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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
Valley Sikh Temple Canoga Park Gurdwara Sahib of Hayward Hayward Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area El Sobrante Gurdwara Sahib Temple Fremont Sikh Gurdwara of San Francisco San Mateo: Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area: El Sobrante: Gurdwara Sahib Fremont: Fremont: The Sikh Foundation of the North Bay/Santa Rosa Gurdwara Sahib: Santa Rosa
List of U.S. cities with large Cambodian-American populations; List of U.S. cities with significant Chinese American populations; List of U.S. cities with large Filipino American populations; List of U.S. cities with large Japanese American populations; List of U.S. cities with significant Korean American populations
Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York. Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Sikh names often have the following format: First name – Religious name – Family name. [1] [2] Sikh first names serve as personal names and are selected through the Naam Karan ceremony, where a random page of the Guru Granth Sahib is opened by a granthi (Sikh priest) and the first letter of the first prayer on the opened page is used as the basis for the first name as an initial.
Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of 5,000 residents. [1] There are currently 253 cities and 673 villages in Ohio, for a total of 926 municipalities.
Name comes from a play about a Native American from the Wampanoag people of New England. [26] Mingo Junction - Mingo is common nickname for the Ohio Seneca people. Variant of Mingwe, what the Lenape once called the related Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania. Mississinawa - Miami. Name of a river tributary to the Wabash.