The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

"Tre is named after his father David Glenn. But he's a third so that's how his nickname is Tre.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

She's named after my sister-in-law." "Well I always liked the name Sebastian, so I wanted to name our older son Sebastian.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

We found it in a baby book. And then Michael we named after my husband's good friend and my father."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

But his middle name is Miles which is my mother's maiden name." "Elizabeth is named after my grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The work was named after the island of Melos where the statue was discovered in eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

This is because most fraternities and sororities are named after a series of Greek letters, such as Alpha Delta Pi or Sigma Phi.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

She was named after her father's only brother, who died a few years before she was born.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

"My mother's was Virginia so we named after her and my wife Caty's middle name is Allison.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA's second director, will have a mirror seven times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

The school was named after the Hudson River Valley in the state of New York.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Many of them are using the Hubble space telescope that is named after him.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

This beautiful valley was named after the nineteenth-century explorer and hunter David Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The horse was named after a famous general known as "Black Jack" Pershing.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Many schools,streets,parks, libraries and other public buildings have been named after Cesar Chavez.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Her latest album "1977" is named after the year she was born.

VOA: special.2010.08.11