Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

“If we are going to rename things … this is the move,” Abbott wrote on X.

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the ...

More than a decade ago, a Democrat floated the idea as part of a rebuke of anti-immigrant legislation proposed in Mississippi.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Will the world follow? What will maps say if he does?

In a news conference at his Florida home, Trump said he wanted to change the name of the Gulf "pretty soon." A Mississippi ...

President-elect Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed the “Gulf of America.” ...

What's in a name? President-elect Donald Trump held a presser on Tuesday where he rambled off many statements — but one that ...

Claims that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to rename the Gulf of Mexico — the ocean basin that borders the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida — the ...

Has renaming the Gulf of Mexico come up before?Yes. In 2012, a member of the Mississippi Legislature proposed a bill to ...

It's not the first time renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has come up. In 2012, Democrat state Rep. Steve Holland of Mississippi proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

President-elect Donald Trump suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico after the U.S. But can he really do that? Here's how place names are determined.