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.
| Number | Name of county | Count[1] | Most commonly named after | |
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| 1 | 31 | George Washington | ||
| 2 | 26 | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 3 | 25 | Benjamin Franklin | ||
| 4 | 24 | Andrew Jackson | ||
| 4 | 24 | Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Lincoln (6) | ||
| 6 | 20 | James Madison | ||
| 7 | 18 | Henry Clay | ||
| 7 | 18 | Richard Montgomery | ||
| 7 | 18 | The Union of the States or union of parts of adjoining counties | ||
| 10 | 17 | Francis Marion | ||
| 10 | 17 | James Monroe | ||
| 12 | 16 | Nathanael Greene. See also Green County. | ||
| 12 | 16 | Anthony Wayne | ||
| 14 | 15 | Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| 15 | 14 | Joseph Warren | ||
| 16 | 13 | Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ||
| 17 | 12 | John Adams or John Quincy Adams | ||
| 17 | 12 | William Clark or George Rogers Clark. See also Clarke County. | ||
| 17 | 12 | Stephen A. Douglas | ||
| 17 | 12 | Richard M. Johnson | ||
| 17 | 12 | Geographical feature | ||
| 17 | 12 | Robert E. Lee or Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee | ||
| 17 | 12 | John Marshall | ||
| 17 | 12 | James K. Polk | ||
| 25 | 11 | John C. Calhoun | ||
| 25 | 11 | William H. Crawford or Col. William Crawford | ||
| 25 | 11 | Marquis de la Fayette | ||
| 25 | 11 | James Lawrence | ||
| 25 | 11 | Daniel Morgan (except Colorado, named for Fort Morgan, which was named for Col. Christopher A. Morgan) (1) | ||
| 25 | 11 | Winfield Scott or Charles Scott | ||
| 31 | 10 | Alexander Hamilton | ||
| 31 | 10 | John Hancock | ||
| 31 | 10 | Patrick Henry (except Iowa; named for Col. Henry Dodge) | ||
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| 31 | 10 | Oliver Hazard Perry | ||
| 31 | 10 | Zebulon Pike | ||
| 37 | 9 | Thomas Hart Benton | ||
| 37 | 9 | Jacob Brown | ||
| 37 | 9 | Lewis Cass | ||
| 37 | 9 | George Clinton or DeWitt Clinton | ||
| 37 | 9 | Henry Knox | ||
| 37 | 9 | Israel Putnam | ||
| 37 | 9 | Isaac Shelby | ||
| 44 | 8 | Daniel Boone | ||
| 44 | 8 | William O. Butler or Richard Butler | ||
| 44 | 8 | Cherokee tribe | ||
| 44 | 8 | Columbia (poetic name for America) | ||
| 44 | 8 | Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ||
| 44 | 8 | Robert Fulton | ||
| 44 | 8 | William Henry Harrison | ||
| 44 | 8 | William Jasper | ||
| 44 | 8 | Hugh Mercer | ||
| 44 | 8 | the fruit or Prince of Orange | ||
| 44 | 8 | Edmund Randolph or John Randolph of Roanoke | ||
| 44 | 8 | Daniel Webster | ||
| 56 | 7 | Tilghman Howard, John Eager Howard, or Oliver Otis Howard | ||
| 56 | 7 | Meriwether Lewis except Lewis County, New York, which was named after Morgan Lewis, then Governor of New York. | ||
| 56 | 7 | Kazimierz Pułaski | ||
| 56 | 7 | fertile soil | ||
| 56 | 7 | Zachary Taylor | ||
| 61 | 6 | George Armstrong Custer | ||
| 61 | 6 | Johann de Kalb | ||
| 61 | 6 | Delaware (tribe) (3) | ||
| 61 | 6 | Marquis de Lafayette | ||
| 61 | 6 | John Floyd | ||
| 61 | 6 | James A. Garfield | ||
| 61 | 6 | John Hardin, John J. Hardin, or Joseph Hardin Sr. | ||
| 61 | 6 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 61 | 6 | Edward Livingston (4) | ||
| 61 | 6 | Nathaniel Macon | ||
| 61 | 6 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 61 | 6 | George Mason (3) | ||
| 61 | 6 | Sgt. John Newton (4) | ||
| 61 | 6 | John Sullivan | ||
| 75 | 5 | John Allen | ||
| 75 | 5 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 75 | 5 | John Caldwell (2) | ||
| 75 | 5 | Robert Campbell (Wyoming) | ||
| 75 | 5 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 75 | 5 | Alexander J. Dallas (Alabama); George M. Dallas | ||
| 75 | 5 | Stephen Decatur | ||
| 75 | 5 | County of Essex in England | ||
| 75 | 5 | Richard Henderson (2) | ||
| 75 | 5 | Sam Houston | ||
| 75 | 5 | County of Kent in England | ||
| 75 | 5 | Nathaniel Lyon, except for Lyon County, Kentucky, which is named for Chittenden Lyon | ||
| 75 | 5 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 75 | 5 | Franklin Pierce | ||
| 75 | 5 | Saltwater springs; the Saline River | ||
| 75 | 5 | Philip Sheridan | ||
| 75 | 5 | Isaac White (2) | ||
| 75 | 5 | James, Duke of York (later King James II); city of York, England | ||
| 94 | 4 | John Adair | ||
| 94 | 4 | Allegheny Mountains and Allegheny River | ||
| 94 | 4 | James Blaine | ||
| 94 | 4 | Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden | ||
| 94 | 4 | Coal deposits | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | Henry Dodge | ||
| 94 | 4 | John C. Frémont | ||
| 94 | 4 | Felix Grundy | ||
| 94 | 4 | Iron ore deposits | ||
| 94 | 4 | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (except for Lamar County, Texas) | ||
| 94 | 4 | Lancaster, Lancashire | ||
| 94 | 4 | Liberty | ||
| 94 | 4 | Lewis F. Linn | ||
| 94 | 4 | Historic county of Middlesex in England | ||
| 94 | 4 | Mineral deposits | ||
| 94 | 4 | Odawa people | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | Duke of Richmond | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) (3) | ||
| 94 | 4 | William Tecumseh Sherman, except Sherman County, Texas, named for Sidney Sherman | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | County of Somerset in England | ||
| 94 | 4 | Arthur St. Clair, except St. Clair County, Michigan, named for St. Clare of Assisi | ||
| 94 | 4 | Thomas Sumter | ||
| 94 | 4 | Martin Van Buren | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
| 94 | 4 | Each county is named after a different person. | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Beaver | ||
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| 123 | 3 | James Buchanan | ||
| 123 | 3 | Buffalo
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| 123 | 3[2] | Butte (natural feature) | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Cheyenne people | ||
| 123 | 3 | Ojibwa people | ||
| 123 | 3 | Choctaw people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | William C. C. Claiborne | ||
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| 123 | 3 | John Coffee | ||
| 123 | 3 | Comanche people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Joseph Hamilton Daveiss | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Hernando de Soto | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Lake Erie, Erie people | ||
| 123 | 3 | The beauty of the fields in these areas | ||
| 123 | 3 | Albert Gallatin | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Alexander von Humboldt | ||
| 123 | 3 | Kiowa people | ||
| 123 | 3 | René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle | ||
| 123 | 3 | James Lauderdale | ||
| 123 | 3 | William Jones Lowndes | ||
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| 123 | 3 | James B. McPherson | ||
| 123 | 3 | George Gordon Meade | ||
| 123 | 3 | Miami people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Thomas Nelson Jr. | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Northamptonshire, England (2) | ||
| 123 | 3 | Ohio River | ||
| 123 | 3 | Oneida people (2) | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Osage people | ||
| 123 | 3 | Osceola | ||
| 123 | 3 | South Park and Yellowstone | ||
| 123 | 3 | Pawnee people | ||
| 123 | 3 | Andrew Pickens | ||
| 123 | 3 | Platte River | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Potawatomi people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham | ||
| 123 | 3 | Philip Schuyler | ||
| 123 | 3 | Seminole people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Sioux people | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Summits (geographical feature) | ||
| 123 | 3 | County of Sussex in England | ||
| 123 | 3 | Teton River (Montana); Teton Range | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Valleys (geographical feature) | ||
| 123 | 3 | Vermilion River | ||
| 123 | 3 | Mount Vernon | ||
| 123 | 3 | Samuel Walker (Texas) | ||
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| 123 | 3 | Winnebago people | ||
| 123 | 3 | William J. Worth | ||
| 123 | 3 | Silas Wright | ||
| 123 | 3 | Delaware Indian word meaning "wide plains"; Wyoming Valley | ||
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| 210 | 2 | The Lexington estate of Henry Clay | ||
| 210 | 2 | David Rice Atchison | ||
| 210 | 2 | Abraham Baldwin | ||
| 210 | 2 | William T. Barry | ||
| 210 | 2 | Clara Barton (KS); David Barton (MO) | ||
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| 210 | 2 | James Barbour (AL); Philip P. Barbour (WV) | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Henry, Duke of Beaufort | ||
| 210 | 2 | J. C. W. Beckham | ||
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| 210 | 2 | John M. Berrien | ||
| 210 | 2 | William W. Bibb | ||
| 210 | 2 | Big Horn River | ||
| 210 | 2 | William Blount | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Caddo people | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Chickasaw people | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Patrick Cleburne | ||
| 210 | 2 | Schuyler Colfax | ||
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| 210 | 2 | David Crockett | ||
| 210 | 2 | George Crook | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Sioux people | ||
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| 210 | 2 | DeWitt Clinton (Illinois); Green DeWitt (Texas) | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Elk | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Escambia River | ||
| 210 | 2 | James Fannin | ||
| 210 | 2 | Millard Fillmore | ||
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| 210 | 2 | County of Gloucestershire in England | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Grand River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Horace Greeley | ||
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| 210 | 2 | County of Hampshire in England | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Warren Harding (New Mexico); J.A. Harding (South Dakota) | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Rutherford B. Hayes (Nebraska); John Coffee Hays (Texas) | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Jefferson Davis | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Henry Laurens[4] and John Laurens[5] | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Return J. Meigs Sr. | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Menominee people | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Mississippi River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Nevada City (California); Nevada | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Northumberland, England | ||
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| 210 | 2 | John Paulding | ||
| 210 | 2 | Edmund Pendleton | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Pocahontas | ||
| 210 | 2 | Chickasaw word for the region | ||
| 210 | 2 | Portages | ||
| 210 | 2 | Lazarus Powell (Kentucky); John Wesley Powell (Montana) | ||
| 210 | 2 | Grand Prairie (Arkansas); Great Plains (Montana) | ||
| 210 | 2 | John A. Quitman | ||
| 210 | 2 | Alexander Ramsey | ||
| 210 | 2 | Red River | ||
| 210 | 2 | Joseph Renville | ||
| 210 | 2 | Samuel Rice (Kansas); Henry Rice (Minnesota) | ||
| 210 | 2 | Eleazer Wheelock Ripley | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Griffith Rutherford | ||
| 210 | 2 | Sabine River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Scotland | ||
| 210 | 2 | John Sedgwick | ||
| 210 | 2 | Seneca people | ||
| 210 | 2 | William H. Seward | ||
| 210 | 2 | George Shannon | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Spier Spencer | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Saint Charles Borromeo | ||
| 210 | 2 | St. Joseph River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Edwin Stanton | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Baron von Steuben | ||
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| 210 | 2 | County of Suffolk in England | ||
| 210 | 2 | Edwin V. Sumner (Kansas); Jethro Sumner (Tennessee) | ||
| 210 | 2 | County of Surrey in England | ||
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| 210 | 2 | The state of Texas | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Trinity River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | John Tyler | ||
| 210 | 2 | Abel Parker Upshur | ||
| 210 | 2 | Wabash River | ||
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| 210 | 2 | County of Westmorland in England | ||
| 210 | 2 | William Whitley | ||
| 210 | 2 | Wichita people, indirectly | ||
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| 210 | 2 | John Wilkes | ||
| 210 | 2 | James Wilkinson | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Wineham [sic], England | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Henry Alexander Wise | ||
| 210 | 2 | William Woodford | ||
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| 210 | 2 | Yuma (Quechan) people |