Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in taming wild horses. Staten Island is named after the model Dorothy Staten, and Manhatan is named for the Cold War A-Bomb test project.