What do they all have in common?
Every single one of them had a large body of water named after it before America did. Let that sink all the way in, down to the bottom.
President Trump: Thank you sir! IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME!
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The gulf isn't named after us. It's named America which includes Canada to Argentina. "The Americas". Mexico is also in America. Now we could call it the gulf of the United States. Then it would be named exclusively after us.
...aaaannd we're done
Trump didn't name it after Canada, Argentina or Mexico
We should also note that the County of Ontario (Canada is the 51st state after all), the City of Erie, PA, and the State of Michigan have large bodies of water named after them.
Oh yeah, there are LOTS more; I was just focusing on countries for comparison
Don't forget the states named after rivers.
Before 1776, the colonies were called the American Colonies because they were colonies in the region of America. Sometimes called North American colonies. The America name referred to the continent of North America, which also includes Canada and central America. There's no comparison as an example but imagine if Phillipines and Indonesia renamed themselves the Unified Islands of Asia. That doesn't mean they are all of Asia because Asia is a much larger region than then. Technically the region that Canada and Mexico resides in, and the Carribean and South America are all "The Americas". Because that's the name of the 2 continents...
BTW the name America comes from Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.
There is Gulf of America (Amerikanlahti in Finnish) in Hartola, Finland. I can't find information when it was named but probably decades ago.