Why don't more timelines have Avalon as the name of the British New World?

Avalon (/ˈævəˌlɒn/; Latin: Insula Avallonis, Old French Avalon, Welsh: Ynys Afallon, Ynys Afallach; literally meaning "the isle of fruit [or apple] trees") is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudo-historical account Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain") as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. Avalon was associated from an early date with mystical practices and figures such as Morgan le Fay.

That sounds badass and is located west of Britain. Why don't more alternate history have that name.
 
Naming land after the monarch or his favorites is safe and easy, and may well be a condition of the royal charter that gives you the land.

Name it after Avalon, and what's your message? Do you long for an older, nobler Britain? Saxon, or Norman? Are you slyly suggesting to the king's enemies that you support some older claimant to the throne? Are you hearkening to paganry, or popery, or high churchmanship?

Lots of questions to answer when you're across the ocean and the king is having poison whispered in his ear. Safer to stroke his ego.
 
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