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I 1507 skabte den tyske [[kartograf]] [[Martin Waldseemüller]] et verdenskort, hvor han gav landene på den vestlige halvkugle navnet [[Amerika|"America"]], efter den italienske opdagelsesrejsende og kartograf [[Amerigo Vespucci]] ({{lang-la|Americus Vespucius}}).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-24-america-turns-500_N.htm?csp=34 |title=Cartographer Put 'America' on the Map 500 years Ago |work=USA Today |location =Washington, D.C. |date=24. april 2007 |agency=Associated Press |accessdate=30. november 2008}}</ref> Det første vidnesbyrd på skrift om navnet "Amerikas Forenede Stater" ({{lang-en|United States of America}}) er fra et brev dateret 2. januar, 1776, skrevet af [[Stephen Moylan]], [[George Washington]]s [[adjudant]] og Muster-Master General i [[den kontinentale hær]] (officer der står for mønstring af soldater). Brevet, hvori Moylan udtrykte sit ønske om at rejse med "myndighed fra Amerikas Forenede Stater" til Spanien for at søge hjælp til revolutionen, henvendte sig til [[oberstløjtnant]] [[Joseph Reed (politiker)|Joseph Reed]].<ref>DeLear, Byron (July 4, 2013) [http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0704/Who-coined-United-States-of-America-Mystery-might-have-intriguing-answer Who coined 'United States of America'? Mystery might have intriguing answer.] "Historians have long tried to pinpoint exactly when the name 'United States of America' was first used and by whom... ...This latest find comes in a letter that Stephen Moylan, Esq., wrote to Col. Joseph Reed from the Continental Army Headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., during the Siege of Boston. The two men lived with Washington in Cambridge, with Reed serving as Washington's favorite military secretary and Moylan fulfilling the role during Reed's absence." ''Christian Science Monitor'' (Boston, MA).</ref><ref>Touba, Mariam (November 5, 2014) [http://blog.nyhistory.org/coined-phrase-united-states-america-may-never-guess/ Who Coined the Phrase 'United States of America'? You May Never Guess] "Here, on January 2, 1776, seven months before the Declaration of Independence and a week before the publication of Paine's ''Common Sense'', Stephen Moylan, an acting secretary to General George Washington, spells it out, 'I should like vastly to go with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain' to seek foreign assistance for the cause." ''New-York Historical Society Museum & Library''</ref><ref>Fay, John (July 15, 2016) [http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/The-forgotten-Irishman-who-named-the-United-States-of-America.html The forgotten Irishman who named the 'United States of America'] "According to the NY Historical Society, Stephen Moylan was the man responsible for the earliest documented use of the phrase "United States of America." But who was Stephen Moylan?" ''IrishCentral.com''</ref>
Den tidligste kendte offentliggørelse af udtrykket "Amerikas Forenede stater" er i et anonymt essay i avisen ''[[The Virginia Gazette]]'' i Williamsburg, Virginia den 6. april 1776.<ref>{{cite journal|title="To the inhabitants of Virginia," by A PLANTER.'' Dixon and Hunter's. April 6, 1776, Williamsburg, Virginia. Letter is also included in Peter Force's ''American Archives'' |url=http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGIssueThumbs.cfm?IssueIDNo=76.DH.16|issue=1287|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219053616/http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGIssueThumbs.cfm?IssueIDNo=76.DH.16|archivedate=19. december 2014|volume=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Rusty |last=Carter |url =http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-vg-usa-first-0818-20120818,0,4983868.story |title =You read it here first |newspaper =The Virginia Gazette |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822051820/http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-vg-usa-first-0818-20120818,0,4983868.story |archivedate=22. august 2012 |date =18. august 2012 |deadurl=yes |quote=He did a search of the archives and found the letter on the front page of the April 6, 1776, edition, published by Hunter & Dixon.}}</ref> Det andet udkast af [[Articles of Confederation|Konføderationsartiklerne]] fra 17. juni 1776, udarbejdet af [[John Dickinson]], erklærede "Navnet på denne konføderation skal være 'Amerikas Forenede Stater.'"<ref name="safire">{{cite news|last1=Safire|first1=William|title=On Language; Name That Nation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/05/magazine/on-language-name-that-nation.html|accessdate=15. marts 2016|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|publisher=New York Times|date=5. juli 1998}}</ref> Den endelige version af artiklerne, der blev sendt til ratificering af staterne i 1777, indeholder sætningen "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'".<ref>{{cite book|author=Mary Mostert|title=The Threat of Anarchy Leads to the Constitution of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jntSQ-yn66AC&pg=PA18|year=2005|publisher=CTR Publishing, Inc|page=18|isbn=978-0-9753851-4-2}}</ref> [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jeffersen]] skrev i juni 1776 udtrykket "AMERIKAS FORENEDE STATER" udelukkende med store bogstaver i overskriften på hans "oprindelige rå udkast" til [[USA's uafhængighedserklæring|Uafhængighedserklæringen]]<ref>DeLear, Byron (August 16, 2012). [http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0816/Who-coined-the-name-United-States-of-America-Mystery-gets-new-twist#disqus_thread "Who coined the name 'United States of America'? Mystery gets new twist."] ''Christian Science Monitor'' (Boston, MA).</ref><ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html |title=Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence |publisher = Princeton University |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805235246/http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html |archivedate=5. august 2004 |year =2004 |deadurl= yes}}</ref> Dette udkast til dokumentet var ukendt indtil 21. juni 1776, og det er uklart om det er skrevet før eller efter Dickinson brugte begrebet i sit udkast af Konføderationsartiklerne fra 17. juni.<ref name="safire" /> <!--Titlen var ændret grafisk til "Den enstemmige deklaration af de tretten 'united States of America'" i den endelige 4. juli version af Uafhængighedserklæringen .<!--Do not uppercase "united" here: it is unambiguously lowercased in the Declaration--><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html |title=The Charters of Freedom |publisher=National Archives |accessdate=20. juni 2007}}</ref>--> Forfatningens [[præambel]] erklærer at den "...fastsætter denne forfatning for Amerikas Forenede Stater
Den korte udgave "United States" ("Forenede Stater") er også standard. Andre almindelige udgaver er "U.S.", "USA" og "America". I hverdagssprog bruges også "U.S. of A." og internationalt "the States" (dansk "Staterne"). "[[Columbia (navn)|Columbia]]" var et populært navn i poesi og sange fra sent i det 18. århundrede, opkaldt efter [[Christopher Columbus]]; det forekommer i navnet "[[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]]".<ref name="Brokenshire1">{{cite book|author=Doug Brokenshire (Stanford University)|title=Washington State Place Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XI52I8zI_AC&pg=PA49|year=1996|publisher=Caxton Press|isbn=978-0-87004-562-2|page=49}}</ref>
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