Immigrants did not just settle in random locations, but rather congregated with others who spoke the same language and had the same religion.
Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history.
Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.
For this reason, cities such as New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Albuquerque are not on the list.
For the purposes of this list, place means any named location that is smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
Also included are country homes, castles, palaces, and similar institutions.
For cities in Palestinian territory, see the Ancient world section below.
named after a place in England [9] Cities that have namesakes because they are biblical or prominent in ancient history are in this section.
The Harris family were early settlers, and named the town after their former home of Carthage, Tennessee."