It’s common knowledge that people living in Florida are called Floridians and that, on the West Coast, the people living in California are straightforwadly called Californians.
Those two States have made it easy on us but some other ones, like Massachussetts have generally unknown demonyms like Massachusites which merely has a few hundred hits in the Google Search engine!
So in order to help everybody make sense of how people are called in the 50 US States, here’s the updated list, straight from the Wikipedia but with a few adjustments, here and there.
Now, you’ll be able to impress your “Mississippian” friends by merely knowing how they’re called.
| State/territory | Adjective | Demonym | |
|---|---|---|---|
| colloquial | |||
| Alabama | Alabamian | Alabamians | |
| Alaska | Alaskan | Alaskans | |
| Arizona | Arizonan | Arizonans | |
| Arkansas | Arkansan | Arkansans | |
| California | Californian | Californians | |
| Colorado | Coloradan | Coloradans, Coloradoans | |
| Connecticut | Connecticuters | “Nutmeggers” | |
| Delaware | Delawarean | Delawareans | |
| Florida | Floridian | Floridians | |
| Georgia | Georgian | Georgians | |
| Hawaii | Hawaiian | Hawaiians | “Islanders”Hawaiian:“Kamaʻāina” (natives)
“Malihini” (non-natives) |
| Idaho | Idahoan | Idahoans | |
| Indiana | Hoosier | “Hoosiers” | |
| Illinois | Illinoisan | Illinoisans | |
| Iowa | Iowan | Iowans | “Hawkeyes” |
| Kansas | Kansan | Kansans | |
| Kentucky | Kentuckian | Kentuckians | |
| Louisiana | Louisianan | Louisianans, Louisianians | |
| Maine | Mainers | “Down Easters” | |
| Maryland | Marylanders | “Free-Staters“”Old Liners | |
| Massachusetts | Bay Staters (official), Massachusites (traditional) | ||
| Michigan | Michiganders, Michiganians | ||
| Minnesota | Minnesotan | Minnesotans | |
| Mississippi | Mississippian | Mississippians | |
| Missouri | Missourian | Missourians | |
| Montana | Montanan | Montanans | |
| Nebraska | Nebraskan | Nebraskans | |
| Nevada | Nevadan | Nevadans | |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshirite | New Hampshirites | |
| New Jersey | New Jerseyans, New Jerseyites | ||
| New Mexico | New Mexican | New Mexicans | |
| New York | New Yorkers | ||
| North Carolina | North Carolinian | North Carolinians | “Tar Heels“ |
| North Dakota | North Dakotan | North Dakotans | |
| Ohio | Ohioans | “Buckeyes” | |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoman | Oklahomans | “Sooners” |
| Oregon | Oregonian | Oregonians | |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvanian | Pennsylvanians | |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Islanders | ||
| South Carolina | South Carolinian | South Carolinians | |
| South Dakota | South Dakotan | South Dakotans | |
| Tennessee | Tennessean | Tennessean, volunteers | |
| Texas | Texan | Texans | |
| Utah | Utahn, Utahan | Utahns, Utahans | |
| Vermont | Vermonters | ||
| Virginia | Virginian | Virginians | |
| Washington | Washingtonian | Washingtonians | |
| West Virginia | West Virginian | West Virginians | |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsinites | ||
| Wyoming | Wyomes | ||
Most of these names come from way back so if you do some research on them, you’re sure to learn a thing or two as to how they came about.
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