It's actually Commander that will add the name to your logs... and it will pick a name at random from all the names listed for a particular class. Unfortunately there's no way to make it distinguish between ships of different nations in the same class. The game doesn't keep a record of which nation spawned a ship, so even if there were a way to filter the choices by nation within a particular class, Commander wouldn't have the info necessary to do that. The class designation [COFlower] is all it has to work with.
One "solution" would be to create a duplicate ship class of a different name in data\Sea for US Flower class ships only, then have that class spawn from the American roster and let the original one spawn from the British roster only. But that adds another ship that the game has to load and if you did it for every ship class that includes more than one nation... BIG extra drain on your system.
The other workaround is to keep two different ShipNames.cfg files, one for the early part of the war and one for after the US enters the fray. "USS" ships can be removed from the mixed-nation classes in the first list and left in the second list. That way they would never show up in your logs until you switched the files after Dec 1941.
Edit: I should add that doing this can end up being a LOT of work. Depending on how Steve has the ships sorted in the original list, it can involve a lot of renumbering, because they have to be listed as 0001, 0002, 0003 and so on without skipping a number otherwise it fouls things up.
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