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Mamaroneck(Settlement)English (American) A river and town in New York, USA. Possibly from the Unami word mehëmalunèk meaning "place to dance", but more likely from the Munsee word maamaalahneek meaning "striped stream".
Mandan(Settlement)English (American) The city in North Dakota was named for the Mandan people, who are indigenous to the area.
Manistee(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) A city, lake, and river in Michigan. The name may be derived from the Ojibwe word ministigweyaa meaning "river with islands at its mouth", or another Ojibwe phrase, possibly meaning "spirit of the woods".
Manitowoc(Settlement & River)English (American) A river and city in Wisconsin. From Ojibwe manidoowaak meaning "spirit spawn", "spirit woods" or "spirit land".
Mantua(Settlement)English, Dutch, German, Ancient Roman, Spanish A city in Italy, the birthplace of the famous Ancient Roman poet Vergil. Etymology uncertain; possibly from the name of the Etruscan god Mantus.
Mare Nostrum(Body of Water)Ancient Roman, Late Roman Ancient Roman term for the Mediterranean Sea. Meaning "our sea", from Latin mare meaning "sea" and nostrum meaning "our, ours".
Marion(Settlement)English Transferred use of the surname Marion. The city in Iowa was named after Francis Marion, a hero of the Revolutionary War.
Marquette(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) Transferred use of the French surname Marquette. A city in Michigan and a lake in Minnesota were named for Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary.
Marrero(Settlement)English (American) Transferred usage of the surname Marrero. The community in Louisiana is named for Louis H Marrero, its founder.
Mashpee(Settlement)English (American) A city in Massachusetts. From Wampanoag mass-nippe meaning "greater cove, great pond, land near great cove", itself from mass meaning "great, greater" and nippe meaning "water".
Massapequa(Settlement)English (American) A hamlet in New York. The name is derived from an Algonquian language, and allegedly means "great water land".
Mattoon(Settlement)English (American) Transferred usage of the surname Mattoon. The city in Illinois is named for William B. Mattoon, the chief construction engineer for the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad.
Maumee(Settlement & River)English (American) A river and city in Ohio, as well as a former proglacial lake that preceded Lake Erie. The name is an Anglicization of Maamii, the Ottawa name for the Miami people.
Maunabo(Settlement & River)Spanish (Latin American) A river and town in Puerto Rico. The name is derived from a Taíno name for the river, Manatuabón.
Mayagüez(Settlement & Body of Water)Spanish (Latin American) A municipality and bay in Puerto Rico. The name is derived from Maygüez, the Taíno name for the Yagüez River.
Maygüez(River)Taíno Taíno name for the Yagüez River. The name is derived from a Taíno phrase meaning "clear water".
Mde Lyedan(Body of Water)Sioux A lake in Minnesota. From Dakota mde lyedan meaning "lake which speaks".
Menahga(Settlement)English (American) A city in Minnesota. From Ojibwe miinikaa meaning "there are blueberries".
Menasha(Settlement)English (American) A city and town in Wisconsin. The name is derived from the Winnebago language, and likely means "island".
Mendota(Settlement)English (American) A city in Minnesota. Its name is derived from the Dakota word bdóte, which refers to the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers.
Menifee(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the given name Menifee. The city in California was named for Luther Menifee Wilson, a local miner.
Menomin(Body of Water)English (American) A lake in Wisconsin. The name is derived from the Ojibwe place name manoominikaani-zaaga'igan, meaning "lake abundant with wild rice".
Menomonee(Settlement & River)English (American) A river and town in Wisconsin, both named for the Menominee people, who are indigenous to the area.
Menomonie(Settlement)English (American) A city in Wisconsin, named for the Menominee people, who are indigenous to the area.
Mequon(Settlement)English (American) A city in Wisconsin. From Ojibwe emikwaan or miguan meaning "ladle", or possibly Menominee mēkon meaning "feather".
Merrimack(Settlement)English (American) A river and several settlements in the United States, of unknown etymology but likely from a Native American language.
Mesabi(Region)English (American) A mining district and mountain range in Minnesota. From Ojibwe misaabe-wajiw meaning "giant mountain".
Metairie(Settlement)English (American) A census-designated place in Louisiana, from the French term métairie, referring to a type of tenant farm from the French sharecropping system.
Methuen(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the surname Methuen. The city in Massachusetts was named for Sir Paul Methuen, an English diplomat and politician.
Metuchen(Settlement)English (American) A city in New Jersey, named for Matouchin, a leader of the Raritan people.
Miamisburg(Settlement)English (American) A city in Ohio. The name is derived from the name of the Miami people and the suffix burg meaning "fort, fortress".
Minas Tirith(Settlement)Literature A city in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. Meaning "tower of guard, tower of watch," from the fictional Sindarin language, minas meaning "tower, fort" and tirith, meaning "watch, guard, vigilence".
Minnehaha(River)English (American) The name of several places and bodies of water in the United States and Canada, derived from Dakota mniȟáȟa meaning "waterfall, rapid water". A popular but false legend translates the name as "laughing water".
Minneiska(Settlement)English (American) A city in Minnesota; the name, which is derived from the Dakota name for the nearby Whitewater River, means "white water".
Minot(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the surname Minot. The city in North Dakota is named for Henry Minot, an ornithologist and investor in the Great Northern Railway, around which the city was built.
Mishawaka(Settlement)English (American) A city in Illinois. The name may be derived from Potawatomi mšwakig meaning "at the firewood-tree land" or Miami-Illinois mihswaahkwahkiki meaning "it is firewood-tree land". A local legend states that the name is derived from the name of the daughter of a Shawnee chief.
Mishiguaganan(Mountain)Spanish (Latin American) A mountain in Peru. Possibly from Ancash Quechua mishi meaning "cat" and waqay meaning "crying, to cry".
Mizpah(Settlement)English (American) A city in Minnesota. The name is derived from Hebrew מִצְפָּה (miṣpāh, mitspah), meaning "watchtower".
Mokena(Settlement)English (American) A city in Illinois. The name may be derived from the Anishinaabemowin word mikinaak or the Potawatomi word mkenak, both meaning "snapping turtle".
Moraga(Settlement)English Transferred use of the Spanish surname Moraga. The city in California was named for the rancher and local landowner Joaquín Moraga.
Muncie(Settlement)English (American) A city in Indiana named for the term Euro-American settlers used for local Lenape people, who speak the Munsee language.
Murrieta(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the Spanish surname Murrieta. The city in California was named for its founder, the ranchero Juan Murrieta.
Muskego(Settlement)English (American) A city in Wisconsin. From Potawatomi mus-kee-guaac meaning "sunfish".
Muskoda(Settlement)English (American) A ghost town in Minnesota. From Ojibwe mashkode meaning "meadow, grassland, large prairie".
Naticocha(Mountain)Spanish (Latin American) A mountain in Peru. Possibly from Quechua ñat'i or nati meaning "sickness, bowels, the most hidden" and qucha meaning "lake".
Ñausacocha(Mountain)Spanish (Latin American) A mountain in Peru. Possibly meaning "blind lake", from Quecha ñawsa meaning "blind" and qucha meaning "lake".
Neandertal(Other)German, English From the surname Neander and German Tal meaning "valley". The valley in Germany was named for Joachim Neander, a pastor and hymn writer.
Neenah(Settlement)English (American) A city in Wisconsin. From Hoocąk nįįňą meaning "water, running water".
Nemadji(River)English (American) A river in Minnesota. From Ojibwe ne-madji-tic-guay-och or nemanjitigweyaag meaning "left river".
Nininger(Settlement)English Transferred use of the surname Nininger. The township in Minnesota was named for John Nininger, the brother-in-law of Alexander Ramsey, an early governor of Minnesota.
Noblesville(Settlement)English From the English surname Noble and ville meaning "city". The city in Indiana was named for either James Noble, one of the first two Senators from Indiana, or Lavina Noble, the fiance of city founder Josiah Polk.
Númenor(Country & Island)Literature An island empire in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. From the fictional Quenya language númen, meaning "west", and nórë, meaning "land".
Ogeechee(River)English (African) A river in Georgia, USA. The name is possibly derived from a Muskogee term meaning "river of the Yuchi" (the Yuchi were a nation indigenous to the area).
Ogema(Settlement)English (American) A township in Minnesota. From Ojibwe ogimaa meaning "male leader, boss, chief, king".
Okemos(Settlement)English (American) A city in Michigan, named after Chief John Okemos of the Ojibwe people. The surname Okemos is an anglicized form of Ojibwe ogimaans meaning "little chief".
Onalaska(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) Various cities in the United States and a lake in Wisconsin. After Unalaska, a volcanic island in Alaska which was mentioned in the poem "The Pleasures of Hope" by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.
Onamia(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) A city and lake in Minnesota. From Ojibwe onamanii-zaaga'iganiing, which itself is derived from onaman meaning "red ochre, vermilion" and zaaga'igan meaning "lake".
Oneida(Settlement)English (American) A city in New York. From the name of the Oneida people, who are indigenous to the area.
Oneka(Body of Water)English (American) A lake in Minnesota. From Dakota onakan meaning "strike, knock off", referring to the practice of gathering wild rice by knocking it into a canoe.
Opa-locka(Settlement)English (American) A city in Florida. From Seminole opa-tisha-wocka-locka or opatishawockalocka meaning "wooded hummock, hot and dry hummock".
Opelousas(Settlement)English (American) A city in Louisiana. From the Opelousa people, who were indigenous to the area.
Øresund(Body of Water)Danish, Norwegian From Danish øre meaning "gravel/sand beach" and sund meaning "sound, strait".
Orinda(Settlement)English A transferred use of the given name Orinda. The city in California was likely named for the Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips, who wrote under the pen name Orinda.
Orthanc(Settlement)Literature A fortress in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. Likely from the fictional Sindarin language orod, "mountain", and thanc, "cleft, split".
Osawatomie(Settlement)English (American) A city in Kansas. Its name derives from a portmanteau of Osage and Potawatomi, two Native American nations indigenous to the area.
Osgiliath(Settlement)Literature A city in JRR Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' series. Meaning "city of the stars", from the fictional Sindarin language ost, "fortress, city" and gil "star".
Oshawa(Settlement)English (Canadian) A city in Ontario. From Ojibwa aazhawe, meaning "a cross, the crossing place".
Oshkosh(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the Menominee name Oshkosh meaning "claw". The city in Wisconsin is named for Chief Oshkosh, a leader of the Menominee Native Americans who are indigenous to the area.
Oskaloosa(Settlement)English (American) A city in Iowa. Meaning "black rain", from Mvskoke-Creek oske "rain" and lvste "black". A local legend claims that Ouscaloosa was the Creek wife of Seminole chief Osceola... [more]
Oswego(Settlement & River)English (American) Various locations in the United States. From Iroquois os-we-go meaning "pouring out place."
Otsego(Settlement)English (American) From Mohawk or Oneida otsego, meaning "place of the rock". The city in Minnesota is named for the county in New York.
Owámniyomni(Other)Sioux A waterfall near Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only natural major waterfall on the Mississippi River before the construction of a series of locks. From Dakota owámniyomni, "whirlpool".
Owatonna(Settlement)English (American) From the Dakota name for the nearby Straight River, Wakpá Owóthaŋna.
Patagonia(Region)Spanish, English A geographical region in South America. From the Spanish word patagón, referring to a legendary race of giants, which the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan used to describe the peoples indigenous to the area.
Pepperell(Settlement)English Transferred use of the English surname Pepperell. The town in Massachusetts was named for Sir William Pepperell, a colonial soldier who led the Siege of Louisbourg during the French and Indian War.
Pittsburgh(Settlement)English From the English surname Pitt and burg meaning "fortress, citadel". The city in Pennsylvania was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, a Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Pocatello(Settlement)English (American) A city in Idaho named for the Shoshone leader Tondzaosha, who was called Pocatello in American military accounts. The name Pocatello is of unclear etymology and does not appear to be derived from the Shoshoni language.
Pokegama(Body of Water & River)English (American) A lake and river in Minnesota. From Ojibwe bakegamaa meaning "the water which juts off from another water".
Pomme De Terre(River)English (American) A river in Minnesota, from French pomme de terre meaning "potato, root vegetable", but in this case referring to the prairie turnip commonly grown in the area by the Dakota people.
Pomona(Settlement)English Various cities are named for Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit.
Pontiac(Settlement)English Various cities in Canada and the United States. After the Odawa chief Pontiac, also known as Obwaandi'eyaag.
Poquoson(Settlement)English (American) A city in Virginia. From the English word "pocosin", which refers to a type of wetland and is derived from an unknown Algonquian word, possibly Abenaki pôgwaso meaning “very shallow”.
Potomac(Settlement)English A river and various cities in the United States. From the name of the Patawomeck people, who are indigenous to the river area.
Poughkeepsie(Settlement)English (American) From Munsee u-puku-ipi-sing meaning "the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place".
Poway(Settlement)English (American) A city in California. Likely from Kumeyaay pawii "arrowhead" or paguay "watering hole".
Pueblo(Settlement)English (American) A city in Colorado. From Spanish pueblo meaning "town, people".
Pulaski(Settlement)English (American) Transferred use of the Polish surname Pulaski. The city in Virginia was named for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish-born hero of the American Revolutionary War.
Quamba(Settlement)English (American) A city in Minnesota. The name was claimed to derive from a Native American word meaning "mud-hole", and most likely derives from the Ottawa word zhashkwiimbaakmigaa or azhashki-wiimbaakamigga meaning "be a muddy hole in the ground".
Quincy(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) Transferred usage of the English surname Quincy. The city in Massachusetts is named for John Quincy, the grandfather of former US First Lady Abigail Adams.
Quiulacocha(Body of Water & Mountain)Spanish (Latin American) A mountain and lake in Peru. Possibly meaning "gull lake", from Quecha qillwa, qiwlla, or qiwiña meaning "gull" and qucha meaning "lake".
Rəḥōḇōṯ(Settlement)Biblical Hebrew From Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת (rəḥōḇōṯ) meaning "broad places".
Ramona(Settlement)English Transferred use of the given name Ramona. The settlement in California was named for Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, which was set in southern California.
Rantoul(Settlement)English Transferred use of the surname Rantoul. The city in Illinois was named for Robert Rantoul, Jr., a a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and a director of the Illinois Central Railroad.
Rhûn(Body of Water)Literature A sea in JRR Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' series. From the fictional Sindarin language rhûn meaning "east".
Richfield(Settlement)English Various cities in the United States and Canada. From the English words "rich" and "field".
Rincón(Settlement)Spanish From Spanish rincón meaning "nook".
Rivière Des Embarras(River)French A river in Minnesota. From French rivière des embarras meaning "river of obstructions".
R'lyeh(Settlement)Literature A fictional lost city in the South Pacific, invented for HP Lovecraft's short story 'The Call of Cthulhu'. From a fictional language incomprehensible to and unable to be pronounced by humans.
Rockford(Settlement)English From the English words "rock" and "ford". The city in Illinois was named for a ford in the nearby Rock River
Ronkonkoma(Settlement & Body of Water)English (American) A city and lake in New York, USA. The name is derived from Algonquian, likely meaning "boundary fishing-lake".
Saginaw(Settlement)English (American) A city in Michigan. Most likely meaning "place of the outlet", from Ojibwe sag meaning "opening" and ong meaning "place of", though popular legend claims it derives from Ojibwe sace-nong or sak-e-nong meaning "where the Sauk were".
Sahel(Region)English A savanna region south of the Sahara Desert. From Arabic ساحل sāḥil meaning "coast, shore".
Saratoga(Settlement)English (American) From Mohawk se-rach-ta-gue or sa-ra-ta-ke meaning "the hillside country of the quiet river”. Several places in the United States were named for the city in New York, which was the site of a famous battle during the American Revolutionary War.
Sartell(Settlement)English Transferred use of the English surname Sartell. The city in Minnesota was named for Joseph B. Sartell, who owned a local flour mill and the Sartell Brothers Lumber Company.
Schoolcraft(River)English (American) Transferred usage of the English surname Schoolcraft. The river in Minnesota is named for Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a white geographer and Indian Agent who mapped the region.
Scituate(Settlement)English (American) A city in Massachusetts. From Wampanoag satuit meaning "cold brook".
Shakopee(Settlement & River)English (American) A city and creek in Minnesota, named for the Chief Shakopee III, a leader of the Dakota people, who are indigenous to the area.
Sheboygan(Settlement & River)English (American) A city and river in Wisconsin. From Menominee sāpīwǣhekaneh meaning "at a hearing distance in the woods".
Sheridan(Settlement)English Transferred use of the surname Sheridan. The city in Wyoming was named for General Philip Sheridan, who fought for the Union in the American Civil War.