Just asking.
And probably better in GD, mods since no factual answer. Sorry.
Only if future people cannot spell.
Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.
In other words, so what if it did?
I can guarantee it won’t be.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
No. They’d at least pick out a more euphonious name, perhaps honoring a specific Indigenous person, if they were to change the name. But I find this, assuming Ohio’s and Columbus’s continued existence as part of the United States of America, to be extremely unlikely. Just a general name change somewhere in the future? Wouldn’t necessarily bet against it, given enough time. But, even in that case, your name would be way down low on the list of possibilities.
And DC, will it become District of Indigenia?
Interesting piece of trivia: Washington State once considered the name Columbia, but rejected it because it would be too easily confused with DC.
Or District of Corruption. 
The most corrupt people in the District of Columbia are chosen to go there by all the good people around the country. If they are more corrupt than the norm—which I doubt—people should own their responsibility for it.
♫ That’s nobody’s business but the Turks… ♪
Let’s face it, Columbus was a jerk but shouldn’t we at least honor him for being the first Modern European to discover the new world?
Doesn’t matter to me. Ymmv.
I don’t see any reason why we should honor him for that. We can and do honor him for that, as of now, but there’s no good reason to make honoring people mandatory.
Most of the early explorers were questionable characters. The natives that killed and ate the hearts out of French missionaries were simply doing their job. Almost any great leader or prominent figure of the “Good Old Days” was most likely guilty of some interesting violations of what we consider right today.
“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” -L.P. Hartley
Columbus supposedly to his dying day, for example, blindly refused to admit that he had not found the route to India and China. Whatever his motivations and misinterpretations of geography, he was the first person to sail off west and find a continent or two that Europe up to then knew nothing about. If results count, that should matter. Lewis and Clark were simply civil servants hired to do a job, but we remember them for the massive survey and one of the early continental crossings. Henry Hudson was looking for a way to the Orient, like Columbus - but his name is remembered in a river and a giant bay plus assorted other names all over the continent. The Duke of York and the Duke or Orleans, Charlotte, Carolina, Mary, George, St. Louis, and assorted others were prominent in Europe and never set foot in the areas of the “new world” named for them. (IIRC, Penn however did.) There is no connection except the classics between assorted names in Europe and America like Memphis, Syracuse, Ithica, or Salem (Jerusalem).
This does not even take into account prominent early (European) Americans with places named after them. If we are to rename one or another of these , who is to say whose crime is so heinous that it must be renamed? Certainly anyone of any prominence in the South probably owned some slaves if only as housekeepers, so prepare to rename the entire South. For those who did not own slaves, I’m sure we could find some offense or writing that would merit a retraction of their naming right.
I suggest we leave history where it is.
What’s to honor? He used other people’s money to fund the expedition, landed in the Bahamas thinking it was India, and was a complete asshole to the people who already lived there. We’re not talking Elon Musk here. We’re not even talking Dr. Bronner.
As I’ve posted before over the years, I’m waiting for Nativeamericanaoplis, Nativeamericana.
So we will raise Amerigo to the prominence he deserves, the clever little Italian?
Canada has already done this properly. See the Canadian Heritage Minute commercial… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKr-D5VDBU
[Scene - landing party on beach…]
Priest: “What do you call this land?” (sweeps hand across)
Chief: “Kanada-ka-heh”
Captain Cartier: “Very well, we shall call this land ‘Canada’.”
Common Sailor: “I think he means the village over there…”
Priest: “Nonsense. He means the land is called Canada.”
Captain: “Yes, Canada it is.”
Common Sailor [muttering]: “But I’m sure it means ‘the houses, the village over there…’”
At least Cook didn’t end up calling a whole continent “Kangaroo”…
I don’t think it’s much of a debate either. Moved to IMHO.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
We are not changing history, just the name of things. We change the name of things all the time for a variety of reasons.
Personally, I never liked naming things after people to begin with.