 or go to our website at www.jerrystuartusa.com and email our office. God bless you. When asked the question, who gave America its name, the two most popular answers are Christopher Columbus or the Indians, but both are wrong. In the early 1500s, an Italian explorer by the name of Amerigo Vespucci made several voyages to our continent, and in 1503 he wrote a book about this new land.