Re: I knew an Arizona ...
I know a Kansas. Not only know him, I'm related to him, a cousin a few times removed. Age 19. He has a brother named Xavier. (he's 14.)
The western U.S. states sound kind of romantic to me. Not the Canadian provinces so much. no-one called their child Saskatchewan, nor should they!
And the eastern provinces ...New Brunswick? Though some people use Nova, as in Nova Scotia.