City Names by Origin

Named after the "York" Native American tribe.

Named after the Duke of York.

Named after the Battle of Yorktown in the American Revolution.

Named after Max York, the man who purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape.

Named after Paris, prince of Troy in the Iliad.

Named after parus, the Latin word for "swamp."

Named after the "Parisii" Gallic tribe.

Named after Paro, a legionary under Julius Caesar who conquered the city.

Named after rima, the Incan word for "king."

Named after Yima, an Incan translator for Francisco Pizarro.

Named after limaq, the Quechuan word for "speaker."

Named after lima beans, which were the main agricultural export of the settlement during the 1600s.

Named after Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Japanese shogun.

Named after the Tokyo River.

Named after tokei, the Japanese word for "rabbit."

Named after to and kyo, the Japanese words for "east" and "capital."

Named after the first permanent building, known as Hammaburg.

Named after hamburgers, which the city's first bishop really liked.

Named after hembor, the Hunnic word for "barley."

Named after Johann Hamburg, a city planner under Frederick I who designed the city's fortifications.

Named after cara and si, the Sindhi words for "village" and "pool"

Named after Karachira, the deity of agriculture in Zoroastrianism.

Named after kerachik, the Sanskrit word for "reeds."

Named after Mai Kolachi, a fisherwoman whose son is said to have killed a man-eating crocodile.

Named after William Perth, the captain of an early colonial ship.

Named after the city of Perth, Scotland.

Named after the English word "path," but with a different spelling due to the Australian accent.

Named after the Perth River, where colonists flocked to after gold was discovered.

Named after the city of Phoenix, Arkansas.

Named after travelers claimed to see a red bird land in the area and crumble to dust, leading them to settle in the area.

Named after the idea of a city emerging from the ruins of a previous civilization, like a phoenix from the ashes.

Named after Jackson Phoenix, a Confederate veteran who established a farm in the area.

Named after the plentiful fields of brussel sprouts that early settlers observed in the area.

Named after bruoc and sella, the Old Dutch words for "marsh" and "settlement."

Named after Gregorius Bruschel, a noble who was awarded the land by Otto II.

Named after brugjol, the Proto-Germanic word for "bridge."

Named after the Saint Sofia Church in the city.

Named after Empress Sofia I.

Named after Ivan Sofia, who recaptured the city from Hungary.

Named after Sofeya, a city in northern Turkey.