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List of the most common U.S. county names

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Location of counties with the five most popular names

This is a list of U.S. county names that are used in two or more states. Ranked are the 428 most common county names, which are shared by counties in two or more states each, accounting for 1,730 of the 3,140 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.

List

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Number Name of county Count[1] Most commonly named after
1 Washington County 31 George Washington
2 Jefferson County 26 Thomas Jefferson
3 Franklin County 25 Benjamin Franklin
4 Jackson County 24 Andrew Jackson
4 Lincoln County 24 Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Lincoln (6)
6 Madison County 20 James Madison
7 Clay County 18 Henry Clay
7 Montgomery County 18 Richard Montgomery
7 Union County 18 The Union of the States or union of parts of adjoining counties
10 Marion County 17 Francis Marion
10 Monroe County 17 James Monroe
12 Greene County 16 Nathanael Greene. See also Green County.
12 Wayne County 16 Anthony Wayne
14 Grant County 15 Ulysses S. Grant
15 Warren County 14 Joseph Warren
16 Carroll County 13 Charles Carroll of Carrollton
17 Adams County 12 John Adams or John Quincy Adams
17 Clark County 12 William Clark or George Rogers Clark. See also Clarke County.
17 Douglas County 12 Stephen A. Douglas
17 Johnson County 12 Richard M. Johnson
17 Lake County 12 Geographical feature
17 Lee County 12 Robert E. Lee or Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee
17 Marshall County 12 John Marshall
17 Polk County 12 James K. Polk
25 Calhoun County 11 John C. Calhoun
25 Crawford County 11 William H. Crawford or Col. William Crawford
25 Fayette County 11 Marquis de la Fayette
25 Lawrence County 11 James Lawrence
25 Morgan County 11 Daniel Morgan or Fort Morgan/Col. Christopher A. Morgan (Colorado) (1)
25 Scott County 11 Winfield Scott or Charles Scott
31 Hamilton County 10 Alexander Hamilton
31 Hancock County 10 John Hancock
31 Henry County 10 Patrick Henry or Col. Henry Dodge (Iowa)
31 Logan County 10 John A. Logan or Benjamin Logan
31 Perry County 10 Oliver Hazard Perry
31 Pike County 10 Zebulon Pike
37 Benton County 9 Thomas Hart Benton
37 Brown County 9 Jacob Brown
37 Cass County 9 Lewis Cass
37 Clinton County 9 George Clinton or DeWitt Clinton
37 Knox County 9 Henry Knox
37 Putnam County 9 Israel Putnam
37 Shelby County 9 Isaac Shelby
44 Boone County 8 Daniel Boone
44 Butler County 8 William O. Butler or Richard Butler
44 Cherokee County 8 Cherokee tribe
44 Columbia County 8 Columbia (poetic name for America)
44 Cumberland County 8 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
44 Fulton County 8 Robert Fulton
44 Harrison County 8 William Henry Harrison
44 Jasper County 8 William Jasper
44 Mercer County 8 Hugh Mercer
44 Orange County 8 the fruit or Prince of Orange
44 Randolph County 8 Edmund Randolph or John Randolph of Roanoke
44 Webster County 8 Daniel Webster
56 Howard County 7 Tilghman Howard, John Eager Howard, or Oliver Otis Howard
56 Lewis County 7 Meriwether Lewis or Morgan Lewis (New York)
56 Pulaski County 7 Kazimierz Pułaski
56 Richland County 7 fertile soil
56 Taylor County 7 Zachary Taylor
61 Custer County 6 George Armstrong Custer
61 DeKalb County 6 Johann de Kalb
61 Delaware County 6 Delaware (tribe) (3)
61 Lafayette County 6 Marquis de Lafayette
61 Floyd County 6 John Floyd
61 Garfield County 6 James A. Garfield
61 Hardin County 6 John Hardin, John J. Hardin, or Joseph Hardin Sr.
61 Jones County 6 Each county is named after a different person.
61 Livingston County 6 Edward Livingston (4)
61 Macon County 6 Nathaniel Macon
61 Martin County 6 Each county is named after a different person.
61 Mason County 6 George Mason (3)
61 Newton County 6 Sgt. John Newton (4)
61 Sullivan County 6 John Sullivan
75 Allen County 5 John Allen
75 Anderson County 5 Each county is named after a different person.
75 Caldwell County 5 John Caldwell (2)
75 Campbell County 5 Robert Campbell (Wyoming)
75 Carter County 5 Each county is named after a different person.
75 Dallas County 5 Alexander J. Dallas (Alabama); George M. Dallas
75 Decatur County 5 Stephen Decatur
75 Essex County 5 County of Essex in England
75 Henderson County 5 Richard Henderson (2)
75 Houston County 5 Sam Houston; George S. Houston; John Houstoun
75 Kent County 5 County of Kent in England
75 Lyon County 5 Nathaniel Lyon, except for Lyon County, Kentucky, which is named for Chittenden Lyon
75 Mitchell County 5 Each county is named after a different person.
75 Pierce County 5 Franklin Pierce
75 Saline County 5 Saltwater springs; the Saline River
75 Sheridan County 5 Philip Sheridan
75 White County 5 Isaac White (2)
75 York County 5 James, Duke of York (later King James II); city of York, England
94 Adair County 4 John Adair
94 Allegheny/Alleg(h)any County 4 Allegheny Mountains and Allegheny River
94 Blaine County 4 James Blaine
94 Camden County 4 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
94 Carbon County 4 Coal deposits
94 Dawson County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 Dodge County 4 Henry Dodge
94 Fremont County 4 John C. Frémont
94 Grundy County 4 Felix Grundy
94 Iron County 4 Iron ore deposits
94 Lamar County 4 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (except for Lamar County, Texas)
94 Lancaster County 4 Lancaster, Lancashire
94 Liberty County 4 Liberty
94 Linn County 4 Lewis F. Linn
94 Middlesex County 4 Historic county of Middlesex in England
94 Mineral County 4 Mineral deposits
94 Ottawa County 4 Odawa people
94 Phillips County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 Richmond County 4 Duke of Richmond
94 Russell County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 San Juan County 4 San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) (3)
94 Sherman County 4 William Tecumseh Sherman, except Sherman County, Texas, named for Sidney Sherman
94 Smith County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 Somerset County 4 County of Somerset in England
94 St. Clair County 4 Arthur St. Clair, except St. Clair County, Michigan, named for St. Clare of Assisi
94 Sumter County 4 Thomas Sumter
94 Van Buren County 4 Martin Van Buren
94 Wheeler County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 Wilson County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
94 Wood County 4 Each county is named after a different person.
123 Baker County 3
123 Beaver County 3 Beaver
123 Bedford County 3
123 Buchanan County 3 James Buchanan
123 Buffalo County 3 Buffalo; Buffalo River (Wisconsin)
123 Burke County 3
123 Butte County 3[2] Butte (natural feature)
123 Cameron County 3
123 Cedar County 3
123 Chester County 3
123 Cheyenne County 3 Cheyenne people
123 Chippewa County 3 Ojibwa people
123 Choctaw County 3 Choctaw people
123 Christian County 3
123 Claiborne County 3 William C. C. Claiborne
123 Cleveland County 3
123 Coffee County 3 John Coffee
123 Comanche County 3 Comanche people
123 Cook County 3
123 Daviess County 3 Joseph Hamilton Daveiss
123 Delta County 3
123 DeSoto County 3 Hernando de Soto
123 Dickinson County 3
123 Edwards County 3
123 Ellis County 3
123 Erie County 3 Lake Erie, Erie people
123 Fairfield County 3 The beauty of the fields in these areas
123 Gallatin County 3 Albert Gallatin
123 Graham County 3
123 Grayson County 3
123 Hall County 3
123 Haskell County 3
123 Holmes County 3
123 Humboldt County 3 Alexander von Humboldt
123 Kiowa County 3 Kiowa people
123 LaSalle County 3 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
123 Lauderdale County 3 James Lauderdale
123 Lowndes County 3 William Jones Lowndes
123 McIntosh County 3
123 McLean County 3
123 McPherson County 3 James B. McPherson
123 Meade County 3 George Gordon Meade
123 Miami County 3 Miami people
123 Miller County 3
123 Moore County 3
123 Morris County 3
123 Murray County 3
123 Nelson County 3 Thomas Nelson Jr.
123 Noble County 3
123 Northampton County 3 Northamptonshire, England (2)
123 Ohio County 3 Ohio River
123 Oneida County 3 Oneida people (2)
123 Orleans County 3
123 Osage County 3 Osage people
123 Osceola County 3 Osceola
123 Park County 3 South Park and Yellowstone
123 Pawnee County 3 Pawnee people
123 Pickens County 3 Andrew Pickens
123 Platte County 3 Platte River
123 Pope County 3
123 Pottawatomie County 3 Potawatomi people
123 Potter County 3
123 Robertson County 3
123 Rock County 3
123 Rockingham County 3 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
123 Schuyler County 3 Philip Schuyler
123 Seminole County 3 Seminole people
123 Sevier County 3
123 Sioux County 3 Sioux people
123 Stark County 3
123 Stephens County 3
123 Stevens County 3
123 Stone County 3
123 Summit County 3 Summits (geographical feature)
123 Sussex County 3 County of Sussex in England
123 Teton County 3 Teton River (Montana); Teton Range
123 Thomas County 3
123 Todd County 3
123 Valley County 3 Valleys (geographical feature)
123 Vermilion County 3 Vermilion River
123 Vernon County 3 Mount Vernon
123 Walker County 3 Samuel Walker (Texas)
123 Williamson County 3
123 Winnebago County 3 Winnebago people
123 Worth County 3 William J. Worth
123 Wright County 3 Silas Wright
123 Wyoming County 3 Delaware Indian word meaning "wide plains"; Wyoming Valley
210 Albany County 2
210 Alexander County 2
210 Armstrong County 2
210 Ashland County 2 The Lexington estate of Henry Clay
210 Atchison County 2 David Rice Atchison
210 Baldwin County 2 Abraham Baldwin
210 Barry County 2 William T. Barry
210 Barton County 2 Clara Barton (KS); David Barton (MO)
210 Bath County 2
210 Barbour County 2 James Barbour (AL); Philip P. Barbour (WV)
210 Bay County 2
210 Beaufort County 2 Henry, Duke of Beaufort
210 Beckham County 2 J. C. W. Beckham
210 Bell County 2
210 Berkeley County 2
210 Berrien County 2 John M. Berrien
210 Bibb County 2 William W. Bibb
210 Big Horn County 2 Big Horn River
210 Blount County 2 William Blount
210 Bourbon County 2
210 Boyd County 2
210 Bradford County 2
210 Bradley County 2
210 Bristol County 2
210 Brooks County 2
210 Brunswick County 2 Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
210 Bryan County 2
210 Burnett County 2
210 Caddo County 2 Caddo people
210 Caroline County 2
210 Chambers County 2
210 Champaign County 2
210 Charlotte County 2
210 Chase County 2
210 Chatham County 2
210 Chautauqua County 2
210 Chesterfield County 2
210 Chickasaw County 2 Chickasaw people
210 Clayton County 2
210 Clearwater County 2
210 Cleburne County 2 Patrick Cleburne
210 Colfax County 2 Schuyler Colfax
210 Coos County 2
210 Covington County 2
210 Craig County 2
210 Crittenden County 2
210 Crockett County 2 David Crockett
210 Crook County 2 George Crook
210 Curry County 2
210 Dade County 2[3]
210 Dakota County 2 Sioux people
210 Davidson County 2
210 Davis County 2
210 Deuel County 2
210 Dewey County 2
210 DeWitt County 2 DeWitt Clinton (Illinois); Green DeWitt (Texas)
210 Dorchester County 2
210 Dunn County 2
210 Duval County 2
210 Eddy County 2
210 Effingham County 2
210 El Paso County 2
210 Elbert County 2
210 Elk County 2 Elk
210 Elmore County 2
210 Emmet County 2
210 Escambia County 2 Escambia River
210 Fannin County 2 James Fannin
210 Fillmore County 2 Millard Fillmore
210 Florence County 2
210 Ford County 2
210 Forest County 2
210 Forsyth County 2
210 Frederick County 2
210 Genesee County 2
210 Gibson County 2
210 Giles County 2
210 Gilmer County 2
210 Gloucester County 2 County of Gloucestershire in England
210 Golden Valley County 2
210 Grady County 2
210 Grand County 2 Grand River
210 Gray County 2
210 Greeley County 2 Horace Greeley
210 Greenwood County 2
210 Guadalupe County 2
210 Hale County 2
210 Halifax County 2
210 Hampshire County 2 County of Hampshire in England
210 Hardeman County 2
210 Harding County 2 Warren Harding (New Mexico); J.A. Harding (South Dakota)
210 Harlan County 2
210 Harper County 2
210 Harris County 2
210 Hart County 2
210 Hayes County 2 Rutherford B. Hayes (Nebraska); John Coffee Hays (Texas)
210 Haywood County 2
210 Hickman County 2
210 Hidalgo County 2
210 Highland County 2
210 Hill County 2
210 Hillsborough County 2
210 Holt County 2
210 Hopkins County 2
210 Hughes County 2
210 Humphreys County 2
210 Huron County 2
210 Hutchinson County 2
210 Hyde County 2
210 Iowa County 2
210 Jeff Davis County 2 Jefferson Davis
210 Johnston County 2
210 Juneau County 2
210 Kane County 2
210 Kendall County 2
210 King County 2
210 Kings County 2
210 Lane County 2
210 Laurens County 2 Henry Laurens[4] and John Laurens[5]
210 Leon County 2
210 Limestone County 2
210 Louisa County 2
210 Lucas County 2
210 Marquette County 2
210 McDowell County 2
210 McHenry County 2
210 Mecklenburg County 2 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
210 Medina County 2
210 Meigs County 2 Return J. Meigs Sr.
210 Menard County 2
210 Menominee County 2 Menominee people
210 Midland County 2
210 Mills County 2
210 Mississippi County 2 Mississippi River
210 Morrow County 2
210 Morton County 2
210 Nassau County 2
210 Nemaha County 2
210 Nevada County 2 Nevada City (California); Nevada
210 Nicholas County 2
210 Northumberland County 2 Northumberland, England
210 Oconee County 2
210 Oldham County 2
210 Otero County 2
210 Otsego County 2
210 Ouachita County 2
210 Owen County 2
210 Page County 2
210 Panola County 2
210 Paulding County 2 John Paulding
210 Pendleton County 2 Edmund Pendleton
210 Pennington County 2
210 Perkins County 2
210 Phelps County 2
210 Plymouth County 2 Plymouth, Massachusetts
210 Pocahontas County 2 Pocahontas
210 Pontotoc County 2 Chickasaw word for the region
210 Portage County 2 Portages
210 Powell County 2 Lazarus Powell (Kentucky); John Wesley Powell (Montana)
210 Prairie County 2 Grand Prairie (Arkansas); Great Plains (Montana)
210 Quitman County 2 John A. Quitman
210 Ramsey County 2 Alexander Ramsey
210 Red River County 2 Red River
210 Renville County 2 Joseph Renville
210 Rice County 2 Samuel Rice (Kansas); Henry Rice (Minnesota)
210 Ripley County 2 Eleazer Wheelock Ripley
210 Roane County 2
210 Roberts County 2
210 Roosevelt County 2 Theodore Roosevelt
210 Rowan County 2
210 Rush County 2
210 Rusk County 2
210 Rutherford County 2 Griffith Rutherford
210 Sabine County 2 Sabine River
210 San Miguel County 2
210 Santa Cruz County 2
210 Scotland County 2 Scotland
210 Sedgwick County 2 John Sedgwick
210 Seneca County 2 Seneca people
210 Seward County 2 William H. Seward
210 Shannon County 2 George Shannon; Peter Shannon
210 Sierra County 2
210 Simpson County 2
210 Spencer County 2 Spier Spencer
210 Stanley County 2 David Stanley
210 St. Charles County 2 Saint Charles Borromeo
210 St. Joseph County 2 St. Joseph River
210 St. Louis County 2
210 Stafford County 2
210 Stanton County 2 Edwin Stanton
210 Steele County 2
210 Steuben County 2 Baron von Steuben
210 Stewart County 2
210 Suffolk County 2 County of Suffolk in England
210 Sumner County 2 Edwin V. Sumner (Kansas); Jethro Sumner (Tennessee)
210 Surry County 2 County of Surrey in England
210 Talbot County 2
210 Tazewell County 2
210 Terrell County 2
210 Texas County 2 The state of Texas
210 Thurston County 2
210 Tioga County 2
210 Tipton County 2
210 Trinity County 2 Trinity River
210 Turner County 2
210 Tyler County 2 John Tyler
210 Upshur County 2 Abel Parker Upshur
210 Wabash County 2 Wabash River
210 Walton County 2
210 Walworth County 2
210 Ward County 2
210 Wells County 2
210 Westmoreland County 2 County of Westmorland in England
210 Whitley County 2 William Whitley
210 Wichita County 2 Wichita people, indirectly
210 Wilcox County 2
210 Wilkes County 2 John Wilkes
210 Wilkinson County 2 James Wilkinson
210 Williams County 2
210 Windham County 2 Wineham [sic], England
210 Winston County 2
210 Wise County 2 Henry Alexander Wise
210 Woodford County 2 William Woodford
210 Worcester County 2
210 Yuma County 2 Yuma (Quechan) people

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Count includes parishes in Louisiana
  2. ^ 4 including Box Butte County, Nebraska
  3. ^ 3 including Miami-Dade County, Florida
  4. ^ "History of Laurens County, SC - A Brief History". Town Square Publications. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  5. ^ "History | Laurens County, GA".
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