It's not just America, and English.<p>There used to be (sometimes rather insane) niche dictionaries like reverse dictionaries, specific terminology dictionaries, hyper-specific ones like "A dictionary of "Names for inhabitants"[1] that catalogued 6000 local/specific names for people of different places and so on.<p>Some of them have moved online, but more often than not they are maintained by people who just collected some words on a page (like all the "chose the name for your baby, 10 000 names" lists) with no system or context.<p>And the world is ever so slightly worse off because of this.<p>[1] Yup. Published in the USSR. See for yourself here, in Russian: <a href="https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/slovnazvanii/text.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/slovnazvanii/text.pdf</a> This stems from the fact that it's not immediately obvious how to form a proper adjective from a place name in Russian