What is the correct name of someone from the united states?

Question

Nikita - is that your final answer !?

pretty sure its not an american or yank lol.

Answer 1

American-- living in the US and being a US citizen either by birth or naturalized. You can always just say US citizen.

The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the USA, the U.S. of A., the States, and America, is a country in North America. If you are from North America, inside the bordering states of the USA you're an American.


Decoy I thought your comment was funny, yet somewhat accurate. If you've seen an argument between someone visiting from the United States the first thing that comes out is “you’re an American aren’t you?” Drives me crazy =)

Answer 2

An American

Answer 3

An American

Answer 4

An American

Answer 5

When I was mugged in Mexico, and the police were filling out the paperwork, they put down my nationality as "Norte Americano".
Now Mexico is part of North America, so that seemed strange,
but whatever.

Citizens of the United States are technically Americans -- they live in North America. What people in the rest of hemisphere are bothered about is when the US usurps American for itself alone. Everybody who lives in the hemisphere is technically an "American."

"United Statesian" has been thrown around, but sounds kind of stupid. "Yankee" even though it has a negative connotation in much of the world, might fit -- although people from the southern United States would object to it.

For better or worse, through common usage, American has become the accepted term for a person from the US.

Answer 6

From 'America':

* Americanite
* Americian
* Amerikean (see Richard Amerike)

From Columbus:

* Columbard
* Columbian (hence the District of Columbia)

From 'the United States':

* Statesider
* Uesican (pronounced [juˈɛsɪkən]) or Uessian (pronounced [juˈɛsiən])
* Unisan or Unisian
* United States American, United Stater, United Stateser, United Statesian, United Statesman, or United Statian
* USAian, U.S. American, Usan, USAn, Usanian, Usian (pronounced [ˈjuʒən]), U-S-ian, or Usonian (pronounced [juˈsoʊniən])

Others

* Appalacian - from the geographical region of Appalachia
* Colonican
* Frede or Fredonian - presumably by identification with freedom [2].
* Nacirema (backwards spelling of "American" used in a satire of sociology by anthropologist Horace Mitchell Miner, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema")
* Pindosian (or just Pindos) - See below.
* Washingtonian - from George Washington or Washington, D.C.
* American-National

References to these words have been around since the early days of the republic,[citation needed] but American has become by far the most common term. Usonian is used in architectural circles, and Washingtonian remains as the adjective for the state of Washington and the city of Washington, D.C..



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Answer 7

An american

Answer 8

American, or Minnesotan, or which ever state the belong to...

To those of you, who felt the need to slip in a little 'rib' to those of us in America, Why should we apologize for the fortune and favor that has been granted to us? What you dismiss as arrogance I happily call Pride. The times have been good to us, just because they have not been to you why are we the bad guy. You don't have to love this country as I do, that is your right as promised by this nation. yes there are some a--holes among us, but can you honestly say that your country is a--hole free. We are coast to coast and 1 of 3 major countries on our Continent. Most countries in Europe are smaller than any given state west of New England so perhaps our sheer size causes us to be a little cocky, so what. The fact is that America has only been America for 230 years and in that time we've grown to that size, had our civil war, and reunited strong enough to end 2 world wars within 80 years of that. France and Germany are far older nations and it was their nationalist P*ss*ng contest that caused those wars. They have tried to take over the world multiple times. We've helped rebuild our defeated enemies at our own cost, and returned their countries back to their people, and yet somehow American and its people are the arrogant ones. Sorry I don't buy it.

Answer 9

An "American" is the generally accepted term. I suppose the federal nature of the USA, as a collection of individual states, may have made it more difficult for a name to develop.

Answer 10

The correct name for the country is "United States of America." A citizen from there is called an "American."

Some other countries have states too.