| 100% | DKNY | 4 | Fashion label headquartered in Manhattan (as its name suggests) |
| 45% | DKNY | 4 | Fashion label based in Manhattan |
| 41% | GOBI | 4 | Its name translates as "waterless place" in Mongolian |
| 39% | AMES | 4 | NASA research facility in California (not Iowa, as its name would suggest) |
| 38% | RAIN | 4 | Its name in Botswana is the same as the word for "money" |
| 38% | SUNNYVALE | 9 | California city whose name suggests it has fair weather / Worker in ... |
| 36% | GANYMEDE | 8 | Name picked by Rosalind as a boy in As You Like It |
| 34% | LEMONSOLE | 9 | *Fish that doesn't taste like its name suggests |
| 34% | EMMA | 4 | It dethroned Sophia as the #1 baby girl's name in the U.S. in 2014 |
| 34% | NYT | 3 | Newspaper headquartered in Manhattan: Abbr. |
| 34% | CUBANO | 6 | Sandwich invented in Florida, despite what its name suggests |
| 33% | MINUTEWALTZ | 11 | Piece longer than its name suggests |
| 33% | MINI | 4 | BMW subsidiary that’s bigger than its name suggests |
| 33% | ZARA | 4 | Fashion retailer headquartered in Spain |
| 32% | STUSSY | 6 | Fashion house with an umlaut in its name |
| 32% | MASTHEAD | 8 | It names names in a newspaper |
| 32% | ONEARTH | 7 | ... ___ as it is in heaven |
| 32% | ONEARTH | 7 | "... ___ as it is in heaven" |
| 32% | COSMOPOLITAN | 12 | Fashion magazine for women that has been in publication since 1886, and is often referred to by its shorter name |
| 32% | PERIWINKLE | 10 | Flower with a color the same as its name |
| 32% | DKNY | 4 | Fashion label based in the Big Apple |
| 32% | GOBI | 4 | Its name means "waterless place" in Mongolian |
| 31% | DKNY | 4 | Fashion brand based in Manhattan |
| 31% | TRES | 4 | Cuban instrument with six strings (twice as many as its name suggests) |
| 31% | IWOJIMA | 7 | Its name in Japanese translates to "Sulfur Island" |
| 31% | DKNY | 4 | Fashion label with a Manhattan HQ |
| 31% | THETIMES | 8 | Paper headquartered in midtown Manhattan, familiarly |
| 31% | ARMANI | 6 | Name in high fashion |
| 31% | ITT | 3 | Defense contractor whose stock symbol is the same as its name |
| 31% | CASTLE | 6 | Nathan Fillion crime drama with a chess piece as its name |