List of the most common U.S. county names
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 429 most common county names, which are shared by counties in two or more states each, accounting for 1,732 of the 3,140 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (except Iowa; named for Col. Henry Dodge) |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 75 | Campbell County | 5 | |
| 75 | Carter County | 5 | |
| 75 | Clarke County | 5 | |
| 75 | Dallas County | 5 | |
| 75 | Decatur County | 5 | Stephen Decatur |
| 75 | Essex County | 5 | County of Essex in England |
| 75 | Henderson County | 5 | |
| 75 | Houston County | 5 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 75 | York County | 5 | |
| 94 | Adair County | 4 | John Adair |
| 94 | Alleghany County | 4 | |
| 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 | |
| 94 | Dodge County | 4 | |
| 94 | Fremont County | 4 | John C. Frémont |
| 94 | Grundy County | 4 | |
| 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 | |
| 94 | Linn County | 4 | Lewis F. Linn |
| 94 | Middlesex County | 4 | Historic county of Middlesex in England |
| 94 | Mineral County | 4 | |
| 94 | Ottawa County | 4 | Ottawa Indians |
| 94 | Phillips County | 4 | |
| 94 | Richmond County | 4 | |
| 94 | Russell County | 4 | |
| 94 | San Juan County | 4 | |
| 94 | Sherman County | 4 | William Tecumseh Sherman, except Sherman County, Texas, named for Sidney Sherman |
| 94 | Smith County | 4 | |
| 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 | |
| 94 | Van Buren County | 4 | Martin Van Buren |
| 94 | Wheeler County | 4 | |
| 94 | Wilson County | 4 | |
| 94 | Wood County | 4 | |
| 123 | Baker County | 3 | |
| 123 | Beaver County | 3 | |
| 123 | Bedford County | 3 | |
| 123 | Buchanan County | 3 | James Buchanan |
| 123 | Buffalo County | 3 | |
| 123 | Burke County | 3 | |
| 123 | Butte County | 3[2] | |
| 123 | Cameron County | 3 | |
| 123 | Cedar County | 3 | |
| 123 | Chester County | 3 | |
| 123 | Cheyenne County | 3 | |
| 123 | Chippewa County | 3 | |
| 123 | Choctaw County | 3 | |
| 123 | Christian County | 3 | |
| 123 | Claiborne County | 3 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 123 | Noble County | 3 | |
| 123 | Northampton County | 3 | |
| 123 | Ohio County | 3 | Ohio River |
| 123 | Oneida County | 3 | |
| 123 | Orleans County | 3 | |
| 123 | Osage County | 3 | |
| 123 | Osceola County | 3 | Osceola |
| 123 | Park County | 3 | |
| 123 | Pawnee County | 3 | Pawnee people |
| 123 | Pickens County | 3 | Andrew Pickens |
| 123 | Platte County | 3 | |
| 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 | |
| 123 | Thomas County | 3 | |
| 123 | Todd County | 3 | |
| 123 | Valley County | 3 | |
| 123 | Vermilion County | 3 | Vermilion River |
| 123 | Vernon County | 3 | |
| 123 | Walker County | 3 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Albany County | 2 | |
| 210 | Alexander County | 2 | |
| 210 | Armstrong County | 2 | |
| 210 | Ashland County | 2 | |
| 210 | Atchison County | 2 | |
| 210 | Baldwin County | 2 | |
| 210 | Barry County | 2 | |
| 210 | Barton County | 2 | |
| 210 | Bath County | 2 | |
| 210 | Barbour County | 2 | |
| 210 | Bay County | 2 | |
| 210 | Beaufort County | 2 | |
| 210 | Beckham County | 2 | J. C. W. Beckham |
| 210 | Bell County | 2 | |
| 210 | Berkeley County | 2 | |
| 210 | Berrien County | 2 | |
| 210 | Bibb County | 2 | |
| 210 | Big Horn County | 2 | |
| 210 | Blount County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Bryan County | 2 | |
| 210 | Burnett County | 2 | |
| 210 | Caddo County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Clayton County | 2 | |
| 210 | Clearwater County | 2 | |
| 210 | Cleburne County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Crook County | 2 | |
| 210 | Curry County | 2 | |
| 210 | Dade County | 2[3] | |
| 210 | Dakota County | 2 | |
| 210 | Davidson County | 2 | |
| 210 | Davis County | 2 | |
| 210 | Deuel County | 2 | |
| 210 | Dewey County | 2 | |
| 210 | DeWitt County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Elmore County | 2 | |
| 210 | Emmet County | 2 | |
| 210 | Escambia County | 2 | |
| 210 | Fannin County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Harlan County | 2 | |
| 210 | Harper County | 2 | |
| 210 | Harris County | 2 | |
| 210 | Hart County | 2 | |
| 210 | Hayes County | 2 | Rutherford B. Hayes (Nebraska), and Hays County, Texas, named for John Coffee Hays |
| 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 | Klamath 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Nicholas County | 2 | |
| 210 | Northumberland County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 210 | Pennington County | 2 | |
| 210 | Perkins County | 2 | |
| 210 | Phelps County | 2 | |
| 210 | Plymouth County | 2 | |
| 210 | Pocahontas County | 2 | Pocahontas |
| 210 | Pontotoc County | 2 | Chicasaw word for the region |
| 210 | Portage County | 2 | Portages |
| 210 | Powell County | 2 | |
| 210 | Prairie County | 2 | |
| 210 | Quitman County | 2 | John A. Quitman |
| 210 | Ramsey County | 2 | Alexander Ramsey |
| 210 | Red River County | 2 | The Red River |
| 210 | Renville County | 2 | Joseph Renville |
| 210 | Rice County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | The Seneca people |
| 210 | Seward County | 2 | William H. Seward |
| 210 | Shannon County | 2 | |
| 210 | Sierra County | 2 | |
| 210 | Simpson County | 2 | |
| 210 | Spencer County | 2 | Spier Spencer |
| 210 | Stanley County | 2 | |
| 210 | St. Charles County | 2 | |
| 210 | St. Joseph County | 2 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | The 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 | |
| 210 | Winston County | 2 | |
| 210 | Wise County | 2 | Henry Alexander Wise |
| 210 | Woodford County | 2 | |
| 210 | Worcester County | 2 | |
| 210 | Yuma County | 2 |
Notes and references[]
- ^ Count includes parishes in Louisiana
- ^ 4 including Box Butte County, Nebraska
- ^ 3 including Miami-Dade County, Florida
- ^ "History of Laurens County, SC - A Brief History". Town Square Publications. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "History | Laurens County, GA".
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