name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11148)
noun: (historical, US) Those parts of the United States comprising states rather than territories.
noun: (Channel Islands) The parliament of either of the two Channel Islands countries: the States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey.
noun: (informal, chiefly outside of the US) Short for United States. [(in the plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.]