Who coined the name United States of America ??

Answer 1

I'm surprised no one knows this answer. The first time the term United States of America appears in the Declaration of Independence and it was coined by Thomas Jefferson (unless Benjamin Franklin or John Adams gave him the idea since they helped with some of the wordage in the document.) But until we learn otherwise the credit should go to Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 2

I don't know where the United States part comes from, probably the founding fathers, but America was definitely not named after Amerigo Vespucci.
The land was named after a Welshman named Richard Am Eryk, who was a wealthy businessman that lived in Bristol, England. Am Eryk was the biggest investor in the second transatlantic voyage of Giovanni Caboto, an Italian navigator that had lived in London since 1484. Caboto reached Labrador in 1497 (two years before Vespucci got to the continent) and mapped what was to become the Canadian eastern coast. Being the money behind the trip, Am Eryk would expect any discoveries to be named after him. The word America being used to describe this land first appears in a calendar in Bristol for that year, and the name was used by the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller in his great map of the continent in 1507. He probably saw the name in the maps of Caboto.
Vespucci never reached North America, although he did extensively map the South American coast. This land was never named America by him as new lands were never named after a person's first name, always their surname. If he had named the land, it would have been Vespuccia (or something similar).

Answer 3

North and South America are widely accepted as having been named after Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a new world, previously undiscovered by Europeans.

United States of America was then put together by the founding fathers. From history class I recall there was a debate over what the name was and several versions were put forth. I cannot find nor recall who actually came up with United States as we were already called America by then.

Answer 4

Thomas Paine. The first official use of the name was in the Declaration of Independence. Then, the Articles of Confederation were drafted, and they specifically said that the country would be known as "The United States of America".

Answer 5

Our founding fathers penned the terminology of the United States, because we were a group of various states who joined governments to unite as one. The individual states still maintained their individual state's rights.

Answer 6

well when the country was first discovered by explorers, the man's name who drew the first maps of the continent was Amerigo, for these reasons he termed the land "land of Amerigo" or America. the "United States" part really only came after the country was colonized into seperate sanctions, but agreements were made to form as one country

but the guy above me said it better, haha :)