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Not sure if this one goes far enough but people from Los Angeles are not called "Los Angelians" or "Los Angelites" but simply "Angelenos".
Medellin is Paisa. This is also a slightly derogatory name used among Mexicans/Mexican Americans
I lived in LA for 9 years, Los Angelenos is the common term. I don't think it counts, because for all intents and purposes the name of the city is still in there and recognizable. I think if they were referred to as Los Angapians, that would be more similar to the examples in my op. Seriously though, where the heck did, Liverpudlian, Glaswegian and Haligonian come from? lol
People who live in Cambridge, MA are called Cantabrigians.
Really?!?!?!? Now that's exactly what I was looking for! The city is not called Cantabridge. Why aren't they called Cambridgians or Cambridgers? Excellent! Thanks!
These may be explained by the etymology of the word or its counterpart in a native language or in Latin/Greek. Here in Brazil we have a lot of similar examples: "Soteropolitano" for Salvador (="saviour"), "Fluminense" for the state of Rio de Janeiro (from Latin "flumen", which means "river"), and so on.
São Paulo: Paulistano
East End of London: Cockney
Las Vegas: Las Vegan
Munich: Münchner
Guangzhou: Cantonese
Mexico City: Capitalino
Warsaw: Varsovian
Monaco: Monegasque
Hamburg: Hamderber
Really?!?!?!? Now that's exactly what I was looking for! The city is not called Cantabridge. Why aren't they called Cambridgians or Cambridgers? Excellent! Thanks!
The term is derived from Cantabrigia, a medieval Latin name for Cambridge invented on the basis of the Anglo-Saxon name Cantebrigge. There's even a bar in Cambridge named the "Cantab Lounge", which is a play on the term, and a group of newspapers named the "Tab", started at the U of Cambridge (UK), which also uses the Cantabrigian term. In fact, the school's rivals at Oxford use the term "Tab" as a term of derision for their longtime foes.
A lot of people seem to be confusing nicknames, regional names or popular names for demonyms. The OP is looking for official demonyms.
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It's from Latin
