- Alki - Chinook Jargon for "by & by"
- Bogachiel - "muddy waters" or "gets riley after rain"
- Cathlamet - Chinook Jargon - "stone"
- Chelan - from Tsill-ane, "deep water"
- Chico - named for Chief Chico
- Chikamin - Chinook Jargon "metal, ore"
- Chilliwack - "going back up" or "quieter water at the head"
- Chimicum - from Chimicum tribe
- Chinook - from Tsinuk tribe
- Chuckanut - uncertain
- Clallam - from S'kallam tribe, "brave people"
- Cle Elum - "swift water"
- Colchuck - Chinook Jargon for "cold water or ice"
- Copalis - tribe called Chepalis by Lewis & Clark
- Cosho peak - Chinook Jargon "hog/ pig"
- Cowlitz - "seeker" in a spiritual sense
- Dabob - uncertain
- Dewatto - from Du-a-to, "home of evil spirits who make men crazy"
- Dosewallips - from Dos-wail-opsh, a man in Twana legend that was turned into a mountain
- Duckabush - from dux yabu's, "place of crooked-jaw salmon"
- Elwha - "elk"
- Enetai - Chinook Jargon for "crossing" or "across"
- Entiat - Chinook Jargon "rushing water"
- Hamma Hamma - from Hab'nab, a local village and marsh reed
- Hoh - from a band of natives of the Quillayute tribe, "the southern river"?
- Hoquiam - from Ho-qui-umpts, "hungry for wood"
- Humptulips - either "chilly region" or "hard to pole"
- Hyak - Chinook Jargon for "hurry"
- Illahee - Chinook Jargon for "earth" or "country"
- Ilwaco - named for Chief El-wak-ko
- Issaquah - uncertain, maybe "the sound of birds" or is-qu-ah "snake"
- Kalaloch - Quinalt language, "a good place to land"
- Kalama - from Calama, "pretty maiden"
- Kennewick - from Kin-i-wack, "grassy place"
- Kitsap - Chief K'tsap, chief and medicine man that fought settlers 1855-1856, "brave"
- Klahowya - Chinook Jargon for "howdy" or "hello"
- Klickitat - Chinook Jargon for "beyond"
- Klipsan Beach - Chinook Jargon "sunset"
- Klone - Chinook Jargo "three"
- Klootchman Rock - Chinook Jargon "female"
- Kulla Kulla Lake - Chinook Jargon "geese"
- Kumtux - Chinook Jargon "to know or understand"
- La Push - Chinook Jargon for "mouth"
- Lake Ozette - from Ho-seth, a Makah settlement
- Lemolo - Chinook Jargon for "wild & untamed"
- Lilliwaup - Twana for "inlet"
- Lummi Island - from Lummi tribe, "old woman or widow"
- Makah - "cape people"
- Manitou Beach - Algonquin for "spirit"
- Melakwa Lake - Chinook Jargon "mosquito"
- Mesahchie - Chinook Jargon "evil, nasty, malign"
- Moclips - Quinalt and describes a place where maidens were sent to undergo puberty rites
- Mowich Lake (on Mt. Ranier) - "deer"
- Mt. Shuksan - Skagit for "rocky & precipitous"
- Naches - "plenty of water"
- Neah Bay - named for Chief Dee-ah of the Makah tribe
- Nespelem - Chinook Jargon "large flat meadow"
- Newhalem - "goat snare"
- Nisqually - squally imitates the sound of breezes blowing through grassland
- Nooksack - from Nooksack tribe, "mountain men" or Noot, "people" Saat, "bracken fern", or "noisy water"
- Ohanapecosh Hot Springs - "Oh, look!"
- Okanogan - "rendezvous"
- Olalla - Cinook Jargon Olallie, "many berries"
- Omak - from Omache, "good medicine"
- Pilchuck - Chinook Jargon for "red water"
- Potlatch - Chinook Jargon for "to give"
- Puyallup - from Puyallup tribe, "generous people"
- Queets - "people of the first skin" or " people made of earth/dirt/mud"
- Quilcene - from Quil-ceed-o-bish, Twana for "salt-water people"
- Quinault - from Kwinaithl, a large nearby village
- Samish - from Samish tribe, originally from Samens, "hunter"
- Sammamish - from Samena, "hunter" & Mish, "people"
- Satsop - from Sats-a-pish, "on a stream"
- Seattle - named for Chief Sealth of Duwamish & Suquamish tribes
- Seiku - "calm water"
- Sequim - from Such-e-kwai-ing, "Quiet water"
- Skagit - "hide from the enemy"?
- Skamania - "swift waters"
- Skamoka - "smoke over the water"
- Skokomish - from S'kaw, "fresh water" & Mish, "people"
- Skookumchuck River - Chinook Jargon Skookum, "strong" & chuck, "water"
- Skykomish - "inland people"
- Snoqualmie - based on Sdoh-kwahlb for "moon", the legendary source of the tribe
- Sol Duc - "sparkling water"
- Squaxin - from Skwaks-namis, "alone people"
- Stehekin - "the way"
- Steilacoom - from Tchil-ac-cum, "pink flower"
- Stillaguamish - "river people"
- Suquamish - d’suq’wub meaning "place of clear salt water"
- Tacoma - from Lusshootseed word Teq-ube?, "snow-covered mountain"
- Tahuya - from Ta-hoi, "that done"
- Tarboo - "windy"
- Tatoosh - Chinook Jargon "breasts, chest"
- Tillacum - Chinook Jargon for "friend"
- Tokeland - named for Chief Toke, the town drunk & fastest canoe paddler
- Toppenish - from Qapuishlema, "people from the foot of the hills"
- Tukwila - "land of hazelnuts"
- Tulalip - from Duh-hlay-lup, "small mouth bay"
- Tumwater - Chinook Jargon Thum thum, the sound of a human heart that a waterfall mimicked
- Twana - "no salmon run up" because cursed by a transformer, or "a portage"
- Twisp - Chinook Jargon "yellowjacket"
- Utsalady - "land of berries"
- Wakepish - Chinook Jargon "no fish"
- Waketickeh Creek - Chinook Jargon "don't want or need"
- Walla Walla - Nez Perce word Walatsa for "running water" or "little rapid river"
- Wapato - chinook Jargon for "potato"
- Wauna - "strong & mighty"
- Wenatchee - Yakima word Wenatchul for "river flowing from canyon"
- Whatcom - named for Nooksack chief, "noisy water"
- Willapa - from Ah-whil-lapah, indian tribe
- Wishkah - Chehalis word Kwish-kahl, "Stinking water"
- Wishram - Chinook Jargon "flea or louse"
- Wollochet Bay - "squirting clams"
- Wynoochee River - "shifting"
- Yacolt - "haunted place"
- Yakima - either "runaway", "big belly", "pregnant one", or "black bears"
- Yelm - from Chelm, "heat waves rising from the earth"
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