Name for Mormon state in OTL Utah that isn't "Utah" or "Deseret"?

As mentioned previously, it's very likely that the state could get its name choice overridden. That's what happened with Washington state, after all. The delegation proposed that the territory be named Columbia (for obvious reasons), but the US Congress didn't like that, and preferred 'one of the beautiful native names'. Not quoting, as I don't remember the exact quote, but it's a rough paraphrase. Failing that, as Washington doesn't have many native names that appealed to the Congress, they quickly took to a name to honor a former US statesman, in that case, Washington.

For Utah, it'd likely be (in a roughly similar case) that the state would follow that same trend in Congress. I think you can justify a different name, but it just becomes a lot more difficult.
 
We could just do an alternative state in which Utah is never carved off from Nevada, thus the state would be named 'Nevada' but be bigger.

It's the other way around. Nevada was carved off from what was originally the Utah Territory.
 
Would a Biblical name really have been turned down by Congress in those days? I can picture them denying an explicitly Mormon name in the 1800s, but I don't see them turning down an explicitly Christian name if that's what the residents want.
 
Maybe Abundatia? Spanish for Bountiful is Abundante, so maybe this could be it if the Mormons get more converts from local Western populations and less from out East? Or maybe a later statehood? I dunno, just throwing it out there.
 
I don't get the people here saying that the US wouldn't have allowed a religious state name. A Mormon state name, maybe not. But religious freedom in the early US was more like religious tolerance. The country was pretty much understood to be a Christian nation that just happened to allow people of other religions to be citizens.
 
Maybe Abundatia? Spanish for Bountiful is Abundante, so maybe this could be it if the Mormons get more converts from local Western populations and less from out East? Or maybe a later statehood? I dunno, just throwing it out there.

What local Western populations, since they were all American Indians? Mormons go to Mexico first (like a lot did in OTL) then go to Utah?

I got it North New Mexico

Shouldn't that be Northwest New Mexico since it barely borders New Mexico anyway?

I don't get the people here saying that the US wouldn't have allowed a religious state name. A Mormon state name, maybe not. But religious freedom in the early US was more like religious tolerance. The country was pretty much understood to be a Christian nation that just happened to allow people of other religions to be citizens.

Because to most people in the 19th century, Mormons are the wrong sort of Christians (if they are considered Christians to begin with) and thus shouldn't be allowed to use a Biblical name for a state which might be monopolised by them.
 
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