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The reason why the USN named the bulk of its oilers after rivers was the idea that they were quenching the thirst of its ships...that and they kinda wanted to bring back some old names from back in the day when it had a fair percentage of its ships named after rivers. Besides oilers were...

We already name the bulk of our carriers and all of our destroyers after people, plus a fair few ships in other ship types. Is naming oilers after the traditional naming scheme of rivers such a bad thing? Hell a few of the names Oilers would use have been around since the 1800s

Honestly in all likelihood what the later ships end up being named depends on who controls the office of the Secretary of the Navy who is the person who sends the list of recommended ship names for Congress for their approval(mind you I imagine most of the time a good 80% of Congress can't be...

Actually as related to Harvey Milk the USN is planning on naming an oiler after him. Although I suspect that they would rather name the members of the John Lewis class oilers after the traditional naming scheme of rivers instead of civil rights leaders but that's one Obama era decision Trump...

Or the Blackhawk and Chinook choppers. In fact as I recall the majority of the Army's helicopter throughout its history of having them have been named after Native American peoples and tribes. Plus a fair few states are also named after what the Native Americans called them. For example Utah

As I recall the USN already has a Burke named after her