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Just add new to the name

We also have a few original names, like bucksnort, horsethief basin and truth or consequences

There are also a lot of places that kept the original native names. Not as numerous as the "New [European place]" ones, but enough that you notice.

Hey hey, we did call it "New". Well, sometimes anyway. I definitely lived in town just called York.

Meanwhile in the UK they have Bath and Bedford

As much as Europeans don't like it, Americans are your children.

Well, the Capitol of Minnesota could have been called Pigs Eye after a French Canadian fur trapper if it wasn't for a Catholic priest changing it to St Paul.

and the original European names are also pretty functional:

I believe Amsterdam is just "River Dam"

And York is just "Yew", presumably named after trees that grew there. (Eburacon -> Eboracum -> Eoforwic -> Jórvík -> York)

But New York in the United States isn't even directly named after the English city of York, but rather a person (James Stuart) who was the Duke of York when England took control of the territory from the Dutch.

I always assumed it was where the people who settled it were originally from.

You should check the city names in Florida, no idea what they were thinking

There were no Americans when many of those places were named...