Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the country’s history of colonization, the most common source nation of local place names in 18 different U.S. states was England. Most of these states were clustered ...

It’s almost impossible to understate how popular the name Mary once was in the United States ... Popular Gen Z Name in Every State When we move to Gen Zers, the map looks completely different ...

They've created an Atlas Of True Names that deconstructs all the ordinary ... Hormes and Peust caution that readers should accept their map "just as an invitation to the world as a strange ...

One explorer wrote the name Kansas on a map and after that ... These are other states that were almost a part of the United States. Texas comes from the word teysha meaning “hello friend ...

The folks at WordTips compiled an interesting set of data that plots the literal meaning of US state and city names on maps ...

Republicans saw this year's Senate map as a seemingly once-in-a-decade opportunity, but the chamber is tightening to Montana ...

Get in the spooky spirit by finding out which Halloween candy is the most popular in every state. Look at the map and see if ...

If warmer ocean temperatures persist, we could be looking at more active hurricane seasons—and more disasters—in the years ...

The key presidential states of Georgia and North Carolina were hit particularly hard by Hurricane Helene. NPR compared which ...

Mount Adams, the long-dormant volcano in Southwest Washington, recently experienced some unusual seismic activity.

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It’s almost impossible to understate how popular the name Mary once was in the United States ... name in 28 states, followed by William and Michael. As for the girls’ map, Emily and Madison ...