Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
• Dow's Prairie was the name of McKinleyville, California – Joe Dow (founder)
• Drapersville was the name of Kingsburg, California – Josiah Draper (founder)
• Dupplin was the name of Lempster, New Hampshire – Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
• Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
• Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
• Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
• Enfield was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
• Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
• Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
• Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado – Donald Fletcher (businessman)
• Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
• Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
• Greenwich was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
• Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire – George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
• Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
• Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
• Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
• Hansen was the name of Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
• Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
• Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
• Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
• Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California – Phoebe Hearst
• Hearst was the name of Vista Robles, California – George Hearst (early settler)
• Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
• Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
• Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
• Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia – President Andrew Jackson
• Jeram was the name of Carey, California – Father Jeram (community leader)
• Jewetta' was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
• Johnsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – John F. Johnson (early settler)
• Jones Ferry was the name of Friant, California – J.R. Jones (early merchant)
• Kellyvale was the name of Lowell, Vermont – John Kelley (grantee)
• Kendall's City was the name of Boonville, California – Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
• Kents Landing was the name of Little River, California – W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
• Kenyon was the name of Pineridge, California – Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
• Kunze was the name of Greenwater, California – Arthur Kunze (founder)
• Langville was the name of Capay, California – John Arnold Lang (early settler)
• Laphams was the name of Stateline, California – William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
• Levittown and Levittown Township were names of Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) – William Levitt
• Lewisville was the name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
• Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
• Marsh was the name of Avon, Contra Costa County, California – John Marsh
• Marshall was the name of Lotus, California – James W. Marshall
• Marshs Landing was the name of Antioch, California – John Marsh
• Maxwell's Creek was the name of Coulterville, California – George Maxwell (early settler)
• Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California – Henry Meiggs
• Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
• Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana – Minnie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
• Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
• Moores was the name of Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
• Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
• Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
• Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
• Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
• Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
• Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
• Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
• Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
• Pollasky was the name of Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
• Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
• Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
• Prescott was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel William Prescott
• Putnam's was the name of Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
• Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico – William Chapman Ralston
• Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
• Randall was the name of White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
• Reed was the name of Ostrom, California – Henry Reed (early settler)
• Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California – James Rolph (governor of California)
• Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California – Isaac Roop (settler)
• Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
• Ross's Camp was the name of Melborne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
• Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
• Ryan was the name of Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
• Scodie was the name of Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
• Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
• Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
• Smith's Landing was the of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
• Sotoville was the name of Santa Rita, Monterey County, California – Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
• Spoonville was the name of Edgemont, Lassen County, California – Lorella A. Spoon
• Stantonville was the name of Chilton, Wisconsin – Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
• Stratton was the name of Stratford, California – William Stratton (developer)
• Stubbs was the name of Clearlake Oaks, California – Charles Stubbs (landowner)
• Surrattsville was the name of Clinton, Maryland – Surratt family (18th century settlers)
• Swauger was the name of Loleta, California – Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
• Taylors Landing was the name of Bijou, California – Almon M. Taylor (founder)
• Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
• Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Barlow Trecothick (Alderman, Member of Parliament and a Lord Mayor of the City of London)
• Turner was the name of Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
• Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
• Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas – Saint Augustine
• Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
• Wells was the name of Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
• Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
• Weringdale was the name of Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
• Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
• Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
• Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
• Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)

See also

• List of places named after people
  • List of country subdivisions named after people
  • List of lakes named after people
  • List of islands named after people
• Buildings and structures named after people
  • List of eponyms of airports
  • List of eponyms of stadiums
  • List of convention centers named after people
  • List of railway stations named after people
• Lists of places by eponym
• List of eponyms
• Lists of etymologies