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Two years after the founding of the settlement then known as ”Losantiville”, Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, changed its name to ”Cincinnati”, possibly at the suggestion of the surveyor Israel Ludlow, in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati. St. Clair was at the time president of the Society, made up of Continental Army officers of the Revolutionary War. The club was named for Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a dictator in the early Roman Republic who saved Rome from a crisis and then retired to farming because he did not want to remain in power, becoming a symbol of Roman civic virtue.

Namnet kommer av Cincinnatusorden, vilken i sin tur fick sitt namn av den romerske diktatorn Cincinnatus.

Staden nämns också många gånger i serien Våra bästa år, som en stad många rymmer till.