List of places in the United States named after people

Many United States placenames are derived either from a person who ma have been associated with the founding of the place, or in honor of a notable person. If there is no citation for a place on this list, its etymology is usually described and referenced in the article about the person or the place.

• Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Levy (founder)^[1]
• Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)^[1]
• Abbott, Texas – Joseph "Jo" Abbott (politician)^[2]
• Abbottstown, Pennsylvania – John Abbott (founder)^[1]
• Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
• Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire^[3]
• Ableman, Wisconsin – S.V.R. Ableman (settler)^[1]
• Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder)^[4]
• Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer)^[5]
• Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster)^[4]
• Adairville, Kentucky – John Adair (governor of Kentucky)^[4]
• Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
• Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams^[6]
• Adams, Nebraska – J.O. Adams (settler)^[7]
• Adams, New York – John Adams^[8]
• Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
• Adams, Tennessee – Reuben Adams (landowner)^[7]
• Adamsboro, Indiana – George E. Adams (founder)^[7]
• Adamsburg, Pennsylvania – John Adams^[7]
• Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
• Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
• Adamstown, Pennsylvania – John Adams^[7]
• Adamsville, Arizona – Charles S. Adams (original settler)
• Addison, 4 places in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)^[7]
• Addison, West Virginia – Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer)^[7]
• Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
• Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian^[9]
• 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)
• Aiken, South Carolina – William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina)^[7]
• Ainsworth, Iowa – D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer)^[10]
• Ainsworth, Washington – J.C. Ainsworth (railroader)^[10]
• Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
• Albany, New York – James of York and Albany^[11]
• Albemarle, North Carolina – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle^[10]
• Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners)^[12]: 1387
• Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)^[10]
• 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^[13]
• Alburgh, Vermont – Ira Allen (landowner)^[14]
• Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
• Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
• Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler)^[14]
• Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister)^[14]
• Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator)^[14]
• Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton^[15]
• Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state)^[14]
• Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler)^[14]
• 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^[14]
• Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler)^[14]
• Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great^[14]
• Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger^[14]
• Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
• Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
• Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers)^[16]
• Allenstown, New Hampshire – Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire)^[16]
• Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
• Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen^[16]
• Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway^[16]
• Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant)^[16]
• Almont, Michigan – Juan Almonte^[17]
• Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
• Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders)^[18]
• Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois)^[17]
• Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)^[17]
• Alva, Florida – Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
• Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)^[17]
• Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
• Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)^[17]
• Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler)^[17]
• Amelia Court House, Virginia – Princess Amelia of Great Britain^[19]
• Ames, Iowa – Oakes Ames
• Ames, New York – Fisher Ames^[19]
• Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine)^[19]
• Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
• Anastasia Island, Florida – Saint Anastasia^[19]
• Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson^[19]
• Anderson, Kansas – Joseph C. Anderson (state legislator)^[20]
• Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson^[20]
• Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
• Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
• Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church^[20]
• Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)^[20]
• Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
• Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife)^[20]
• Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain^[21]
• Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives)^[20]
• Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife)^[20]
• Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
• Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)^[22]
• Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps^[23]
• Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner)^[24]
• Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
• Anthony, Kansas – George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas)^[25]
• Applebachsville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Paul Applebach^[26]
• Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)^[12]: 444
• Appleton, Maine^[27] and Appleton, Wisconsin^[26] – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
• Appling, Georgia – Col. Dan Appling^[26]
• Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
• Archdale, North Carolina – John Archdale^[26]
• Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
• Arenzville, Illinois – Francis A. Arenz (founder)^[26]
• Arietta, New York – Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer)^[28]
• Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)^[29]
• Armourdale, Kansas – Armour brothers (founders of Armour and Company)^[28]
• Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
• Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold^[12]: 1390
• Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
• Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
• Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
• Asbury Park, New Jersey – Francis Asbury^[30]
• Ashburnham, Massachusetts – John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham^[30]
• Ashbyburg, Kentucky – Gen. Stephen Ashby^[30]
• Asheboro, North Carolina – Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina)^[30]
• Asherville, Indiana – John Asher (founder)^[30]
• Ashford, Alabama – Thomas Ashford^[30]
• Ashley, Michigan – H.W. Ashley (manager of the Ann Arbor Railroad)^[30]
• Ashley River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury^[30]
• Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
• Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor^[31]
• Atchison, Kansas – David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator)^[32]
• Aten, Nebraska – John Aten (state senator)^[33]
• Athol, Massachusetts – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl^[33]
• Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)^[34]
• Atkinson, New Hampshire – Theodore Atkinson (landowner)^[34]
• Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
• Atwater, Minnesota – Isaac Atwater (settler of St. Paul)^[34]
• Atwater Township, Ohio – Amzi Atwater (surveyor)^[34]
• Atwood, Kansas – Attwood Matheny (founder's son)^[34]
• Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
• Audubon, Minnesota – John James Audubon^[34]
• Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha^[35]
• Augusta, Kansas – Augusta James (trader's wife)^[34]
• Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)^[36]
• Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
• Aurelius, New York – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)^[37]
• Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)^[38]
• Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin^[39]
• Ave Maria, Florida – Mary, mother of Jesus
• Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
• Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
• Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
• Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway)^[37]
• Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)^[37]

• 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 D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon)^[40][41]
• Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator^[42]
• Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker^[43]
• Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner)^[44]
• Baldwin, Georgia – Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator)^[44]
• Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple)^[44]
• Baldwin, Michigan – Governor Henry P. Baldwin^[44]
• Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers)^[44]
• Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler)^[44]
• Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin^[44]
• Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)^[44]
• Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
• Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York – Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler)^[45]
• Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore^[45]
• Banning, California – Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles.
• Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler)^[45]
• Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga^[45]
• Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
• Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
• Barboursville, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia)^[45]
• 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^[46]
• Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger^[46]
• Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton^[15]
• Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler)^[46]
• Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler)^[46]
• Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)^[46]
• Barnes, Kansas – A.S. Barnes (publisher)^[46]
• Barnum, Denver, Colorado – P. T. Barnum (landowner)^[46]
• Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family^[46]
• Barraque Township, Arkansas – Antoine Barraque (landowner)^[47][48]
• Barre, Massachusetts, Barre, New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)^[46]
• Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island^[46] – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
• Barron, Wisconsin – Henry D. Barron (judge)^[46]
• Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
• Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
• Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett^[49]
• Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
• Barton, Vermont – General William Barton^[49]
• Bartow, Florida and Bartow, Georgia^[49] – Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general)
• Bastrop, Louisiana and Bastrop, Texas – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)^[49]
• Batesville, Arkansas – James Woodson Bates^[49]
• Batesville, Ohio – Rev. Timothy Bates^[49]
• Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
• Bath, New York – Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath^[49]
• Battleboro, North Carolina – James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders)^[50]
• Bayard, West Virginia – Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware)^[51]
• Bayfield, Wisconsin – Rear Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield^[50]
• Bay St. Louis, Mississippi – Louis IX of France^[50]
• Beacon, Iowa – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield^[50]
• Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
• Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
• Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)^[52]
• Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)^[52]
• Beattie, Kansas – A. Beattie (mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri)^[52]
• Beattyville, Kentucky – Samuel Beatty (settler)^[52]
• Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort^[52][53]
• Beauregard, Mississippi – P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general)^[52]
• Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
• Becker, Minnesota – George Loomis Becker (mayor of Saint Paul)^[52]
• Beckley, West Virginia – Gen. Alfred Beckley (settler)^[52]
• Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler^[54]
• Bedford, Massachusetts – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford^[52]
• Bedford, New Hampshire and Bedford, Virginia^[55] – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
• Bedford, Tennessee – Thomas Bedford^[52]
• Beebe, Arkansas – Roswell Beebe (settler)^[52]
• Beecher City, Illinois – Charles A. Beecher (railroader)^[56]
• Beekman, New York – Henry Beekman (landowner)^[56]
• Beekmantown, New York – William Beekman (landowner)^[56]
• Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas)^[57]
• Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)^[58]
• Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)^[12]: 355
• Belleville, Kansas – Arabelle Tutton (landowner's wife)^[56]
• Bellingham, Massachusetts – Governor Richard Bellingham^[56]
• Bellingham, Washington – Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet^[59]
• Bellmont, New York – William Bell (landowner)^[56]
• Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)^[56]
• Bellwood, Nebraska – D.J. Bell (landowner)^[56]
• Belmont, Missouri^[60] and Belmont, New Hampshire^[61] – August Belmont (financier)
• Belton, Texas – Governor Peter Hansborough Bell^[60]
• Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami^[60]
• Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
• Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni^[60]
• Bemis Heights, New York – Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper)^[60]
• Benedicta, Maine – Bishop Benedict Fenwick (landowner)^[60]
• Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo)^[60]
• Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
• Bennett, Iowa – Chet Bennett (railroader)^[60]
• Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
• Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth^[60] (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)^[62]
• Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth^[60]
• Benton, 7 places in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton^{[63][64][65][60]}
• Benton, New York – Levi Benton (settler)^[66]
• Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Bentonia, Mississippi – Bentonia Green (resident)^[66]
• Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
• Benwood, West Virginia – Benjamin Latrobe II^[66]
• Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
• Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley^[67]
• Berkeley Springs, West Virginia – colonial governor William Berkeley^[66]
• Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley^[66] (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
• Berkley, Virginia – Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt^[66]
• Bermuda, 5 places in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee – Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after Bermuda)^[66]
• Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
• Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet^[66]
• Berrien Township, Michigan – John M. Berrien^[66]
• Berryville, Arkansas – Governor James H. Berry^[68]
• Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)^[68]
• Bessemer, Alabama, Bessemer, Michigan, and Bessemer City, North Carolina – Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process)^[68]
• Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
• Beverly, West Virginia – William Beverly (landowner)^[68]
• Bevier, Kentucky and Bevier, Missouri – Col. Robert Bevier^[68]
• Bexar, 4 places in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas (county) – Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar)^[68][69]
• Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
• Bienville, Louisiana – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville^[68]
• Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings^[70]
• Billingsport, New Jersey – Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the spelling)^[70]
• Biltmore Forest, North Carolina – George Washington Vanderbilt II^[70]
• Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)^[70]
• Binghamton, New York – William Bingham^[70]
• Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit^[12]: 451
• Birdsall, New York – John Birdsall (judge)^[70]
• Birdsboro, Pennsylvania – William Bird (landowner)^[70]
• Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
• Bismarck, Missouri and Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck^[70]
• Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
• Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)^[71]
• Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
• Bladenboro, North Carolina – Martin Bladen^[71]
• Blaine, Maine – James G. Blaine^[71]
• Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)^[72]
• Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)^[12]: 358
• Blairstown, Iowa and Blairstown, New Jersey – John Insley Blair (railroad magnate and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men)^[72]
• Blairsville, Pennsylvania – John Blair (resident)^[72]
• Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy^[72]
• Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
• Blanchard, Maine – Charles Blanchard (landowner)^[72]
• Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
• Blandford, Massachusetts – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford)^[72]
• Blandville, Kentucky – Capt. Bland Ballard^[72]
• Bleecker, New York – Rutger Jansen Bleecker (landowner)^[72]
• Blissfield, Michigan – Henry Bliss (landowner)^[72]
• Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant and founder)^[72]
• Bloomfield, New Jersey – Governor Joseph Bloomfield^[72]
• Blossburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Bloss (settler)^[72]
• Blountsville, Indiana – Andrew Blount (founder)^[72]
• Blythe, California – Thomas Henry Blythe; San Francisco capitalist
• Boardman, Ohio – Frederick Boardman (landowner)^[73]
• Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
• Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
• Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer)^[73]
• Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee – Simón Bolivar^[73]
• Bolton, Massachusetts – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[74]
• Bonaparte, Iowa – Napoleon Bonaparte^[74]
• Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
• Bondurant, Iowa – A.C. Bondurant^[74]
• Bonham, Texas – Col. J.B. Bonham^[74]
• Bonner Springs, Kansas – Robert E. Bonner (editor of the New York Ledger)^[74]
• Bonneville, Oregon – Benjamin Bonneville (explorer)^[74]
• Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
• Boone, North Carolina, Boone Station, Kentucky, and Boonville, North Carolina – Daniel Boone^[75]
• Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
• Boonton, New Jersey – Thomas Boone (colonial governor)^[74]
• Boonville, New York – Gerrit Boon (land agent)^[76]
• Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
• Borden, Texas – Gail Borden (customs official)^[76]
• Bordentown, New Jersey – Joseph Borden (founder)^[76]
• Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen^[77]
• Bossier City, Louisiana – Pierre Bossier (general)^[76]
• Bostic, North Carolina – George T. Bostic^[76]
• Bottineau, North Dakota – Pierre Bottineau (settler)^[76]
• Bouckville, New York – Governor William C. Bouck^[76]
• Bourbon, Indiana – House of Bourbon^[78]
• Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
• Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)^[79]
• Bowdoinham, Maine – William Bowdoin (landowner)^[80]
• Bowerstown, New Jersey – Michael B. Bowers (iron foundry owner)
• Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
• Bowie, Texas – James Bowie^[78]
• Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)^[12]: 453
• Boyd, Kentucky – Lt. Governor Linn Boyd^[78]
• Boylston, New York – Thomas Boylston (doctor)^[78]
• Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman^[78]
• Braddock, Pennsylvania – Gen. Edward Braddock^[78]
• Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War^[81]
• Bradford, Pennsylvania – Attorney General William Bradford^[81]
• Bradfordsville, Kentucky – Peter Bradford (settler)^[81]
• Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
• Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
• Bradley Beach, New Jersey – James A. Bradley (landowner)^[81]
• Bradshaw City, Arizona – William D. Bradshaw
• Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania – Capt. Samuel Brady^[81]
• Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
• Brainerd, Kansas – E.B. Brainerd (landowner)^[81]
• Brainerd, Minnesota – David Brainerd (missionary)^[81]
• Brandon, Mississippi – Governor Gerard Brandon^[81]
• Brant, New York – Joseph Brant^[81]
• Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
• Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
• Brasher, New York – Philip Brasher (landowner)^[81]
• Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)^[82]
• Breckenridge - John C. Breckinridge, 4 places in

• Colorado - Minnesota - Missouri - Texas (all spelling variants)^[82]

• Breedsville, Michigan – Silas Breed (settler)^[82]
• Breese, Illinois – Lt. Governor Sidney Breese^[82]
• Brevard County, Florida and Brevard, North Carolina – Ephraim J. Brevard (possible author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)^[82]
• Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)^[82]
• Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster^[82]
• Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
• Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)^[82]
• Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
• Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
• Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
• Bridger, Montana – Jim Bridger (frontiersman)^[82]
• Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges (settler)^[83]
• Briensburg, Kentucky – James Brien (state legislator)^[83]
• Brigham City, Utah – Brigham Young^[83]
• Briscoe, Texas – Andrew Briscoe (Texian patriot)^[83]
• Bristol (village), Wisconsin – Rev. Ira Bristol (settler)^[83]
• Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
• Brockport, New York – Hiel Brockway (settler)^[83]
• Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario, on a trip to Niagara Falls)
• Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)^[12]: 454
• Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
• Bronson, Kansas – Ira D. Bronson (prominent resident of Fort Scott)^[83]
• the Bronx, New York City – Jonas Bronck (settler)^[83]
• Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)^[83]
• Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks^[83]
• Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
• Brookville, Indiana – Jesse Brook Thomas (proprietor)^[84]
• Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
• Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)^[84]
• Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)^[84]
• Brownstown, Indiana, Brownsville, Kentucky, and Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)^[84][85]
• Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
• Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
• Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas and Basil Brown (landowners)^[84]
• Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown^[86]
• Browntown, Wisconsin – William G. Brown (settler)^[84]
• Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)^[84]
• Brownville, Nebraska – Richard Brown (settler)^[84]
• Brownville, New York – John Brown (settler and father of General Jacob Jennings Brown)^[84]
• Brownwood, Texas – Henry S. Brown (settler)^[84]
• Bruceville, Indiana – William Bruce (landowner)^[84]
• Brunswick, Maine – House of Brunswick^[87]
• Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
• Brushton, New York – Henry N. Brush (landowner)^[88]
• Brutus, 4 places in Kentucky, Michigan, New York, and Virginia – Marcus Junius Brutus^[88]
• Bryan, Ohio – John A. Bryan (state auditor)^[88]
• Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
• Bryson City, North Carolina – T.D. Bryson (state legislator and landowner)^[88]
• Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
• Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan^[89]
• Buchanan, Virginia – John Buchanan (settler)^[88]
• Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)^[88]
• Buckner, Missouri – Senator Alexander Buckner or Real Estate operator Simon Buckner or namesake is Thomas W. Buckner, an original owner of the site.
• Bucks Bridge, New York – Isaac Buck (settler)^[88]
• Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado – Joseph Higginbotham (frontiersman nicknamed "Buckskin Joe")^[88]
• Bucksport, California – David A. Buck (founder)^[88]
• Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)^[88]
• Bucoda, Washington – J.M. Buckley, Samuel Coulter, and John B. David (businessmen)^[90]
• Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
• Bullittsville, Kentucky – Alexander Scott Bullitt^[91]
• Bullochville, Georgia – Archibald Bulloch^[91]
• Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
• Bunceton, Missouri – Harvey Bunce (resident)^[91]
• Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
• Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
• Burden, Kansas – Robert F. Burden (landowner)^[91]
• Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
• Bureau County, Illinois and Bureau Junction, Illinois – Pierre de Buero (trader) (note the spelling)^[91]
• Burgaw, North Carolina – Burgaw family (residents)^[91]
• Burke (town), New York and Burke, Vermont – Edmund Burke^[91]
• Burleson, Texas – Edward Burleson (Texian patriot)^[91]
• Burlingame, California - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)^[92]
• Burlingame, Kansas – Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)^[91]
• Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one).^[91][93][94]
• Burnet, Texas – Governor David G. Burnet^[91]
• Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder)^[91]
• Burnsville, North Carolina – Otway Burns (boat captain)^[91]
• Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
• Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)^[91]
• Burrton, Kansas – I.T. Burr (Vice President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)^[95]
• Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
• Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
• Busti, New York – Paolo Busti (landowner)^[95]
• Butler, Missouri – General William O. Butler^[95]
• Buxton, Oregon – Henry Buxton (settler)^[95]
• Byers, Colorado – W.N. Byers (Denver resident)^[95]
• Bynumville, Missouri – Dr. Joseph Bynum (settler)^[95]
• Byron, 3 places in Georgia, Maine, and New York – Lord Byron (English poet)^[96][95]

• Cable, Illinois – Ransom R. Cable (railroader)^[97]
• Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
• Cadillac, Michigan – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac^[97]
• Cadott, Wisconsin – Baptiste Cadotte (resident) (note the spelling)^[97]
• Caldwell, Kansas – Alexander Caldwell (U.S. Senator)^[98]
• Caldwell, New Jersey – Rev. James Caldwell^[98]
• Caldwell, Ohio – Joseph and Samuel Caldwell (landowners)^[98]
• Caldwell, Texas – Mathew Caldwell (Texian patriot)^[98]
• Calhoun, Kentucky – John Calhoun (judge)^[98]
• Callaway, Missouri – Capt. James Callaway^[98]
• Callensburg, Pennsylvania – Hugh Callen (founder)^[98]
• Calvert, Maryland – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore^[99]
• Camano Island, Washington – Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling)^[99]
• Camden, 4 places in Maine, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden^[100][99]
• Cameron, 3 places in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia – Simon Cameron^[99]
• Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
• Cameron, New York – Dugald Cameron (land agent)^[99]
• Cameron, South Carolina – J. Donald Cameron (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania)^[99]
• Cameron, Texas – Ewen Cameron (Texian patriot)^[99][101]
• Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)^[102]
• 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)
• Campbell, New York – Campbell family (settlers)^[99]
• Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)^[103]
• Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
• Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
• Canal Lewisville, Ohio – T.B. Lewis (founder)^[104]
• Canby, California^{[citation needed]} and Canby, Oregon^[105] – General Edward Canby
• Canfield, Ohio – Jonathan Canfield (proprietor)^[105]
• Cannonsburg, Michigan – Le Grand Cannon (resident of Troy, New York)^[105]
• Cannonsville, New York – Benjamin Cannon (landowner)^[105]
• Canonsburg, Pennsylvania – John Cannon (founder) (note the spelling)^[106]
• Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
• Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury^[107]
• Capac, Michigan – Manco Cápac (Incan emperor)^[106]
• Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)^[108]
• Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)^[106]
• Cape May, New Jersey – Cornelius Jacobsen May (explorer)^[106]
• Cape Vincent, New York – Vincent, son of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont^[106]
• Captain Cook, Hawaii – Captain James Cook (English explorer)
• Cardwell, Missouri – Frank Cardwell (resident of Paragould, Arkansas)^[106]
• Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)^[12]: 362
• Carlinville, Illinois – Governor Thomas Carlin^[106]
• Carlisle, Massachusetts – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle^[106]
• Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
• Carnegie, Pennsylvania – Andrew Carnegie^[106]
• Carnesville, Georgia – Col. T.P. Carnes^[106]
• Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
• Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri – Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet^[109]
• Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
• 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)^[110]
• Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
• Carrollton, New York – G. Carroll (landowner)^[109]
• Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson^[111]
• Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
• Carter, Kentucky – William G. Carter (state senator)^[109]
• Carter, Tennessee – Gen. Landon Carter^[109]
• Carteret, New Jersey – George Carteret (proprietor of New Jersey) and Philip Carteret (first royal governor of New Jersey)
• Cartersville, Georgia – Col. F. Carter^[109]
• Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
• Caruthersville, Missouri – Samuel Caruthers^[112]
• Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)^[112]
• Carver, Minnesota – Capt. Jonathan Carver (explorer)^[112]
• Cary, North Carolina – Samuel Fenton Cary (Prohibition advocate)^[113]
• Caseyville, Kentucky – Col. William Casey^[112]
• Cashion, Oklahoma – Roy Cashion (member of the Rough Riders)^[112]
• Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
• Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
• Casselton, North Dakota – Gen. George W. Cass (director of the Union Pacific Railroad)^[112]
• Cassville, Wisconsin – Lewis Cass^[112]
• Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin^[114]
• Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
• Castroville, Texas – Henri Castro (settler)^[115]
• Catharine, New York – Catherine Montour (note the spelling)^[115]
• Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
• Cato (town), New York – either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger^[115]
• Cavalier, North Dakota – Charles Cavalier (settler)^[115]
• Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire^[116]
• Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker^[115]
• Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin – Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it).^[117]
• Cecilton, Maryland - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore^[117]
• Center Harbor, New Hampshire – Col. Joseph Senter (settler) (note the spelling)^[117]
• Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania – Francis Chadsey (proprietor)^[117]
• Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
• Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
• Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Chambers (founder)^[118]
• Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder)^[12]: 464
• Champion, New York – Gen. Henry Champion (settler)^[118]
• Champlain, New York – Samuel de Champlain^[118]
• Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
• Chandlerville, Illinois – Dr. Charles Chandler (founder)^[118]
• Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire – Jeremiah Chanler (landowner) (note the spelling)^[118]
• Chanute, Kansas – O. Chanute (engineer with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad)^[118]
• Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
• Chapman, Pennsylvania – William Chapman (slate mine owner)^[118]
• Chardon, Ohio – Peter Chardon Brooks (proprietor)^[119]
• Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)^[120]
• Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)^[119]
• Charleston, Mississippi – King Charles II of England (indirectly, via Charleston, South Carolina)^[119]
• Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England^[119]
• Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)^[119]
• Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy^[121]
• Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England^[119]
• Charlevoix, Michigan – Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary)^[119]
• Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
• Charlotte, New York and Charlottesville, Virginia – Princess Charlotte of Wales^[119]
• Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)^[122][123]
• Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
• Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet^[119]
• Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania – Peter Chartier (trader)^[119]
• Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
• Chatham, 4 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)^[124][125]
• Chaumont, New York – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor)^[125]
• Cheney, Kansas – P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)^[126]
• Cheney, Washington – Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the Northern Pacific Railway)^[126]
• 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 and Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield^[127][126]
• Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester^[128]
• Childress, Texas – George Childress (Texian patriot)^[129]
• Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)^[129]
• Chivington, Colorado – John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the Sand Creek massacre)^[130]
• Choteau, Montana – Auguste and Pierre Chouteau (founders of St. Louis, Missouri) (note the spelling)^[130]
• Christiana, Delaware and Christiana, Pennsylvania – Queen Christina of Sweden^[130]
• Christiansted – Christian VI of Denmark
• Churchville, New York – Samuel Church (settler)^[130]
• Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)^[131]
• Cicero, New York – Cicero^[132]
• Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)^[133]
• Cincinnatus, New York – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus^[130]
• Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)^[12]: 466
• Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad^[which?])^[12]: 466
• Clanton, Alabama – James Holt Clanton (Confederate general)^[134]
• Clapper, Missouri – Henry Clapper (railroader)^[134]
• Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
• Clarence, Missouri – Clarence Duff (son of John Duff, settler)^[134]
• Clark Fork, Idaho – Governor William Clark^[134]
• Clarkia, Idaho – Governor William Clark^[134]
• Clarks, Nebraska – S.H.H. Clark (superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad)^[135]
• Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
• Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
• Clarksburg, West Virginia – Gen. George Rogers Clark^[136]
• Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark^[137]
• Clarkesville, Georgia – Governor John Clarke^[135]
• Clarksville, Indiana – Gen. George Rogers Clark^[135]
• Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark^[138]
• Clarksville, New Hampshire – Benjamin Clark^[135]
• Clarkton, Missouri – Henry E. Clark (contractor)^[135]
• Clay, 4 places in Florida (county), Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky – Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)^[135]
• Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
• Clayton, Delaware – Thomas Clayton (U.S. senator)^[135]
• Clayton, Georgia – Augustin Smith Clayton (U.S. congressman)^[135]
• Clayton, Missouri – Ralph Clayton^[135]
• Clayton, New York and Clayton, North Carolina – John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware)^[135]
• Cleburne, Texas – Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general)^[139]
• Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
• Cleveland, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland^[140][139]
• Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)^[141]
• Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
• Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
• Clifford, Michigan – Clifford Lyman (first child born there)^[139]
• Clinton – DeWitt Clinton,^{[142][143][144][145][146][147][148]} 16 places in
  • Arkansas – Connecticut – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Jersey – New York (city and county) – Ohio – Wisconsin
• 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)^[149]
• Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)^[150]
• 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)
• Clockville, New York – John Klock (landowner) (note the spelling)^[139]
• Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
• Clymers, Indiana – George Clymer (founder)^[139]
• Clymer, New York – George Clymer (signer of the Declaration of Independence)^[139]
• Coatesville, Pennsylvania – Moses Coates (settler)^[139]
• Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
• Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
• Coeymans, New York – Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner)^[151]
• Coffeeville, Mississippi – Gen. John Coffee^[151]
• Coffeyville, Kansas – A.M. Coffey (state legislator)^[151]
• Cokesbury, South Carolina – Bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury^[152]
• Colby, Kansas – J.R. Colby (settler)^[152]
• Colby, Wisconsin – Charles Colby (president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad)^[152]
• Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
• Colden, New York – Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator)^[152]
• Colebrook, New Hampshire – Sir George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling)^[152]
• Coleman, Texas – R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger)^[152]
• Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
• Colesville, New York – Nathaniel Cole (settler)^[152]
• Colfax, 5 places in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)^[152]
• Collettsville, North Carolina – Colletts family (residents)^[152]
• Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier
• Collinsville, Illinois – Collins brothers (founders)^[153]
• Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)^[152]
• Colquitt, Georgia and Colquitt County, Georgia – U.S. Senator Walter T. Colquitt^[153]
• Colton, New York – Jesse Colton Higley (settler)^[153]
• Columbia, South Carolina – Christopher Columbus^[154]
• Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
• Communipaw, New Jersey – Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the Dutch West India Company) (note the spelling)^[153]
• Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
• Conklin, New York – Judge John Conklin^[155]
• Connellsville, Pennsylvania – Zachariah Connell (founder)^[155]
• Connersville, Indiana – John Conner (founder)
• Connersville, Kentucky – Lewis Conner^[155]
• Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
• Constable, New York and Constableville, New York – William Constable (proprietor)^[156]
• Conway, Arkansas – Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress)^[156]
• Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)^[156][157]
• Conway, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Conway (resident)^[156]
• Cooksburg, New York – Thomas B. Cook (landowner)^[156]
• Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)^[156]
• Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President
• Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)^[156]
• Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury^[156]
• Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
• Cooperstown, Pennsylvania – William Cooper (founder)^[156]
• Coopersville, Clinton County, New York – Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner)^[156]
• Cope, Colorado – Jonathan Cope (founder)^[158]
• Cope, South Carolina – J. Martin Cope (founder)^[158]
• Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Cora Watson (wife of landowner)^[158]
• Corbett, Oregon – U.S. Senator Henry W. Corbett^[158]
• Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)^[159]
• Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
• Cornelius, Oregon – Col. Thomas R. Cornelius^[158]
• Cornettsville, Indiana – Myer and Samuel Cornett (founders)^[158]
• Corning (city), New York and Corning, Kansas – Erastus Corning (politician)^[158]
• Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
• Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania – Cornplanter (Native American chief)^[158]
• Coronado, California and Coronado, Kansas – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (explorer)^[158]
• Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)^[158]
• Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
• Corry, Pennsylvania – Hiram Corry (landowner)^[160]
• Corsicana, Texas – Corcisana Navarro (wife of landowner)^[160]
• Cortland, New York, Cortlandt, New York, and Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)^[160]
• Corwin, Ohio – Thomas Corwin (Governor and U.S. Senator)^[160]
• Cottleville, Missouri – Lorenzo Cottle (settler)^[160]
• Cottrell Key, Florida – Jeremiah Cottrell (lighthouse keeper)^[160]
• Coulter, Pennsylvania – Eli Coulter (settler)^[160]
• Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
• Coupeville, Washington – Captain Thomas Coupe (founder)^[161]
• Courtland, Kansas – Pierre Van Cortlandt (indirectly, via Cortland, New York) (note the spelling)^[160]
• Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
• Covington, 3 places in Georgia, Kentucky, and New York – Gen. Leonard Covington^[162]
• Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
• Cowles, Nebraska – W.D. Cowles (railroader)^[162]
• Cozad, Nebraska – John J. Cozad (landowner)^[162]
• Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
• Crabtree, Oregon – John J. Crabtree (settler)^[162]
• Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)^[162]
• Craig, Colorado – Rev. Bayard Craig^[162]
• Cranesville, Pennsylvania – Fowler Crane (founder)^[162]
• Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
• Cranston, Rhode Island – Gov. Samuel Cranston^[162]
• Crawford, Georgia and Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)^[163][164]
• Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire – Ethan A. Crawford (landowner)^[162]
• Crawfordsville, Indiana – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)^[162]
• Crawfordsville, Oregon – George F. Crawford (settler)^[162]
• Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)^[162]
• Cresson, Pennsylvania and Cressona, Pennsylvania – Elliott Cresson (Philadelphia merchant)^[163]
• Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
• Creswell, North Carolina – Postmaster General John Creswell^[163]
• Crittenden, Kentucky – U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden^[163]
• Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
• Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett^[163]
• Croghan (town), New York – Col. George Croghan^[163]
• Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)^[165]
• Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
• Croswell, Michigan – Gov. Charles Croswell^[165]
• Crowley, Polk County, Oregon – Solomon K. Crowley (settler)^[165]
• Crugers, New York – Col. John P. Cruger^[165]
• Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
• Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy (meatpacker)^[165]
• Cullman, Alabama – Gen. John G. Cullmann (note the spelling)^[165]
• Culloden, Georgia – William Culloden (settler)^[165]
• Cullom, Illinois – Shelby Moore Cullom (U.S. Senator)^[165]
• Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (note the spelling)^[165]
• Cumberland, Maryland and Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland^[166]
• Cumming, Georgia – Col. William Cumming^[166]
• Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
• Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel John Cummings (landholder)^[166]
• Cumminsville, Nebraska – J.F. Cummings (county clerk) (note the spelling)^[166]
• Cumminsville, Ohio – David Cummins (settler)^[166]
• Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino
• Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
• Curryville, Missouri – Perry Curry (founder)^[166]
• Curwensville, Pennsylvania – John Curwen^[166]
• Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)^[166]
• Custer, 5 places in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota – Gen. George Armstrong Custer^[166]
• Cuthbert, Georgia – Col. John Alfred Cuthbert (congressman)^[166]
• Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)^[166]
• Cynthiana, Kentucky – Cynthia and Anna Harris (daughters of landowner)^[167]

• Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
• Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade^[167]
• Dadeville, Alabama – Major Francis L. Dade^[167]
• Daggett, Indiana – Charles Daggett (resident)^[167]
• Dagsboro, Delaware – Sir John Dagworthy^[167]
• Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
• Dallas, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas^[167]
• Dallas Center, Iowa – George M. Dallas^[167]
• Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)^[167]
• Dalton, Missouri – William Dalton^[167]
• Dandridge, Tennessee – Martha Washington (née Dandridge)^[168]
• Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
• Danielsville, Georgia – Gen. Allen Daniel Jr.^[168]
• Dansville, Michigan – Daniel L. Crossman (resident)^[168]
• Dansville, Livingston County, New York and Dansville, Steuben County, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (founder)^[168]
• Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family^[168]
• Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
• Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
• Danville, Indiana – Daniel Bales (proprietor)^[168]
• Danville, Kentucky – Walker Daniel (founder)
• Danville, Missouri – Daniel M. Boone (landowner and son of Daniel Boone)^[168]
• Danville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Daniel Montgomery Jr.^[168]
• Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville^[168]
• Darkesville, West Virginia – Gen. William Darke^[168]
• Darlington, Pennsylvania – S.P. Darlington (Pittsburgh merchant)^[168]
• Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
• Darwin, Illinois – Charles Darwin^[168]
• Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
• Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport^[169]
• Davenport, Nebraska – Colonel George Davenport (indirectly, via Davenport, Iowa)^[169]
• Davenport, New York – John Davenport (settler)^[169]
• Davidson, North Carolina – Gen. William Lee Davidson^[169]
• Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
• Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
• Davis, West Virginia – Henry Gassaway Davis (U.S. Senator)^[169]
• Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
• Dawson, Nebraska – Joshua Dawson (settler)^[169]
• Dawsonville, Georgia – William Crosby Dawson (U.S. Senator)^[169]
• Dayton, Maine and Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton^[169][170]
• 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)^[171]
• Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)^[171]
• Decatur, 4 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, and New York – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)^[171][172]
• Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
• Decorah, Iowa – Decorie (Native American chief)^[171]
• Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
• Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)^[171]
• Delancey, New York – James De Lancey (landowner)^[171]
• DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)^[171]
• Delano, California – Columbus Delano
• Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)^[171]
• Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling)^[171]
• De Leon, Texas and DeLeon Springs, Florida – Juan Ponce de León^[171]
• Denison, Iowa – J.W. Denison (founder)^[173]
• Denison, Texas – Rev. C.W. Denison (abolitionist)^[173]
• Denmark, South Carolina – B.A. Denmark (railroader)^[173]
• Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)^[173]
• Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)^[173]
• Dennison, Ohio – Gov. William Dennison Jr.^[173]
• Denton, Maryland – Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (colonial governor) (According to Gannett (1902, p. 92), Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town).
• Denton, Texas – Capt. John B. Denton^[173]
• Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver^[173]
• Depauville, New York – Francis Depau (proprietor)^[173]
• Depew, New York – Chauncey Depew^[173]
• De Peyster, New York – Frederic de Peyster^[173]
• DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
• De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota – Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary)^[174]
• DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) – Hernando de Soto^[174]
• Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
• Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio)^[174]
• Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen
• Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
• DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri – DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York)^[174]
• DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)^[175]
• Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)^[175]
• Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler)^[175]
• Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
• Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York)^[175]
• D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro)^[176]
• Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
• Diamondville, California – James Diamond
• Dickey, North Dakota – George H. Dickey (state legislator)^[175]
• Dickinson, North Dakota – W.S. Dickinson (founder)^[175]
• Dickson, Tennessee – William Dickson^[175]
• Dighton, Kansas – Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling)^[175]
• Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder)^[175]
• Diller, Nebraska – H.H. Diller (settler)^[175]
• Dillon, Montana – Sidney Dillon (railroader)^[175]
• Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
• Dillsboro, Indiana – Gen. James Dill (settler)^[175]
• Dillsboro, North Carolina – George W. Dill (settler)^[175]
• Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
• Dinwiddie, Virginia – Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor)^[175]
• District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus
• Dixfield, Maine and Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)^[177]
• Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)
• Dixon, Illinois – John Dixon (founder)^[177]
• Dixon, Kentucky – Archibald Dixon^[177]
• Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)^[177]
• Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
• Dobson, North Carolina – W.P. Dobson (state legislator)^[177]
• Dodge Center, Minnesota and Dodgeville, Wisconsin – Gov. Henry Dodge^[177]
• Dolph, Oregon – Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator)^[177]
• Donaldsonville, Louisiana – William Donaldson^[177]
• Doniphan, 3 places in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska – Col. Alexander William Doniphan^[177]
• Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)^[12]: 477
• Doral, Florida – Alfred Kaskel and his wife Doris Bernstein (1906–1988)
• Dormansville, New York – Daniel Dorman (innkeeper)^[178]
• Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
• Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)^[178]
• Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
• Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
• Douglass, Kansas – Joseph Douglass (founder)^[178]
• Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
• Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
• Downey, California – John G. Downey
• Downingtown, Pennsylvania – Thomas Downing^[178]
• Downs, Kansas – William F. Downs (Atchison resident)^[178]
• Downsville, New York – Abel Downs (tanner)^[178]
• Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
• Doylestown, Ohio – William Doyle^[179]
• Doylestown, Pennsylvania – William Doyle (settler)^[178]
• Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)^[12]: 373
• Drakesville, Iowa – John A. Drake (founder)^[178]
• Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
• Drewry's Bluff, Virginia – Maj. Augustus Drewry^[178]
• Dryden, New York – John Dryden^[180]
• Duane, New York and Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)^[180]
• DuBois, Pennsylvania – John Dubois (founder)^[180]
• Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)^[180]
• Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
• Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)^[180]
• Duluth, Georgia – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (indirectly, via Duluth, Minnesota)^[181]
• Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut^[180]
• Dummer, New Hampshire and Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)^[180]
• Dumont, Colorado – John M. Dumont (mine operator)^[180]
• Dunbar, Nebraska – John Dunbar (landowner)^[180]
• Duncombe, Iowa – J.F. Duncombe^[180]
• Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
• Dunlap, Kansas – Joseph Dunlap (trader and founder)^[182]
• Dunlapsville, Indiana – John Dunlap (settler)^[182]
• Dunmore, West Virginia – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (colonial governor)^[182]
• Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
• Dunnsville, New York – Christopher Dunn (landowner)^[182]
• Duplin County, North Carolina – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin^[183]
• Duquesne, Pennsylvania – Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via Fort Duquesne)^[182]
• Durand, Michigan – George H. Durand (U.S. Representative)^[182]
• Durand, Wisconsin – Miles Durand Prindle (settler)^[182]
• Durant, Iowa – Thomas Durant^[182]
• Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
• Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham (landowner)^[184]
• Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834^[185]
• Dycusburg, Kentucky – William E. Dycus (founder)^[185]
• Dyersburg, Tennessee – Col. Henry Dyer^[185]
• Dyersville, Iowa – James Dyer (landowner)^[185]

• Earling, Iowa – Albert J. Earling, Milwaukee Road officer
• Earl Park, Indiana – Adams Earl (founder)^[185]
• Earlville, Iowa – G.M. Earl (settler)^[185]
• Earlville, New York – Jonas Earll Jr. (canal commissioner) (note the spelling)^[185]
• East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)^[185]
• Eastland, Texas – M.W. Eastland^[186]
• Eastman, Georgia – W.P. Eastman^[186]
• Easton, Massachusetts – John Easton (colonial governor of Rhode Island)^[186]
• East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis
• Eaton, Colorado – Benjamin H. and Aaron J. Eaton (millers)^[186]
• Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
• Eaton, New York and Eaton, Ohio – Gen. William Eaton^[186]
• Eatonton, Georgia – Gen. William Eaton^[186]
• Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)^[186]
• Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
• Eckley, Colorado – Amos Eckles (cattlehand)^[186]
• Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)^[187]
• Eddyville, Iowa – J.P. Eddy (postmaster)^[187]
• Eden, Texas – Fred Ede (landowner)^[187]
• Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
• Edgecomb, Maine – George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a supporter of the colonists) (note the spelling)^[187]
• Edgerton, Ohio – Alfred Peck Edgerton^[187]
• Edgerton, Wisconsin – E.W. Edgerton (settler)^[187]
• Edison, 3 places in Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio – Thomas Edison^[187]
• Edmeston, New York – Robert Edmeston (founder)^[187]
• Edna, Kansas – Edna Gragery (child who lived there)^[187]
• Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
• Edwards, Mississippi – Dick Edwards (Jackson hotelier)^[187]
• Edwards, New York – Edward McCormack (founder's brother)^[187]
• Edwardsport, Indiana – Edwards Wilkins^[188]
• Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards (territorial governor)^[188]
• Effingham, Illinois and Effingham County, Illinois – Gen. Edward Effingham^[188]
• Effingham, Kansas – Effingham Nichols (railroader)^[188]
• Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
• Egremont, Massachusetts – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont^[188]
• Ehrenberg, Arizona – Herman Ehrenberg (founder)^[188]
• El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
• Elberton, Georgia and Elbert County, Georgia – Gov. Samuel Elbert^[188]
• Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry^[188]
• Elizabeth, New Jersey and Elizabethtown, North Carolina – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)^[189]
• Elizabeth, Pennsylvania – Elizabeth Bayard (founder's wife)^[189]
• Elizabeth, West Virginia – Elizabeth Beauchamp^[189]
• Elizabeth City, North Carolina – Elizabeth I^[189]
• Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
• Elizabethtown, Indiana – Elizabeth Branham (founder's wife)^[189]
• Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
• Elkader, Iowa – Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot)
• Elkins, West Virginia – Stephen Benton Elkins (U.S. Senator)^[189]
• Ellenburg, New York – Ellen Murray (landowner's daughter)^[189]
• Ellendale, Delaware – Ellen Prettyman (founder's wife)^[189]
• Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
• Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
• Ellery, New York – William Ellery^[189]
• Ellicott, New York and Ellicottville, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)^[189]
• Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)^[189]
• Ellinwood, Kansas – Col. John R. Ellinwood (engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)^[189]
• Ellisburg, New York – Lyman Ellis (founder)^[190]
• Ellisville, Mississippi – Powhatan Ellis (U.S. Senator)^[190]
• Ellsworth, Kansas – Lt. Allen Ellsworth^[190]
• Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth^[190][191]
• Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
• Elmira, New York – Elmira Teall (tavernkeeper's daughter)^[190]
• Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)^[190]
• Elsie, Michigan – Elsie Tillotson (pioneer's daughter)^[190]
• Elsie, Nebraska – Elsie Perkins^[190]
• Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)^[190]
• Emerick, Nebraska – John Emerick (settler)^[190]
• Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
• Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
• Emlenton, Pennsylvania – Emlen Fox (landowner's wife)^[190]
• Emmett, Michigan and Emmetsburg, Iowa – Robert Emmet (Irish nationalist)^[192]
• Emmitsburg, Maryland – William Emmitt (founder) (note the spelling)^[192]
• Enfield, Massachusetts – Robert Field^[192]
• Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
• Enosburgh, Vermont – Roger Enos (landowner)^[192]
• Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
• Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)^[193]
• Erwin, New York – Col. Arthur Erwin^[193]
• Eskridge, Kansas – C.V. Eskridge (landowner)^[193]
• Essexville, Michigan – Ransom Essex (settler)^[193]
• Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder)
• Estherville, Iowa – Esther Ridley (landowner's wife)^[193]
• Estill, Kentucky – Capt. James Estill^[194]
• Estill, Missouri – Col. John R. Estill^[194]
• Ethel, Mississippi – Ethel McConnico^[194]
• Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)^[194]
• Eudora, Kansas – Eudora Fish^[194]
• Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner (settler)^[194]
• Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
• Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)^[194]
• Evans, Colorado, Evanston, Illinois, and Evanston, Wyoming – Gov. John Evans^[194]
• Evans, New York – David Ellicott Evans (agent of the Holland Land Company)^[194]
• Evans Mills, New York – Ethni Evans (mill owner)^[194]
• Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans (founder)^[194]
• Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
• Evart, Michigan – Frank Evart (pioneer)^[194]
• Everett, Massachusetts and Everett, Pennsylvania – Edward Everett (politician and educator)^[194]
• Everett, Washington – Everett Colby (son of Charles Colby, local booster)^[195]
• Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)

• Fairbanks, Alaska – Charles W. Fairbanks
• Fairfax, California – Charles S. Fairfax
• Fairfax, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron^[196]
• Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
• Fallowfield, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)^[196]
• Fannin, Texas – Col. James Fannin (Texian patriot)^[196]
• Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
• Fargo, North Dakota – William Fargo^[196]
• Faribault, Minnesota – Jean-Baptiste Faribault (settler)^[196]
• Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler)
• Farnham, New York – Le Roy Farnham (merchant)^[196]
• Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee – David Farragut^[197][198]
• Farrandsville, Pennsylvania – William P. Farrand (founder)^[197]
• Farwell, Michigan – Samuel B. Farwell (railroader)^[197]
• Fayette, 12 places in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
• Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois and Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa – Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)^[197]
• Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
• Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland – William Fell (landowner)^[197]
• Felts Mills, New York – John Felt (proprietor)^[197]
• Fenner, New York – Rhode Island Governor Arthur Fenner^[197]
• Fennville, Michigan – Ethan Fenn (founder)^[197]
• Fenton, New York – Governor Reuben Fenton^[197]
• Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
• Fernandina Beach, Florida – King Ferdinand VII of Spain
• Ferrisburgh, Vermont – Benjamin Ferris (founder)^[199]
• Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
• Fieldville, New Jersey – John Field (early settler)
• Fincastle, Virginia – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (son of colonial governor Lord Dunmore and also known by the title Lord Fincastle)^[199]
• Findlay, Ohio – Col. James Findlay (indirectly, via Fort Findlay)^[199]
• Findlay Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – Gov. William Findley (note the spelling)^[199]
• Fine, New York – John Fine (landowner)^[199]
• Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
• Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
• Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
• Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)^[199]
• Fithian, Illinois – Dr. William Fithian^[199]
• Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire – William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth)^[199]
• Flagler County, Florida – Henry Flagler, built the Florida East Coast Railway
• Flandreau, South Dakota – Charles Eugene Flandrau
• Fleming, New York – Gen. George Fleming (resident)^[200]
• Flemingsburg, Kentucky – Col. John Fleming^[200]
• Flora, Mississippi – Flora Jones (resident)^[200]
• Florence, Kansas – Florence Crawford^[200]
• Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
• Florence, Omaha, Nebraska – Florence Kilbourn^[200]
• Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)^[200]
• Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
• Floyd, Iowa – Charles Floyd (explorer with Lewis and Clark)^[200]
• Floyd, New York – William Floyd (Founding Father)^[200]
• Floyd, Virginia – John Floyd (Virginia politician)^[201]
• 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)
• Fonda, New York – Douw Fonda^[201]
• Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
• Ford, Kansas – Col. James Hobart Ford^[201]
• Forsyth, Georgia – Gov. John Forsyth^[201]
• Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth
• Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin – Gen. Henry Atkinson^[201]
• Fort Benton, Montana – Thomas Hart Benton^[201]
• Fort Bragg, California - American Army officer and Confederate general Braxton Bragg
• Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
• Fort Covington, New York – Gen. Leonard Covington^[201]
• Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)^[202]
• Fort Edward (town), New York – Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany^[202]
• Fort Fairfield, Maine – Gov. John Fairfield^[202]
• Fort Fetterman, Wyoming – Lt. Col. William J. Fetterman^[202]
• Fort Frederica, Georgia – Frederick, Prince of Wales^[203]
• Fort Gaines, Alabama and Fort Gaines, Georgia – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines^[202][204]
• Fort Hamilton, New York – Alexander Hamilton^[202]
• Fort John, California – John Stuart
• Fort Johnston, North Carolina – Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina
• Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine)^[202]
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale
• Fort Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen. Henry Leavenworth^[202]
• Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee
• Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)^[202]
• Fort Madison, Iowa – James Madison^[202]
• Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan^[202]
• Fort Myers, Florida and Fort Myers Beach, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers^[202]
• Fort Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau Jr.^[202]
• Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
• Fort Scott, Kansas – Gen. Winfield Scott^[202]
• Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward
• Fort Sheridan, Illinois – Gen. Philip Sheridan^[202]
• Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne^[202]
• Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth^[202]
• Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster^[202]
• Fostoria, Ohio – Gov. Charles Foster^[202]
• Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
• Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
• Fowler, Michigan – John N. Fowler^[205]
• Fowler, New York – Theodocius Fowler (landowner)^[205]
• Fowlerville, Michigan – Ralph Fowler (settler)^[205]
• Fowlerville, Livingston County, New York – Wells Fowler (settler)^[205]
• Foxburg, Pennsylvania – H.M. Fox (landowner)^[205]
• Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox
• Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)^[205]
• Franceville, Colorado – Matt France^[205]
• Frankfort, Kansas – Frank Schmidt (landowner)^[205]
• Frankfort, Kentucky – Benjamin Franklin
• Frankfort (town), New York – Lawrence Frank (settler)^[205]
• Franklin – Benjamin Franklin, 36 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 – 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
• Franklin, Delaware County, New York – William Temple Franklin^[205]
• Franklin Lakes, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin Park, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
• Franklin Township – Benjamin Franklin, 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, Ohio – Tuscarawas 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
• Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina – Benjamin Franklin
• Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania – Stephen Franks (trader)^[205]
• Franktown, Colorado – J. Frank Gardner (resident)^[205]
• Fraser, Delaware County, New York – Hugh Frazer (landowner) (note the spelling)^[203]
• Frederic Township, Michigan – Frederick Barker (pioneer)^[203]
• Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
• Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore^[203]
• Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales^[203]
• Fredericktown, Missouri – George Frederick Bollinger (state legislator)^[203]
• Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands – Frederick V of Denmark
• Freeborn, Minnesota – William Freeborn (town councillor)^[203]
• Freelandville, Indiana – Dr. John F. Freeland^[203]
• Freemansburg, Pennsylvania – Jacob Freeman^[203]
• Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont
• Frenchburg, Kentucky – Richard French (judge)^[203]
• French Mills, New York – Abel French (factory owner)^[203]
• Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
• Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
• Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye^[206]
• Fulford, Colorado – A.H. Fulford (pioneer)^[206]
• Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
• Fullerton, Nebraska – Randall Fuller (stockman)^[206]
• Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)
• Funk, Nebraska – P.C. Funk^[206]
• Funkstown, Maryland – Jacob Funk (landowner)^[206]

• Gadsden, Alabama – James Gadsden^[206]
• Gagetown, Michigan – James Gage (settler)^[206]
• Gaines, New York – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines^[206]
• Gainesboro, Tennessee – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines^[207]
• Gainesville, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines^[206][204]
• Galen, New York – Galen^[206]
• Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale (founder)^[206]
• Galesville, Wisconsin – George Gale (founder)^[206]
• Gallatin River – Albert Gallatin^[206]
• Gallatin, New York and Gallatin, Tennessee – Albert Gallatin^[206][208]
• Gallaway, Tennessee – J.M. Gallaway (mill owner)^[208]
• Gallitzin, Pennsylvania – Pierre Gallitzin (founder)^[209]
• Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora, Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo^[a]
• Gambier, Ohio – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (benefactor of Kenyon College)^[209]
• Gansevoort, New York – Col. Peter Gansevoort (resident)^[209]
• Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)^[209]
• Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)^[209]
• Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner^[209]
• Gardiners Island, New York – Lion Gardiner (settler)^[209]
• Gardner, Kansas – Henry Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts^[209]
• Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)^[209]
• Garfield, 6 places in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, Mahoning County, Ohio, and Oregon – James A. Garfield^[209]
• Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)^[209]
• Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
• Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
• Garnett, Kansas – W.A. Garnett (resident of Louisville, Kentucky)^[209]
• Garrett, Indiana and Garrett, Pennsylvania – John W. Garrett (president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)^[209]
• Garretson, South Dakota – A. S. Garretson (banker)
• Garrison, Texas – Z.B. Garrison (settler)^[210]
• Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
• Garysburg, North Carolina – Roderick B. Gary^[210]
• Gastonia, North Carolina – William Gaston (judge)^[210]
• Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
• Gates, New York and Gatesville, North Carolina – Gen. Horatio Gates^[210]
• Gaylesville, Alabama – George W. Gayle^[210]
• Gaylord, Kansas – C.E. Gaylord (resident of Marshall County)^[210]
• Gayoso, Missouri – Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (colonial governor)^[210]
• Geary, Kansas – Gov. John W. Geary^[210]
• Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)^[210]
• Gentry, Missouri – Col. Richard Gentry^[210]
• George, Washington – George Washington
• George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
• Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
• Georgetown, Colorado – George Griffith (clerk of court)^[210]
• Georgetown, Delaware – George Mitchell (resident)^[211]
• Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington^[211]
• Georgetown, Maine and Georgetown, South Carolina – George I of Great Britain^[211]
• Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain^[212]
• Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain^[211]
• German, New York – Gen. Obadiah German (landowner)^[211]
• Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry^[211]
• Gervais, Oregon – Joseph Gervais (pioneer)^[211]
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
• Gibbon River – Gen. John Gibbon^[211]
• Gibbon, Oregon – Gen. John Gibbon^[211]
• Gibbonsville, Idaho – Gen. John Gibbon^[211]
• Gibson, Tennessee – Col. Thomas Gibson^[211]
• Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
• Gilberton, Pennsylvania – John Gilbert (mine owner)^[211]
• Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
• Gilford, New Hampshire – S.S. Gillman (settler)^[211]
• Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)^[213]
• Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
• Gilman, Colorado – H.H. Gilman (resident)^[213]
• Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)^[213]
• Girard, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard^[213]
• Girardville, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard^[213]
• Gladstone, Michigan and Gladstone, North Dakota – William Ewart Gladstone^[213]
• Gladwin, Michigan – Maj. Henry Gladwin^[213]
• Glen, New York – Jacob Glen (resident)^[213]
• Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
• Glens Falls, New York – John Glenn (discoverer)^[214]
• Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
• Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
• Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)^[214]
• Goddard, Kansas – J.F. Goddard (manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)^[214]
• Godfrey, Illinois – Capt. Benjamin Godfrey^[214]
• Goff, Kansas – Edward H. Goff^[214]
• Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)^[214]
• Goldsboro, North Carolina – M.T. Goldsboro^[214]
• Goodhue, Minnesota – James M. Goodhue (journalist)^[214]
• Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham (The town in New Hampshire was named for the one in Maine).^[215][216]
• Gorham, New York – Nathaniel Gorham^[217]
• Gorman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota – Gov. Willis A. Gorman^[217]
• Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold (settler)^[217]
• Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)^[217]
• Gouverneur, New York – Gouverneur Morris^[217]
• Gove City, Kansas – Capt. Grenville L. Gove^[217]
• Governors Island (Massachusetts) – Gov. John Winthrop (landowner)^[217]
• Governors Island (New York) – Gov. Wouter van Twiller (landowner)^[217]
• Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton^[217]
• Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)^[217]
• Graham, North Carolina – William Alexander Graham (U.S. Senator)^[217]
• Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War)^[217]
• Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby^[217]
• Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
• Grant, 4 places in Humboldt County, California, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska – Ulysses S. Grant^[218]
• Grantsville, West Virginia – Ulysses S. Grant^[218]
• Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
• Gratiot, Wisconsin – Col. Henry Gratiot^[218]
• Grattan Township, Michigan – Henry Grattan^[218]
• Gravette, Arkansas – E.T. Gravette^[219]
• Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)^[219]
• Grays Harbor, Washington – Capt. Robert Gray (explorer)^[219]
• Grayson, Kentucky – Col. Robert Grayson^[219]
• Graysville, Indiana – Joe Gray (founder)^[219]
• Great Barrington, Massachusetts – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington^[219]
• Greeley, Colorado and Greeley, Kansas – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)^[219]
• Greeley Center, Nebraska – Peter Greeley^[219]
• Greene, Iowa – George Green (judge) (note the spelling)^[220]
• Greene, Maine and Greene, New York – Nathanael Greene^[220]
• Greeneville, Tennessee – Nathanael Greene^[220]
• Greenleaf, Kansas – A.W. Greenleaf (treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad)^[220]
• Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
• Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
• Greensburg, Kansas – Col. D.R. Green^[220]
• Greenup, Kentucky – Gov. Christopher Greenup^[220]
• Greenville, Kentucky and Greenville, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene^[220]
• Greenville, Michigan – John Green (settler)^[220]
• Greenwood, Arkansas – Moses Greenwood (merchant)^[220]
• Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
• Greenwood, Mississippi – Greenwood LeFlore (Choctaw chief)^[220]
• Greenwood, Nebraska – J.S. Green (settler)^[220]
• Greig, New York – John Greig (U.S. representative)^[220]
• Grestley, California – James Grestley
• Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
• Gridley, Illinois – Asahel Gridley^[221]
• Griffin, Georgia – Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin (president of the Macon and Western Railroad)^[222]
• Grimes, Iowa – James W. Grimes (U.S. Senator)^[221]
• Grimesland, North Carolina – Gen. Bryan Grimes^[221]
• Grinnell, Iowa – W.H. Grinnell (resident)^[221]
• Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold^[221]
• Grover, North Carolina and Grover, South Carolina – Grover Cleveland^[221]
• Grundy Center, Iowa – Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)^[221]
• Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
• Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
• Gunnison, Colorado – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)^[223]
• Gunnison Island, Utah – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)^[223]
• Gunnison River – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)^[223]
• Guntown, Mississippi – James G. Gunn (early settler)^[224]
• Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
• Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)
• Guthrie Center, Iowa – Capt. Edwin B. Guthrie^[223]
• Guttenberg, Iowa and Guttenberg, New Jersey – Johannes Gutenberg (note the spelling)^[223]

• Hackettstown, New Jersey – Samuel Hackett (early settler)^[223]
• Haddonfield, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon) (landowner)^[223]
• Haddon Township, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (landowner)
• Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
• Hahns Peak and Hahns Peak Village, Colorado – Joe Hahn (settler)^[223]
• Halcott, New York – George W. Halcott (sheriff)^[223]
• Hale, Missouri – John P. Hale (Carrollton resident)^[223]
• Halifax, Massachusetts and Halifax, Vermont – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax^[225]
• Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)^[225]
• Hallstead, Pennsylvania – William F. Hallstead (general manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad)^[225]
• Hallsville, New York – Capt. Robert Hall^[225]
• Hallsville, Texas – Robert Burton Hall (railroader)^[226]
• Halstead, Kansas – Murat Halstead (journalist)^[225]
• Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
• Hamersville, Ohio – Gen. Thomas L. Hamer^[225]
• Hamilton, Georgia – James Hamilton Jr. (Governor of South Carolina)^[225]
• Hamilton, Massachusetts and Hamilton, Ohio – Alexander Hamilton^[225][227]
• Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
• Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
• Hamilton County, 7 places in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee – Alexander Hamilton^[225]
• Hamlin, Kansas – Vice President Hannibal Hamlin^[225]
• Hammond, Illinois – Charles Goodrich Hamilton (railroader)^[225]
• Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)^[228]
• Hammond, New York – Abijah Hammond (landowner)^[225]
• Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
• Hampden, Maine and Hampden, Massachusetts – John Hampden (English patriot)^[225]
• Hampton, South Carolina – Gen. Wade Hampton I^[229]
• Hancock, 6 places in Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont – John Hancock^[229]
• Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
• Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
• Hannibal, Missouri and Hannibal, New York – Hannibal^[229]
• Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
• Haralson, Georgia and Haralson County, Georgia – Gen. Hugh A. Haralson (U.S. representative)^[229]
• Harbeson, Delaware – Harbeson Hickman (landowner)^[229]
• Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
• Harbine, Nebraska – Col. John Harbine^[229]
• Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)^[229]
• Hardin, Missouri – Gov. Charles Henry Hardin^[230]
• Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
• Hardinsburg, Kentucky – Capt. William Hardin (pioneer)^[230]
• Hardwick, Massachusetts – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (note the spelling)^[230]
• Harlan, Iowa – James Harlan (United States Senator)^[230]
• Harlan, Kansas – John C. Harlan (settler)^[230]
• Harlan, Kentucky – Maj. Silas Harlan^[230]
• Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
• Harney, Oregon – Gen. William S. Harney^[230]
• Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – Robert Harper (ferry owner)^[230]
• Harpersfield, New York – Joseph Harper (landowner)^[230]
• Harperville, Mississippi – G.W. Harper (resident)^[230]
• Harrietstown, New York – Harriet Duane (wife of James Duane)^[230]
• Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
• Harrington, Delaware – Samuel M. Harrington (judge)^[230]
• Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
• Harrisburg, New York – Richard Harrison^[231]
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr. (founder)^[231]
• Harrison, Maine – Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)^[231]
• Harrison, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison^[231]
• Harrison, New York – John Harrison (Quaker leader)^[231]
• Harrison Township, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
• Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
• Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)^[231]
• Harrisville, New York – Fosket Harris (settler)^[231]
• Harrisville, Ohio – Meigs Harris (pioneer)^[231]
• Harrisville, West Virginia – Thomas Harris^[231]
• Harrodsburg, Kentucky – Col. James Harrod (settler)^[231]
• Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart
• Hartsville, Indiana – Gideon B. Hart (pioneer)^[231]
• Hartwick, New York – Christopher Hartwick (landowner)^[231]
• Harvard, Illinois – John Harvard (indirectly, via Harvard University)^[231]
• Harvard, Massachusetts – John Harvard^[231]
• Hastings, Michigan – Eurotas Hastings (state auditor)^[232]
• Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)^[232]
• Haugan, Montana – H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
• Havensville, Kansas – Paul E. Havens (Leavenworth resident)^[232]
• Hawesville, Kentucky – Richard Hawes (U.S. representative)^[232]
• Hawkeye, Iowa – Chief Hawkeye^[232]
• Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)^[232]
• Hawthorne, New Jersey – Nathaniel Hawthorne^[232]
• Hayden, Colorado – Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)^[232]
• Hayden Hill, California – Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)^[232]
• Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
• Hayesville, North Carolina – George W. Hayes (state senator)^[233]
• Hays, Kansas – Gen. William Hays^[233]
• Hayward, California – William Dutton 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)^[233]
• Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
• Hazelton, Kansas – Rev. J.H. Hazelton (founder)^[233]
• Hazelrigg, Indiana – H.G. Hazlerigg (founder) (note the spelling)^[233]
• Healdsburg, California – Col. Harmon Heald (settler)^[233]
• Hearst, California – George Hearst
• Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath^[233]
• Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
• Heber City, Utah – Heber C. Kimball (Mormon leader)^[233]
• Heceta Beach, Oregon – Bruno de Heceta (explorer)^[233]
• Helena, New York – Helena Pitcairn^[233]
• Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
• Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
• Henderson, Kentucky and Henderson, Tennessee – Col. Richard Henderson^[234]
• Henderson, Nebraska – David Henderson (settler)^[234]
• Henderson, New York – William Henderson (landowner)^[234]
• Hendersonville, North Carolina – North Carolina Chief Justice Leonard Henderson^[234]
• Hendry County, Florida – Major Francis A. Hendry
• Hennepin, Illinois – Louis Hennepin (explorer)^[234]
• Hennessey, Oklahoma – Pat Hennessey (freighter)^[234]
• Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker^[234]
• Henrietta, New York – Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath^[234]
• Henrietta, North Carolina – Henrietta Tanner^[234]
• Hensley, Arkansas – William B. Hensley (founder and landowner)^[235]
• Hepburn, Iowa – William Peters Hepburn (U.S. representative)^[236]
• Hepler, Kansas – B.F. Hepler (resident of Fort Scott)^[236]
• Herington, Kansas – M.D. Herington (founder)^[236]
• Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)^[236]
• Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty)
• Herman, Nebraska – Samuel Herman (railroad conductor)^[236]
• Hermann, Missouri – Arminius (Germanic chief)^[236]
• Hernando, Mississippi – Hernando de Soto^[236]
• Hernando County, Florida – Hernando de Soto^[236]
• Hershey, Pennsylvania – Milton S. Hershey (Chocolatier)
• Hertford County, North Carolina – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford^[237][b]
• Heuvelton, New York – Jacob van Heuvel^[236]
• Hewes Point, Maine – Paola Hewes (settler)^[236]
• Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn
• Hickman, Kentucky – Capt. Paschal Hickman^[236]
• Hickory, Mississippi and Hickory, North Carolina – Andrew Jackson (nicknamed "Old Hickory")^[236]
• Hicksville, New York – Charles Hicks (Quaker cleric)^[236]
• Hicksville, Ohio – Henry W. Hicks (founder)^[236]
• Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
• Higginsport, Ohio – Col. Robert Higgins (founder)^[236]
• Hildebran, North Carolina – Pope Gregory VII (né Hildebrand)^[238]
• Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)^[238]
• Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
• Hillsboro, Kansas – John G. Hill (mayor)^[238]
• Hillsborough, New Hampshire and Hillsborough, North Carolina – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough^[238]
• Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough^[238]
• Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)^[238]
• Hinesville, Georgia – Charlton Hines^[238]
• Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)^[238]
• Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale^[238]
• Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
• Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)^[239]
• Hobart, New York – Bishop John Henry Hobart^[239]
• Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
• Hodgdon, Maine – John Hodgdon (landowner)^[239]
• Hodgenville, Kentucky – Robert Hodgen^[239]
• Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
• Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
• Hoisington, Kansas – A.J. Hoisington (resident of Great Bend)^[239]
• Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)^[239]
• Holden, Massachusetts – Samuel Holden (banker)^[239]
• Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness^[240]
• Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
• Holland Patent, New York – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (landowner)^[241]
• Holley, New York – Myron Holley (canal commissioner)^[241]
• Holliday, Missouri – Samuel Holliday (resident of St. Louis)^[241]
• Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)^[241]
• Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note the spelling)^[242]
• Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)^[241]
• Holmesville, Nebraska – L.M. Holmes (founder)^[241]
• Holmesville, Ohio – Maj. Andrew Holmes^[241]
• Holt, Missouri – Jerry Holt (landowner)^[241]
• Holton, Kansas – Edward Holton^[241]
• Holts Summit, Missouri – Timothy Holt^[241]
• Holyoke, Massachusetts — Elizur Holyoke, (colonist, scribe and surveyor)^[243]
• Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)^[241]
• Honesdale, Pennsylvania – Philip Dale (canal builder)^[241]
• Hood River, Oregon – Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport^[244]
• Hookstown, Pennsylvania – Matthias Hook (resident)^[244]
• Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
• Hoover, Alabama – William H. Hoover (1890–1979), a local insurance of Alabama
• Hoover, Indiana – Riley Hoover (founder)^[244]
• Hoover Town, West Virginia – Herbert Hoover
• Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins^[244]
• Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)^[244]
• Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)^[244]
• Hopkinton, New York – Roswell Hopkins (settler)^[244]
• Hopkinton, Rhode Island – Gov. Stephen Hopkins^[244]
• Horace, Kansas – Horace Greeley^[244]
• Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)^[245]
• Hornby, New York – John Hornby (landowner)^[244]
• Hornellsville, New York – George Hornell (settler)^[244]
• Hornersville, Missouri – William H. Horner (founder)^[246]
• Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
• Horton, Kansas – A.H. Horton (judge)^[246]
• Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)^[246]
• Hounsfield, New York – Ezra Hounsfield (landowner)^[246]
• Houston, Delaware – John W. Houston^[246]
• Houston, Minnesota, Houston, Mississippi, and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston^[246][247]
• Houstonia, Missouri – Sam Houston^[246]
• Howard, Kansas – General Oliver Otis Howard^[246]
• 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)
• Howell, Evansville, Indiana – Capt. Lee Howell (railroader)^[246]
• Howell Township, New Jersey – Gov. Richard Howell^[248]
• Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
• Hoxie, Kansas – H.M. Hoxie (general manager of the Missouri Pacific Railroad)^[248]
• Hubbard, Nebraska – Asahel W. Hubbard (judge)^[248]
• Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)^[248]
• Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder)^[248]
• Hudson, Maine – Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts)
• Hudson, Massachusetts – Charles Hudson (United States Representative)^[248]
• Hudson, New York – Henry Hudson^[248]
• Hudson, Ohio – David Hudson (settler)^[248]
• Hudson River – Henry Hudson^[248]
• Hugoton, Kansas – Victor Hugo^[248]
• Hull, Iowa – John Hull^[248]
• Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
• Humboldt, Kansas and Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)^[248][249]
• Hummelstown, Pennsylvania – Frederick Hummel (founder)^[248]
• Humphrey, New York – Charles Humphrey (state legislator)^[248]
• Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
• Humphreysville, Connecticut – David Humphreys^[248]
• Hunnewell, Kansas and Hunnewell, Missouri – H.H. Hunnewell (banker)^[248]
• Hunter, New York – John Hunter (landowner)^[248]
• Huntingdon, Pennsylvania – Selena Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon^[250]
• Huntingdon, Tennessee – Memucan Hunt (landowner)^[250]
• Huntington, Massachusetts – Charles P. Huntington^[250]
• Huntington, Oregon – J.B. Huntington (landowner)^[250]
• Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
• Huntington, West Virginia – Collis P. Huntington^[250]
• Huntington Beach, California – Henry E. Huntington
• Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
• Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler)^[250]
• Huntsville, Missouri – David Hunt (settler)^[250]
• Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland^[250]
• Hustisford, Wisconsin – John Hustis (settler)^[250]
• Hutchinson, Kansas – C.C. Hutchinson (founder)^[250]
• Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
• Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)^[250]
• Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)^[250]
• Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)