This is a list of Oklahoma county name etymologies.
Alphabetical, by first letter
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- Beaver County, Oklahoma: Beaver is named for its county seat of Beaver, Oklahoma and the Beaver River, which flows through the county.
- Beckham County, Oklahoma: Beckham was named for John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, the thirty-fifth governor of Kentucky.
- Blaine County, Oklahoma: Blaine is named for James Gillespie Blaine, the American statesman, secretary of state, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
- Bryan County, Oklahoma: Bryan is named for William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer and presidential candidate.
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- Caddo County, Oklahoma: Caddo is named for the Caddo Native American tribe.
- Canadian County, Oklahoma: Canadian County is named for the Canadian River, which flows through the county.
- Carter County: Carter is named for Ben W. Carter, a captain in the U. S. Army and a Cherokee who married and settled among the Chickasaws; his son was a state senator for over forty years following statehood.
- Cherokee County, Oklahoma: Cherokee is named for the Cherokee Native American tribe.
- Choctaw County, Oklahoma: Choctaw is named for the Choctaw Native American tribe.
- Cimarron County, Oklahoma: Cimarron is named for the Cimarron River which flows through the county. The river's name (formerly called by the Spanish, Río de los Carneros Cimarrón) is usually translated as River of the Wild Sheep.
- Cleveland County, Oklahoma: Cleveland is named for Stephen Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States.
- Coal County, Oklahoma: Coal is named for its county seat of Coalgate, Oklahoma and the coal that is mined in the area.
- Comanche County, Oklahoma: Comanche is named for the Comanche Native American tribe.
- Cotton County, Oklahoma: Cotton is probably named for the cotton that is farmed in the area.
- Craig County, Oklahoma: Craig is named for Granville Craig, a Cherokee leader.
- Creek County, Oklahoma: Creek is named for the Creek Native American tribe.
- Custer County, Oklahoma: Custer is named for George Armstrong Custer, the U. S. Army general famous for his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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- Garfield County, Oklahoma: Garfield is named for James Abram Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States.
- Garvin County, Oklahoma: Garvin is named for Samuel Garvin, a Chicksaw leader.
- Grady County, Oklahoma: Grady is named for Henry W. Grady, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
- Grant County, Oklahoma: Grant is named for Ulysses Simpson Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States.
- Greer County, Oklahoma: Greer is named for John Greer, a lieutenant governor of Texas.
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- Latimer County, Oklahoma: Latimer is named for James S. Latimer, an Oklahoma constitutional convention attendee.
- Le Flore County, Oklahoma: Le Flore is named for a prominent Choctaw family with French ancestry.
- Lincoln County, Oklahoma: Lincoln is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States.
- Logan County, Oklahoma: Logan is named for John Alexander Logan, the American Civil War general.
- Love County, Oklahoma: Love is named for Overton Love, a Chickasaw judge and early landowner, and his family.
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