list of place names of french origin in the united states

      List of place names of French origin in the United States GudangMovies21 Rebahinxxi LK21

      Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States). Others were named after early Americans of French, especially Huguenot, ancestry (Marion, Revere, Fremont, Lanier, Sevier, Macon, Decatur, etc.). Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial settlement (e.g. Baton Rouge, Detroit, New Orleans, Saint Louis). Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines, Juneau, Montgomery, Montpelier, Pierre, Richmond, Saint Paul) - not even counting Little Rock (originally "La Petite Roche") or Cheyenne (a French rendering of a Lakota word). Fifteen state names are either French words / origin (Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Vermont) or Native American words rendered by French speakers (Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin).
      The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks).


      Alabama


      Barbour County (named for James Barbour, 19th-century U.S. Senator from Virginia)
      Bay Minette (named for a French surveyor with the last name of Minet)
      Bayou la Batre ("Bayou of the Battery")
      Belle Fontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
      Belle Mina ("belle" meaning beautiful + mina)
      Bon Air ("Good Air")
      Bon Secour ("Good Rescue")
      Centreville (City-center, or Downtown. Note the "re" spelling of centre, as opposed to "er" as in center)
      Citronelle (named after the citrus trees)
      Daphne
      Dauphin Island (The island was originally named "Ile Dauphine" after Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, the Dauphine (crown princess) of France in 1711).
      DeArmanville
      Decatur (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Delchamps (named for a postmaster)
      Detroit
      Dozier ("D'osier" means "of wicker" in French.)
      Fayette County (for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
      Gasque (named for a state representative)
      Grand Bay
      Grande Batture Islands
      Isle aux Dames (Island of the ladies)
      Isle aux Herbes (Island of the herbs)
      LaFayette (for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lamar County (named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, former Confederate officer and U.S. Secretary of the Interior of French Huguenot descent)
      Lanett (for a settler named Lanet)
      Lapine ("rabbit")
      Le Moyne (The Monk, old spelling)
      Leroy ("le roi" meaning "king")
      Magnolia (named for the plant, which was named for botanist Pierre Magnol)
      Marion (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry)
      Mentone (after Menton)
      Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe)
      Mobile County
      Moulton (after a settler)
      Mon Louis (named for the nearby Mon Louis Island. The island was named by Nicholas Baudin, Sieur de Miragouin, in honor of his French native city Montlouis-sur-Loire)
      Ozark
      Perdue Hill
      Piedmont
      Semmes (for Raphael Semmes)
      Vinemont (from "Vigne Mont," meaning "Grape Mountain")


      Alaska


      Flambeau River
      Gastineau Channel named after John Gastineau, an English Civil Engineer and Surveyor with a French surname.: 361–362  Compare with Gatineau, Quebec.
      Juneau named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner: 480 
      La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay. Named originally in charts prepared by French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1786. La Chaussée means "causeway".
      Mount La Pérouse (3231 m) and La Pérouse Glacier in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, both named after French explorer and naval captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
      Latouche Island ("the touch")
      Lemesurier Island
      Mount Crillon (for Felix-Francois-Dorothee de Bretton, Comte de Crillon)


      Arizona


      Bellemont, Arizona ("beautiful mountain")
      Chevelon Creek
      Clemenceau (Named after the French prime minister during World War I)
      Picket Wire (Corruption of the French Purgatoire, "Purgatory")
      Peridot


      Arkansas


      Arkansas (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind")
      Antoine ("Anthony")
      Aurelle
      Auvergne (a French region)
      Barraque Township (named for Antoine Barraque, 19th-century landowner)
      Bauxite, Arkansas
      Bayou
      Bayou Meto, Arkansas County, Arkansas
      Bayou Meto, Lonoke County, Arkansas
      Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain)
      Beaudry
      Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place)
      Belleville ("Beautiful City")
      Bellefonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain)
      Boeuf ("Beef")
      Bonair (good air)
      Buie
      Burdette
      Cache
      Cadron ("sun dial")
      Calumet The French word for a Native American tobacco pipe.
      Calvin (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant)
      Champagnolle (meaning a person from Champagne)
      Chancel
      Chicot County (a stump)
      Claude
      Cloquet
      Cossatot River ("tomahawk")
      Dardanelle
      Darcy
      DeGray Lake ("sandstone")
      De Roche (of the rock)
      Deberrie
      Decatur
      Delaplaine (Of-the-plains, surname)
      Departee
      Devue
      Des Arc ("At the bend")
      Dumas (French surname, possibly for Alexandre Dumas)
      Ecore Fabre
      Fayetteville (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette)
      Fontaine ("Fountain", a surname)
      Fourche ("Pitchfork")
      Fourche Lafave
      Fourche Valley
      Francure
      Frenchman's Bayou
      Galla Rock (from "gallets," meaning pebbles)
      Gallatin
      Glazypeau Mountain (Anglicization of "Glaise à Paul," meaning "Paul's clay pit")
      Grand Glaise ("Large Clay")
      Gravette
      Guion, Arkansas (named for a railroad conductor of French-Canadian descent)
      La Fave ("bean")
      La Grue (the crane)
      La Grue Springs
      Lacrosse
      Ladelle
      Lafayette County
      LaGrange ("the barn" (possibly for the plantation of the Marquis de Lafayette))
      Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname)
      L'Aigle Creek ("the eagle")
      L'Anguille ("The Eel")
      Lapile ("a pile," possibly a surname)
      Larue (the street)
      Latour (the tower)
      Lave Creek
      Levesque ("Bishop", a common French-Canadian surname)
      L'Eau Frais Creek
      Macon (French city "Mâcon")
      Magnolia, Arkansas (named for the plant, which was named for the botanist Pierre Magnol)
      Marais Saline (saline marsh)
      Marche
      Maumee
      Maumelle (breasts)
      Monette
      Mont Sandels
      Montreal (royal mount)
      Moreau (feedbag, probably a family's proper name)
      Mount Magazine ("Magasin," meaning barn or warehouse)
      New Gascony (Gascony, France)
      Ozan, Arkansas
      Ozark (phonetic rendering of either aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows")
      Ozark Mountains as per immediately above
      Paris
      Paroquet
      Partain
      Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River)
      Pollard
      Prairie County ("prairie, meadow")
      Saline County
      Sans Souci (literally without concern)
      Segur (French city)
      Sevier County
      Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert, "covered way")
      Soudan
      St. Francis County
      Terre Noire (black earth)
      Terre Rouge (redland or red earth)
      Tollette
      Tully
      Urbanette
      Vallier (French surname)
      Vaucluse (French region)
      Vaugine Township (named for Francis Vaugine, 19th-century landowner)
      Vidette
      Villemont (named for Carlos de Villemont, 19th-century landowner)
      Villemont Township (named for Carlos de Villemont, 19th-century landowner)


      California


      Alsace (Region in France bordering Germany)
      Artois (named after Artois, France)
      Auburn
      Beaumont
      Bel Air ("Beautiful Air")
      Belfort ("Beautiful Fort")
      Belmont ("Beautiful Mount")
      Bettravia ("betterave," meaning beet)
      Bijou ("gem")
      Bonnefoy ("Good Faith")
      Bouquet Canyon
      Brisbane (French "brise" and Old English "bane," meaning bone)
      Butte County
      Chalfant
      Claremont ("clear mountain")
      Concord (from French "concorde" meaning agreement, harmony, or union)
      Coutolenc (after a French factory owner)
      Declezville (after a French factory owner)
      Delano (after Columbus Delano, a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
      Disneyland (after Walt Disney, a descendant of the Norman family d'Isigny (Isigny, Normandie, France))
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry)
      Friant (named for a sugar farmer)
      Gasquet (named for a settler from France)
      Giraud Peak
      Guerneville
      Huron
      Lafayette (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette)
      La Grange ("The Barn", after Lafayette's home in France)
      La Grange Reservoir
      La Porte ("The door")
      La Verne
      Lebec (Le bec = "the beak")
      Le Grand ("The Big")
      Montague (pointed hill)
      Montclair ("Clear Mountain")
      Montrose ("Rose Mountain")
      Nice (After French city of the same name)
      Nord ("North")
      Orleans
      Piedmont (French spelling of the Piedmont region of Italy)
      Richmond (After Virginian city of the same name with French origins)
      Rubidoux (named for Louis Rubidoux)
      Mount Rubidoux
      San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi, who had received that name because his mother was French or as a tribute to France)
      Sicard Flat
      Simmler
      Vichy Springs (After French city of the same name)


      Colorado


      Ault
      Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight" or View")
      Berthoud
      Berthoud Pass and town of Berthoud
      Bethune (named for Béthune)
      Bijou Creek (from bijoux meaning "jewel"; possibly also after Joseph Bijeau)
      Cache La Poudre River ("hide the powder" or "powder cache")
      Calumet
      De Beque
      Florissant (from "flowering")
      Fremont County (for John C. Fremont)
      Grand County
      Lafayette
      Lamar
      Laporte ("The Door", a common French Canadian surname)
      La Salle ("The Room", surname)
      Louisville (for a coal miner)
      Louviers (after Louviers by way of the town in Delaware)
      Lyons (a city in France)
      Mount Audubon (for John James Audubon)
      Montclair ("Bright or "Clear Mountain")
      Montrose (Rose-mount)
      Montrose County
      North and South Platte Rivers ("dull, shallow")
      Parachute
      Parachute Creek
      Platteville
      Poudre Park ("gunpowder")
      Purgatoire River
      St. Vrain Creek (after Ceran St. Vrain)
      Sublette
      Vernon


      Connecticut


      Ballouville
      Montville: 326 
      Pomfret Landing: 459 
      Vernon: 609 
      Versailles
      Versailles Pond in New London County


      Delaware


      Delaware named after Lord de la Warre (Anglo-Norman surname originally de la Guerre meaning; "of the war")
      Bellefonte ("beautiful fountain")
      Bellevue ("beautiful view")
      Granogue
      Guyencourt
      Magnolia
      Montchanin


      Florida


      Abbeville Road
      Amiens Way
      Antibes Street
      Avalon
      Barrineau Park
      Bayou George
      Belandville (failed "colony" in northern Santa Rosa County, approximately one mile south of its border with Escambia County, Alabama)
      Belle Glade ("beautiful" glade)
      Belle Isle ("beautiful" island)
      Belleview ("beautiful" view)
      Belfort Road
      Belmont
      Bermont
      Bordeaux Villages
      Boulogne (after the city in France)
      Brevard County
      Brittany
      Cambon
      Cannes Street
      Chancey
      Chantilly Acres
      Clermont
      Decatur Avenue
      Destin ("destiny")
      Dijon Drive
      DuBois Park
      Dupont
      DuPuis Reserve
      Duval County (named for William Pope DuVal)
      Eau Gallie ("rocky water")
      Eloise
      Fort Caroline
      Fontainebleau
      Frontenac
      Grenoble Drive
      Huguenot Lagoon
      Huguenot Memorial Park
      Isle of Normandy
      LaBelle ("The Beauty", "The Beautiful" or "Beautiful Woman")
      LaCrosse
      Lafayette County (after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lafayette (after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lafayette Oaks
      La Grange
      La Rochelle Drive
      Lake Beauclair
      Lake Lorraine
      Le Havre Drive
      Le Palais (named after Le Palais)
      Lorraine
      Lyons (derived from Lyon)
      Lyons Park
      Macon, Leon County
      Macon
      Marion County (after the Francis Marion)
      Marseilles
      Mascotte ("mascot")
      Metz Road
      Monet
      Montclair ("Bright Mountain")
      Montpelier Villages
      Montreal Drive
      Navarre (after Navarre)
      Navarre Beach
      Normandy Beach
      Normandy Estates
      Normandy Manor
      Normandy Shores
      Normandy Village
      Normandy, Duval County
      Orleans Lane
      Paris Lane
      Pass-a-Grille
      Pierre Lane
      Port Saint Lucie (Lucie is French for Lucy)
      Poitier Drive (derived from Poitiers)
      Provence
      Rennes Lane
      Ribault River (named for Jean Ribault leader of the Huguenot colony Fort Caroline in early Florida whose inhabitants were massacred by the Spanish)
      St. Cloud (after the Château de Saint-Cloud)
      Toulouse Lane
      Versailles


      Georgia


      Abbeville
      Beaulieu ("pretty place")
      Berrien County
      Bonaire ("good air")
      Clermont ("clear mountain")
      Decatur
      Decatur County
      Devereux, Georgia
      Du Pont (for the Du Pont family)
      Fannin County
      Fayette County (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fayetteville (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Girard (for Stephen Girard)
      LaFayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      LaGrange ("The Barn", the home of the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lamar County (for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar)
      Lanier County
      Laurens County (for John Laurens)
      Louisville (for Louis XVI): 139 
      Macon ("mason", named for Nathaniel Macon)
      Macon County("mason", named for Nathaniel Macon): 144 
      Marion (for Francis Marion): 147 
      Marion County (for Francis Marion)
      Moultrie (for William Moultrie)
      Valdosta (named after the French-speaking region of Val d'Aoste in the Italian Alps)


      Hawaii


      Fort DeRussy (named for General René Edward De Russy and his brother Lewis, soldiers of Huguenot ancestry)
      French Frigate Shoals
      La Pérouse Bay named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, first European to visit the island of Maui
      La Pérouse Pinnacle located in the French Frigate Shoals, Hawai'i
      Necker Island named for Jacques Necker


      Idaho


      Arbon
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Blanchard (French surname)
      Boise (from boisé, "Wooded")
      Bonneville County (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper and explorer)
      Bovard
      Bruneau (French surname)
      Cache ("hidden")
      Coeur d'Alene ("Heart of the Awl")
      Culdesac ("Dead End")
      Dubois ("of the wood")
      Fremont County
      Grandjean
      Grangeville ("barn city")
      Grasmere ("fat mother")
      Jacques
      Labelle
      Laclede
      La Fleur ("the Flower")
      Lake Pend Oreille ("hanging ear")
      Malad City (from malade, French for "sick")
      Michaud (French surname from Michel (Michael))
      Monteview
      Montour
      Montpelier
      Nez Perce County (from the Nez Perce Tribe's name "nez percé" meaning "pierced nose")
      Paris
      Payette (named after François Payette)
      Pierre's Hole
      Ponderay (from pend oreille, "earring")
      Simplot
      St. Maries
      Teton ("Teat")
      Thiard


      Illinois


      Illinois, French version of Illini, a local Native American tribe
      Illinois River
      Beaucoup Creek (plenty good)
      Belle Rive ("Beautiful Bank") (French military commander)
      Belleville ("Beautiful City")
      Belleview ("Beautiful View")
      Bellmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
      Bonpas Creek ("Good Step")
      Bourbon (named after the House of Bourbon)
      Bourbonnais (named for François Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trader)
      Bureau County ("Office"; named for trader Pierre de Bureau)
      Cache River (hidden river)
      Calumet City ("little reed," used to refer to peace pipes)
      Champaign (from Champaigne, a French surname)
      Chicago, although not a French place name in itself, shikaakwa or "wild onion" in the Native-American Miami-Illinois language, the pronunciation of the "chi" (as opposed to the "chi" as in China) is the result of early French settlement
      Claremont ("Clear Mountain")
      Colmar (after the Alsatian city)
      Creve Coeur ("Heartbreak"; early French fort)
      Decatur (named for Stephen Decatur)
      DePue (named for an early French fur trader by the name of De Pue)
      Des Plaines ("of the Plains")
      Des Plaines River
      Detroit ("Narrow Passage")
      Du Bois (from the woods)
      DuPage County
      DuPage River
      Du Quoin (name of an Illiniwek chief)
      Durand (named for Henri Durand, a railroader)
      Embarrass ("Predicament")
      Fayette County (after LaFayette)
      Fort de Chartres (named for Louis, duc de Chartres)
      Fort Massac (named for the Marquis de Massac)
      Girard (named for financier Stephen Girard)
      Hennepin (named in honor of the 17th-century French explorer Father Louis Hennepin)
      Joliet (named after explorer Louis Jolliet)
      La Clede, Illinois (named for Pierre Laclède)
      La Fayette
      La Grange ("The Barn")
      La Harpe (named for Bernard La Harpe, an explorer)
      La Moille
      La Moine River ("The Monk", after an early monastery)
      La Salle (named after explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. La Salle literally means "the Hall.")
      L'erable, Illinois ("the maples," Settled by French Canadians)
      Le Roy ("the King")
      Libertyville
      Lisle, Illinois
      Macon, Illinois
      Magnolia
      Marion (names for Francis Marion)
      Marseilles (after Marseille)
      Massac (French Minister)
      Menard County (after Pierre Menard)
      Meredosia ("reed marsh")
      Normandy
      Paris
      Peoria
      Pere Marquette River
      Prairie du Rocher ("Prairie of the Rock")
      Rochelle
      St. Anne (Anne is spelled in French. Founded by French-speaking Canadians. See Charles Chiniquy)
      St. Georges (Note: retains the silent "s" from the French)
      Ste. Marie
      Sublette
      Toulon
      Vergennes (named for Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes)
      Vermilion County
      Vermont ("Green Mountain")
      Versailles (for the French city and palace)


      Indiana


      Bourbon
      Clermont: 97 
      Decatur (named for Stephen Decatur): 39 
      Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur): 39 
      Delaware County
      De Motte ("the mound")
      Dubois County (named for Toussaint Dubois)
      Dupont
      Dunkirk
      Fayette
      Fayette County (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette): 52 
      Fremont
      French Lick
      Fugit
      Jay County
      La Crosse
      La Fontaine ("the fountain")
      La Porte (named by French explorers travelling up from the south, this area was the first clearing or "door" out of the heavy woods to the south.)
      La Porte County
      Lafayette (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette)
      LaGrange County
      Leroy
      Ligonier
      Marion County (named for Francis Marion): 98 
      Montpelier
      Napoleon
      Notre Dame ("Our Lady")
      Orleans
      Portage
      Saint Croix
      Saint Leon
      Saint Maurice (named for a Catholic bishop, Jacques-Maurice De Saint Palais): 291 
      St. Paul
      San Pierre: 294 
      Sedan (named for the French city): 150 
      Terre Haute ("High Ground")
      Vernon
      Versailles
      Vevay (named for the Swiss commune): 170 
      Vincennes (named for François Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes)


      Iowa


      Audubon (named for John James Audubon)
      Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain")
      Belleville
      Bellevue ("beautiful view")
      Belmond
      Belmont
      Bennezette
      Blanchard
      Bonaparte
      Bondurant
      Boyer
      Calumet
      Chariton
      Clarion
      Clermont
      Clutier
      Couler Valley ("To Flow," also namesake for the Couler Creek)
      Decatur City (named for Stephen Decatur)
      Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur)
      Des Moines 41°35′27″N 93°37′15″W (from Rivière des Moines, "River of the Monks", the river flowing through the city)
      Dubuque (named after explorer Julien Dubuque)
      Dumont (French surname)
      Durant (French surname)
      Fayette (town and county, named after the French Marquis de LaFayette who served in the Revolutionary War)
      Fontanelle
      Fort de la Trinité
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont)
      Giard
      Granville ("large town")
      Lafayette
      Lamont ("the mountain")
      La Grange ("The Barn")
      La Motte (named for Pierre La Motte)
      La Porte ("The Door")
      Le Claire (named for Antoine Le Claire)
      Le Grand ("The Great")
      Le Mars ("March")
      Le Roy ("The King", also a surname)
      Luzerne (after Lucerne)
      Lyons (named after the French city, Lyon)
      Magnolia
      Marion, Iowa (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War hero of a S. Carolinian French Huguenot family)
      Marquette (named for Jacques Marquette)
      Martelle
      Massena (named for André Masséna)
      Massilon (named for Jean Baptiste Massillon)
      Montour (named for an early settler)
      Montpelier
      Orleans (French city of Orléans or possibly New Orleans, Louisiana)
      Paris
      Platte
      Prairie
      Rinard
      Tête des Morts ("Head of the Dead Ones")


      Kansas


      Aulne: 126 
      Bazine (named for François Achille Bazaine)
      Beaumont ("beautiful mountain")
      Bellefonte ("beautiful spring")
      Belleville
      Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain")
      Beloit (named after the city in Wisconsin)
      Belpre ("beautiful prairie")
      Belvue ("beautiful view")
      Blue River (originally named "L'Eau Bleue" by French settlers)
      Boicourt: 131 
      Bourbon County
      Damar (named for a French settler)
      Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur): 47 
      DeMunn (named for Jules de Mun): 120 
      Detroit (named for the city in Michigan): 124 
      Dubuque (named for the city in Iowa)
      Duluth (named for the city in Minnesota)
      Frontenac (named for Louis de Buade de Frontenac)
      Geneva (named for the city in Switzerland): 133 
      Girard (named for Stephen Girard)
      Hugoton (named for Victor Hugo)
      La Cygne ("The Swan"; after the Marais des Cygnes River, which was named by French explorers)
      La Harpe (named for Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe)
      Labette County (named after Pierre La Bette, an early settler of French origin): 106 
      Lafontaine ("the fountain")
      Lecompton
      LeLoup ("the Wolf")
      Louisburg (named after St. Louis, Missouri): 125 
      Louisville (named for a French settler): 121 
      Lucerne ("alfalfa")
      Mankato (likely from "monecato," meaning "blue earth"): 115 
      Marais des Cygnes River ("marsh of the swans")
      Marion County (named for Francis Marion): 124 
      Marmaton River ("marmot")
      Marquette (named for Jacques Marquette)
      Neuchatel (named for the city in Switzerland): 132 
      Offerle (named for a French settler): 125 
      Paola (named for a French settler)
      Piedmont ("foothills"): 130 
      Reno County, named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. (Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault".): 168 
      Saline River ("salt"): 110 
      St. Francis
      Sedan (named for the French city)
      Solomon River (likely named after Edme Gatien de Salmon, a French colonial official): 109 
      Smoky Hill River (This river was originally named "La Fourche de la Côte Boucanée," or "hill of barbecues." The translation comes from explorer Zebulon Pike.)
      Sublette, Kansas (named for William Sublette): 189 
      Toulon (most likely named for the French city)
      Verdigris River
      Wyandotte County, French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe who were also known as the Hurons by the French in Canada


      Kentucky


      Cities

      Beaumont ("Beautiful Mountain")
      Bellefonte ("Beautiful Furnace")
      Bellemeade
      Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight")
      Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain" or possibly a local settler)
      Carcasonne (for the city in France)
      Clermont ("Clear Mountain")
      Etoile ("Star")
      La Center ("the Center")
      La Grange (for the Marquis de Lafayette's residence)
      LaFayette (for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lamont ("the Mountain")
      Louisville (named in honor of King Louis XVI in 1778)
      Magnolia
      Marion (named for Francis Marion, a hero of the American Revolution of French Huguenot ancestry)
      Montpelier (for the city in France)
      Paris (for the city in France)
      Richelieu (for Cardinal Richelieu)
      Rousseau (for Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
      Toulouse (for the city in France)
      Versailles (for the city in France)
      Counties

      Bourbon County (name for House of Bourbon, European Royal House)
      Fayette County (named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette)
      Gallatin County (named for Albert Gallatin, Swiss American and Secretary of State)
      LaRue County (named for John LaRue, early Kentucky settler)
      Marion County (named for Francis Marion, a hero of the American Revolution of French Huguenot ancestry)


      Louisiana


      Louisiana (Louisiane in French - named in honor of King Louis XIV of France in 1682)
      Abbeville (after Abbeville, France) (One of several communities in the United States named "Abbeville".)
      Algiers New Orleans neighborhood
      Ascension Parish, named from the French l'Ascension
      Arnaudville
      Assumption Parish, named from the French l'Assomption
      Audubon New Orleans neighborhood
      Avoyelles Parish
      Baton Rouge ("Red Stick")
      Bayou Cane
      Bayou Chicot
      Bayou Gauche ("Left Bayou")
      Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
      Bayou L'Ourse
      Beauregard Parish
      Belle Alliance ("Beautiful Alliance")
      Belle Chasse ("Beautiful Hunting")
      Belle d'Eau
      Belle Rose ("Beautiful Rose")
      Belmont
      Bienville Parish
      Blanchard (named after a Louisiana governor of French ancestry)
      Bonnet Carré, flood prevention spillway on the Mississippi River ("square bonnet")
      Bossier City (after Pierre Bossier)
      Bossier Parish
      Bourg (ancient French word for "town")
      Breaux Bridge
      Breton National Wildlife Refuge (on and around Breton Island)
      Broussard (after merchant Valsin Broussard, of Acadian descent)
      Butte La Rose
      Calcasieu
      Cancienne
      Chalmette ("Pasture land, fallow land")
      Chandeleur Islands
      Charenton (named after Charenton asylum)
      Chataignier ("Chestnut tree")
      Chauvin
      Chenier Au Tigre ("Tiger oak tree")
      Chenal
      Cocodrie (dialect word for "crocodile")
      Cossinade
      Coteau Bourgeois ("Bourgeois hill")
      Davant
      Delacroix Island
      Delcambre
      Des Allemands ("of the Germans")
      Destrehan (named in honor of Jean Noel Destréhan, Creole politician)
      Deville
      Dulac ("of the lake")
      Evangeline Parish
      Faubourg Marigny New Orleans neighborhood
      Faubourg Tremé New Orleans neighborhood
      Fontainebleau New Orleans neighborhood
      Fort De La Boulaye
      Garyville
      Gentilly New Orleans neighborhood
      Grand Bayou ("great bayou")
      Grand Ecaille ("great scale")
      Grand Ecore
      Grand Isle ("great island")
      Grand Chenier ("great oakwood")
      Grand Coteau ("great hill")
      Grosse Isle ("big island")
      Grand Point
      Grand Prairie ("great meadow")
      Grosse Tête ("fat or big head")
      Gueydan
      Iberville Parish (named for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville)
      Iberville Projects New Orleans neighborhood
      Jean Lafitte (named for Jean Lafitte, a famous pirate)
      Labadieville
      Lacamp
      Lacassine ("small house")
      LaCour
      Lacombe
      Lafayette (named for the Marquis de La Fayette)
      Lafitte Projects New Orleans neighborhood
      Lafourche Parish (from la fourche, referring to a forked path)
      Lake Borgne ("one-eyed")
      Lake Pontchartrain
      L'Anse Grise ("the gray cove")
      LaPlace (named for early settler Basile LaPlace.)
      Larose ("the rose")
      Lebeau ("the beautiful")
      Le Blanc ("the white")
      Lecompte
      Leonville
      Le Moyen
      Loreauville
      Marchand
      Mandeville (named for developer Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville)
      Maringouin (Cajun French in origin and means "mosquito")
      Marion (named after an American soldier of Huguenot ancestry)
      Maurepas
      Meaux (after the town of Meaux)
      Meraux
      Mermentau
      Mer Rouge ("red sea")
      Metairie (from a French word for sharecropping)
      Michoud New Orleans neighborhood
      Montegut
      Montpelier
      Moreauville
      Napoleonville (for French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte)
      New Orleans (named for the duke of Orléans, France)
      Ossun (named after the town of Ossun)
      Paincourtville ("short of bread town")
      Paradis ("Paradise")
      Parlange
      Pierre Part
      Plaisance
      Plaquemines Parish
      Plaucheville
      Point Au Fer Reef Light
      Pointe aux Chenes ("Oak Point")
      Pointe à la Hache ("Axe Spike")
      Pointe Coupee Parish (from pointe coupée, "cut spike")
      Port Barre
      Port Fourchon
      Pont Des Mouton
      Prairieville ("meadow town")
      Presquille (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
      Provencal
      Rosaryville
      Saint Benedict
      Saint Bernard
      Saint Maurice
      St. Amant
      St. Claude New Orleans neighborhood
      St. Francisville
      St. Gabriel
      St. Landry Parish
      St. Malo
      St. Martinville (originally named Poste des Attakapas-Atakapas Post)
      St. Roch New Orleans neighborhood
      St. Rose
      Saline
      South Vacherie
      Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land")
      Timbalier Island ("timpani player")
      Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant
      Vacherie ("Cowshed")
      Verdun
      Versailles
      Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans
      Ville Platte ("Flat City")


      Maine


      Maine (one theory suggests the state was named after the historic French province of Maine)
      Cadillac Mountain (named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac)
      Calais (after Calais, France)
      Caribou
      Castine (for Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin)
      Deblois
      Detroit
      Fayette (for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fort Pentagouet
      Grand Isle
      Isle au Haut
      Lagrange (for the Marquis de Lafayette's home)
      Lamoine (for Andre Le Moyne, a local landowner)
      Minot
      Montville
      Mount Desert Island
      Paris (for the city in France)
      Presque Isle (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The town is surrounded on three sides by water, and therefore is "almost an island")
      Portage Lake
      Roque Bluffs
      Saint Croix Island
      St. Francis River
      Saint John River
      Tremont


      Maryland


      Bel Air ("Good Air")
      Belcamp ("Beautiful Camp")
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Crapo (from crapaud, 'toad')
      Doubs (for either the départment or the river)
      Dunkirk (for the city in France)
      Havre de Grace (named after Le Havre (originally Le Havre de Grâce, literally "harbor of grace"), France)
      Magnolia
      Parole ("Word of Honor")
      Trappe ("Trap")


      Massachusetts


      Barre
      Belmont
      Marion
      Orleans (named for Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans)
      Revere (after Paul Revere, of Huguenot ancestry; his family name originally was Rivoire)
      Savoy


      Michigan


      Allouez (named after missionary Claude-Jean Allouez)
      Au Gres (French for "at the sandstone")
      Au Sable
      Au Sable River
      Au Train
      Barbeau
      Beaugrand Township
      Bellaire ("Beautiful Air")
      Belle Isle ("Beautiful Isle")
      Belle River
      Belleville ("Beautiful City;" named for a Paris district)
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
      Benzie County "Bec Scie", meaning "Saw Beak" or "Saw Bill", a kind of duck
      Berrien County
      Bete Grise ("Gray Beast")
      Bete Grise (community also meaning "Gray Beast")
      Bois Blanc Island ("White Wood," originally a Native American name)
      Cadillac (named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac)
      Calumet (named after the French word for a peace pipe)
      Chapin Township
      Charlevoix (named for Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761), a French Jesuit in New France)
      Cheviers
      Delaware Township
      De Tour Village ("Turning or Change of Direction")
      Detroit (of the "Strait")
      Doty
      Durand (named for George H. Durand, who was of French descent)
      Eau Claire ("Clear Water")
      Ecorse (from Rivière aux Écorces, "Bark River")
      Epoufette ("Test Tube")
      Fayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fort Gratiot Charter Township
      Fremont Township
      Grand Blanc ("Great/Large White")
      Grand Marais ("Large Marsh")
      Grand Traverse County
      Grandville ("Big City")
      Grande Pointe
      Gratiot County (named for Charles Gratiot, who was of French descent)
      Gros Cap ("Great Elevation")
      Grosse Ile ("Big Island")
      Grosse Pointe ("Big Point")
      Grosse Pointe Farms
      Grosse Pointe Park
      Grosse Pointe Shores
      Grosse Pointe Woods
      Hamtramck (named for the French-Canadian soldier Jean François Hamtramck from Québec, became a decorated officer in the American Revolutionary War)
      Huron (named for the Wyandot people, called "Huron" in French)
      Isle Royale National Park ("Royal Island")
      Lac La Belle ("Beautiful Lake", community)
      Lac La Belle ("Beautiful Lake", lake)
      Lachine
      Lamotte Township
      L'Anse ("The Cove")
      Lapeer County (from pierre, meaning "stone")
      Lasalle (named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle)
      LeRoy ("The King")
      Les Cheneaux Islands ("The Channels")
      Marion Township
      Marlette
      Marne (named after a river in France)
      Marquette (named after explorer Jacques Marquette)
      Marquette County
      Metz (named for the French city)
      Montcalm County (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War).
      Montmorency County (named for the Montmorency family, a noble family influential in the administration of New France)
      Napoleon (for Napoleon Bonaparte)
      Orleans (named for the French city)
      Ozark (from aux arcs, "at the bend")
      Paris (named for the French city)
      Parisville
      Pere Marquette River (for Father (père) Jacques Marquette)
      Pere Marquette Township
      Pointe Aus Barques
      Pointe Aux Chenes ("Oak Point")
      Pointe aux Tremble
      Pointe La Barbe ("Point of the Beard")
      Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
      Portage
      Presque Isle (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
      Presque Isle County
      Reno Township
      River Rouge
      Saint Clair Haven
      Saint Clair Shores
      Saint Louis (named for the city in Missouri)
      Saline
      Sans Souci
      Sault Ste. Marie ("St. Mary's Rapids")
      Sebille Manor
      St. Clair
      St. Clair County
      St. Clair Shores
      St. Ignace (French rendition of St. Ignatius)
      St. Joseph
      Traverse City
      Torch Lake (originally named "Lac du Flambeau")
      Vermilion
      Vermontville


      Minnesota


      Argyle (from the French Argile, "clay") (or from Argyll in Scotland?)
      Audubon (named for John James Audubon)
      Baudette (named for Joseph Baudette, a trapper of French-Canadian descent who lived in the area)
      Beaulieu (named for Basille Beaulieu, a trapper of French-Canadian descent who lived in the area)
      Belle Plaine ("Beautiful Plain")
      Belle Prairie Township
      Bernadotte (named after Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, 19th-century king of Sweden and Norway born in France)
      Big Fork River (originally Rivière Grande Fourche)
      Bois de Sioux River ("woods of the Sioux")
      Bois Forte Indian Reservation ("hard wood")
      Brule River (from the Ojibwe name Wiisakode-ziibi "half-burned wood river", which was translated directly into French as Bois Brulé. Half of the river disappears into a pothole in the Judge C. R. Magney State Park).
      Calumet (named for the French word for peace pipe)
      Cannon River (originally named rivière aux canots, "river of the canoes")
      Cloquet
      Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")
      Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
      Detroit Mountain, thus Detroit Lakes
      Duluth (named after Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French soldier and explorer)
      Faribault, named for Jean-Baptiste Faribault, French-Canadian trader
      Faribault County, named for Jean-Baptiste Faribault, French-Canadian trader
      Fond du Lac Indian Reservation ("source of the lake")
      Frontenac State Park (named after Louis de Buade de Frontenac, governor of New France)
      Frontier ("Border" refers to its position on the Minnesota / Ontario border)
      Gentilly (named after Gentilly, Quebec)
      Glese (From the French "glaise" or clay)
      Grand Marais ("Big Marsh"; some speculate "Big Harbor" in founders' accent)
      Grand Portage ("Large Portage")
      Grand Rapids
      Hennepin County (named in honor of the 17th-century Belgian explorer Father Louis Hennepin)
      Huot, Minnesota (named after French-Canadian settler Louis Huot )
      La Moille - corruption of La Mouette 'the seagull' from a Vermont city name
      La Porte (The Door)
      La Prairie
      Lac qui Parle ("lake that speaks")
      La Crescent
      Lac Vieux Desert ("lake of the old clearing")
      Lafayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lake Pepin (named after French-Canadian settler Jean Pepin)
      Lake Traverse
      Lake of the Woods (originally lac du bois)
      Laporte (for a settler)
      Laprairie ("the prairie")
      La Salle (named after René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer)
      Le Center (originally "le centre")
      Le Roy (named after Le Roy, New York)
      Le Sueur (named after Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer)
      Leech Lake (originally lac sangsue, "leech lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Ozagaskwaajimekaag-zaaga'igan "Lake abundant with leeches")
      Little Fork River (originally Rivière Petite Fourche)
      Little Marais (originally Petit Marais, "Little Marsh")
      Magnolia
      Marabouf Lake
      Mille Lacs County
      Mille Lacs Lake ("thousand lakes")
      Nicollet County (named after Joseph Nicollet, French mapmaker who led three 18th-century expeditions in present-day Minnesota and the Dakotas)
      Orleans (named after Orléans, France)
      Pelland (named after French-Canadian Joseph Pelland, the town's first postmaster)
      Platte
      Pomme de Terre ("potato")
      Racine ("roots")
      Rainy Lake (originally lac à la pluie, "rainy lake")
      Red Lake (originally lac rouge, "red lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan "Red-colored Waters Lake")
      Renville County, Minnesota (named after Joseph Renville, Métis founder of the Columbia Fur Company)
      Revere (named after Paul Revere, who was of French descent)
      Roseau ("reed")
      Roseville
      St. Cloud (named after Saint-Cloud, France; St. Cloud is Saint Clodoald, grandson of the Frankish king Clovis I)
      St. Croix River
      St. Hilaire
      St. Louis Park
      Saint Louis River (named for Louis IX of France)
      Saint Paul (once known as Pig's Eye Landing after Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant - French: l'Oeil du Cochon, a French-Canadian trader and innkeeper, renamed Saint Paul by French-Canadian pastor Lucien Galtier when he built the first Roman Catholic chapel in the area)
      Sedan (named after Sedan, France)
      Terrebonne ("good land")
      Thief River Falls (originally la rivière voleuse, or "stealing river")
      Traverse County
      Vadnais Heights, suburb of Saint Paul
      Vaseux Portage
      Lake Vermilion
      Voyageurs National Park, (named after the French-Canadian explorers - "travellers")


      Mississippi


      Abbeville (named after Abbeville, South Carolina, which had been settled by Huguenots and named for Abbeville, France)
      Amite County (from amitié, "friendship")
      Bay St. Louis (from Baie Saint-Louis)
      Bayou Caddy
      Bellefontaine
      Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
      Benoit
      Biloxi
      Bourbon (named for the House of Bourbon)
      Carriere
      Centreville (note the "re" spelling in "centre" as opposed to "center")
      Clermont Harbor
      Decatur (named after Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      De Lisle
      D'Iberville (named after Pierre Lemoyne, Sieur d'Iberville, governor of New France)
      Dumas
      Fayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Gautier (Named for the Gautier family, who established a homestead on the site in 1867.)
      Lafayette County (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lafayette Springs (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      LeFleur's Bluff State Park (named after earlier French-Canadian trader and settler Louis Lafleur)
      Leflore County (named after Greenwood LeFleur, son of the French-Canadian trader and settler Louis Lafleur)
      Macon (named for Nathaniel Macon, Revolutionary War veteran and United States Senator of Huguenot ancestry)
      Magnolia
      Marion (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Montpelier (named after the French city)
      Ozark (from aux arcs, "at the bend")
      Paris (for the French city)
      Pass Christian (Named after Nicholas Christian L'Adnier)
      Petit Bois Island ("Little Woods")
      Saucier
      Sartinville
      St. Martin


      Missouri


      Audrain County (named after James Hunter Audrain, a Colonel of Militia who served during the War of 1812)
      Auxvasse
      Bay de Charles
      Bayouville
      Belgique (named after Belgium)
      Belle
      Bellefontaine
      Bevier (named after Robert Bevier, a Missouri colonel for the Confederate army in the American Civil War)
      Bonne Terre
      Bourbeuse River
      Bourbon
      Brazeau
      Cap au Gris
      Cape Girardeau
      Cape Girardeau County (named after Jean Baptiste de Girardot, a French soldier who established a temporary trading post in the area around 1733)
      Carondelet (named after Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet, 18th-century Louisiana governor of partial Burgundian descent
      Castor River
      Chamois
      Chariton County
      Chouteau Springs (named for Jean-Pierre Chouteau, New Orleans-born fur trader, merchant, politician, and slaveholder of French descent)
      Courtois
      Courtois Creek
      Courtois Hills
      Creve Coeur ("Heartbreak")
      Cuivre River ("copper")
      Dardenne Prairie
      DeBaliviere Place (Neighborhood in St. Louis)
      Des Arc
      Desloge (named after Firmin V. Desloge, industrialist of French descent)
      Des Peres, "Fathers," named after the French Jesuit missionaries who settled there
      River Des Peres
      Fayette (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Femme Osage
      Florissant (formerly Fleurissant, meaning "blooming")
      Frontenac (named after Louis de Buade de Frontenac, governor of New France)
      Gasconade County (named after the Gascony region of France)
      Gravois Mills
      LaBarque Creek
      La Belle
      Laclede
      Laclede County (named for Pierre Laclede (1729–1778), the French founder of St. Louis, Missouri)
      Lafayette County (named for Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette)
      La Forge
      La Grange
      Lake Lafayette
      La Tour
      La Vieille Mine (Alternate name of Old Mines)
      Le Grand Village Sauvage
      Loutre River ("Otter")
      Lyon
      Macon County (named for Nathaniel Macon, Revolutionary War veteran and United States Senator of Huguenot ancestry)
      Marais Croche
      Marais des Cygnes River ("Swan Marsh")
      Marais des Liards (original name of Bridgeton)
      Marais Temps Clair
      Maries County From "Marais" meaning swamp.
      Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Maupin
      Mine La Motte
      Metz (named for the Siege of Metz)
      Moniteau County
      Moreau River
      Noel
      Normandy (named after the Normandy region of France)
      Oregon County "Ouragon" meaning hurricane
      Ozark County "Aux Arcs"
      Papin
      Paris (named after Paris, Kentucky)
      Pere Marquette Park
      Petit Marais Rondeau Lake
      Platte County
      Pomme de Terre Lake ("Potato")
      Pomme de Terre River ("Potato")
      Portage des Sioux
      Portageville
      Prairie du Chien
      River aux Vases
      Robidoux
      Roubidoux Creek
      Rocheport
      St. Aubert
      St. Clair County (named after Arthur St. Clair, first governor of the Northwest Territory)
      St. Cloud
      St. Francois County
      St. Francois Mountains
      St. Joseph (Founded by Joseph Robidoux IV, Missouri-born fur trader of French Canadian descent who named the city after himself)
      St. Louis (named after King Louis IX, later canonized as Saint Louis)
      St. Louis County
      Ste. Genevieve (named after Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris)
      Ste. Genevieve County (named after Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris)
      Terre du Lac
      Theabeau
      Valles Mines (named after François Vallé, a French-Canadian who established lead mines there in the 18th century)
      Versailles (named after the Palace of Versailles)
      Vichy (named after Vichy, France)


      Montana


      Anceney and Anceney Bridge, Montana, named after Charles Leon Ancen(n)ey (Anxionnaz)(1826-1895)
      Belle Creek community (and Belle Creek river)
      Cascade County ("waterfall")
      Choteau
      Chouteau County, named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader of French Canadian origin
      Dupuyer
      Froid ("Cold")
      Havre (named after Le Havre, France)
      Joliet (named after Joliet, Illinois)
      Laurin (named after Jean-Baptiste Laurin, Frenchman who founded a trading post in the mid-19th century that became the site of the community)
      Lozeau
      Portage
      Prairie County
      St. Marie
      St. Xavier
      Sonnette
      Teton County ("Teat")
      Valmy (from Valmy, France)
      Virgelle
      Wibaux County (named after Pierre Wibaux, French cattle owner and ranchman in Montana and North Dakota)


      Nebraska


      Barada (named after Antoine Barada, a fur trapper born in Iowa of French and Omaha descent)
      Bayonne (named after Bayonne, France)
      Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight")
      Bordeaux (named for the creek, below)
      Bordeaux Creek (named for Jim Bordeaux, born in Missouri of French descent, who managed the nearby Bordeaux Trading Post)
      Cabanné's Post (named after its operator, Jean Pierre Cabanné, born in St. Louis of French descent)
      Chadron, Nebraska (named after Louis Chartran, a French-Indian fur trapper who ran a nearby trading post)
      Decatur (named after Stephen Decatur Bross, one of Nebraska's earliest settlers)
      Du Bois ("of the Woods")
      Fontanelle, Fontenelle Forest, Fontenelle Boulevard, Hotel Fontenelle, Logan Fontenelle Housing Project (Named after Logan Fontenelle, Omaha Tribe chief who was the son of a Creole and Omahan mother)
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and politician)
      Grand Island (after nearby settlement known to French traders as La Grande Isle)
      La Platte
      Loup County, Loup River ("Wolf", named after the Skidi Pawnee people who called themselves the Wolf People)
      Louisville (named after Louisville, Kentucky)
      Loup River
      Lyons
      Papillion (from papillon, "butterfly")
      Platte County
      Platte River ("flat river")
      Robidoux Pass
      Sarpy County (named after Peter Sarpy, a fur trader of French descent)
      St. Deroin (named after Joseph Deroin, Métis trader).
      St. Paul


      Nevada


      Frenchman
      Frenchman Flat
      Lamoille
      Montreux
      Pioche, named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a financier who purchased the town in 1869.
      Primeaux
      Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
      Valmy, named after the place in France of a famous battle during the Revolutionary period.


      New Hampshire


      Belmont (named for August Belmont, German-born financier who changed his name to Belmont upon arriving in the United States)
      Bretton Woods
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and politician)
      Pinardville (named for Edmond Pinard, Québec native and early resident)


      New Jersey


      New Jersey and Jersey City (after the Bailliage de Jersey, the largest of the Anglo-Norman Channel Islands near the coast of northwest France)
      Audubon (named for John James Audubon, naturalist of French descent)
      Bayonne (according to tradition, from Bayonne, France)
      Belleplain
      Belleville ("Beautiful town")
      Lavallette (named for Elie A. F. La Vallette, U.S. naval captain of French family origin)
      Port Liberté ("Freedom Port")
      Montclair ("Bright Mountain")


      New Mexico


      Bayard (named for George Dashiell Bayard, Union general in the Civil War of French ancestry)
      Clovis (named for Clovis, first Christian King of the Franks)
      Lamy, New Mexico (named for the French born and educated Santa Fe, New Mexico Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814 - 1888)
      Ledoux, New Mexico (named for Abraham Ledoux (1784-1842) and Antoine Ledoux (1779 - ?), two French brothers born in Québec, who became trappers and settled in Mora, New Mexico and Taos, New Mexico)
      Antoine Leroux, New Mexico (named for Antoine Leroux (1801 - 1861), a famous trader and scout, born from French - Canadian parents, who settled in Taos, New Mexico)
      St. Vrain, New Mexico (named for Ceran St. Vrain (1802 - 1870), a Western American trader of French descent.


      New York


      Au Sable
      Ausable River ("sand river")
      Barre
      Bellerose
      Belle Terre
      Boquet or Bouquet River
      Buffalo (One theory holds that the city gets its name from an English corruption of the French "beau fleuve" ("beautiful river").)
      Chateaugay (named after Chateauguay, Québec)
      Chateaugay River
      Champlain (named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
      Chaumont (named after Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, French governor and "Father of the American Revolution")
      Chaumont Bay
      Chaumont River
      Chazy (named after Lieutenant de Chézy of the Carignan-Salières Regiment)
      Clermont
      Decatur (named after Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Delaware County
      Dunkirk (named after the city of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, France, because of the similar harbor.)
      Esperance
      Fayette
      Fayetteville (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fremont
      Fremont Center (named after John C. Frémont, Franco-American explorer, military officer and politician)
      Gouverneur (named after Gouverneur Morris, signer of the U.S. Constitution and former U.S. Senator from New York of Huguenot descent)
      Grand Island
      Granville (named after John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, British statesman of Norman descent)
      Grasse River (named after François Joseph Paul de Grasse, a French admiral who decisively defeated the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake in September 1781 during the American Revolution)
      Huguenot
      Jacques Cartier State Park (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th-century French explorer Jacques Cartier)
      La Chute River
      LaFayette (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      LaGrange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lake Champlain (lake named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
      Le Ray (named after Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, French governor and "Father of the American Revolution")
      Le Roy
      Lorraine (named for the Lorraine region of France)
      Louisville (named after Louis XIV)
      Lyons (named after Lyon, France)
      Maine
      Marion (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Massena (named after André Masséna, one of Napoleon's field marshals.)
      Montague
      Montour (named after Catherine Montour, Iroquois leader of mixed French descent)
      New Paltz (named by French Huguenots)
      New Rochelle (founded by French Huguenots and named after La Rochelle, France.)
      Orleans
      Orleans County (possibly named in honor of the House of Orléans)
      Portage
      Raquette River
      Rouses Point (named after early settler Jacques Rouse.)
      Point Au Roche State Park (park located on the shores of Lake Champlain)
      St. Armand (named for Saint-Armand, Quebec)
      St. Lawrence County (for the Saint Lawrence River, English form of Fleuve Saint-Laurent.)
      Valcour Island (island located in Lake Champlain)


      North Carolina


      Belvoir
      Camp Lejeune US Marine Corps base (Named for John A. Lejeune, 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, of Acadian descent)
      Charlotte (Named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
      Fayetteville (Named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Faison (Named for Henry Faison, local physician and cotton farmer of French Huguenot descent)
      Fremont
      La Grange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Lenoir (Named for William Lenoir, Revolutionary War officer of French Huguenot descent)
      Lenoir County
      Peletier


      North Dakota


      Almont
      Belcourt (named for Georges-Antoine Belcourt, French-Canadian Roman Catholic priest who established two missions in present-day North Dakota)
      Bois de Sioux River
      Bordulac ("Edge of the Lake")
      Bottineau (named for Pierre Bottineau, Métis pioneer, hunter, and trapper)
      Cavalier (from "chevalier", knight)
      Charbonneau
      Chateau de Mores State Historic Site (home and ranch built in the 1880s by the French cattle baron and nobleman Marquis de Morès)
      Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")
      Missouri Coteau
      Coulee
      De Lamere
      Des Lacs River("of the Lakes"), also Des Lacs
      Gascoyne (from the French region "Gascogne")
      Grand Forks (from the French "les Grandes Fourches" or the great forks)
      Granville (named for Granville Dodge, local railroad executive)
      Joliette (named for Joliette, Quebec)
      LaMoure (named for Judson LaMoure, North Dakota legislator born in present-day Quebec)
      Medora (named by the French nobleman Marquis de Morès for his wife Medora)
      Merricourt
      Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
      Renville County (named for Joseph Renville, interpreter, guide and founder of the Columbia Fur Company of French-Canadian and Sioux descent)
      Rolette County (named for Joe Rolette, Minnesota territorial legislator of French-Canadian descent)
      Rolette
      Russo Original family named Rousseau
      Verendrye (named for Pierre de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian officer and explorer)
      Voltaire (named for Voltaire, French Enlightenment philosopher)


      Ohio


      Auglaize River (corruption of the French eau glaise, meaning "muddy water")
      Auglaize County
      Belfort (named for Belfort, France)
      Bellaire
      Bellefontaine ("Beautiful Spring")
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Belmont County (Anglicized "Beautiful Mountain")
      Belmont
      Belpre (Shortened from "Belle Prairie," "Beautiful Meadow")
      Champaign County ("Open level country")
      Chardon (named for Peter Chardon Brooks, Massachusetts legislator)
      Clermont County (named for Clermont, France
      Decatur
      Delaware County
      Duchouquet Township (named for Francis Duchouquet, French-Canadian trapper)
      Fayette County (after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fayette
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American explorer, military officer and politician of French-Canadian descent)
      Gallia County (Latin for Gaul, Roman name for France)
      Gallipolis, Ohio, largest city of Gallia County
      Girard (named for Stephen Girard, French-born American banker, philanthropist and slave owner)
      Grand Prairie Township
      Guernsey County (named for Isle of Guernsey)
      Huron County (French name for the Wyandot tribe)
      Lafayette
      Lagrange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette)
      LaRue (named for William LaRue, town founder)
      Leroy Township, Lake County (named for Le Roy, New York)
      Lorain County (for the French province of Lorraine)
      Lorain
      Louisville
      Marietta (to honor Marie Antoinette)
      Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Marne (named after a river in France)
      Marseilles (from the French city of Marseille)
      Martel ("Hammer")
      Massillon (after Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop)
      Moraine
      Oregon
      Paris Township, Portage County, Ohio (named for Paris, New York)
      Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio
      Paris Township, Union County, Ohio
      Portage County
      Vermilion River (Red River)
      Versailles (named for Versailles, France)


      Oklahoma


      Avant ("Before" or "ahead")
      Ballard (a common French surname)
      Belfonte
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Boise City (from Boisé, "Wooded")
      Cache
      Chouteau (named for Auguste Pierre Chouteau, fur trader born in Upper Louisiana of French descent
      Delaware County
      Durant (The French surname of the town's founding French/Choctaw family)
      El Reno (Named after Civil War officer Jesse L. Reno, of Huguenot descent)
      Guymon
      Lucien (A common French given name)
      Poteau ("Stake," named by French explorers)
      Remy
      Sans Bois Mountains ("Without forest")
      Verdigris "Green Gray"
      Verdigris River (named by French traders who settled in the area in the late 1700s)


      Oregon


      Oregon (possibly from "le fleuve aux ouragans", French for "river of the hurricanes", referring to the windiness of the Columbia River)
      Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
      Charbonneau (named after Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau son of Sacajawea and Toussaint Charbonneau a French-Canadian trapper member of the Lewis & Clark expedition)
      Coquille ("Shell")
      Deschutes County ("of the falls")
      Deschutes River (from rivière des chutes meaning river of the falls)
      Deschutes National Forest (Waterfalls National Forest)
      Detroit ("Strait")
      Gervais (named for Joseph Gervais, French-Canadian pioneer and trapper)
      Grand Ronde ("Big ring")
      Lafayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      La Grande ("The Big / Great One")
      Langlois (French surname. From "L'Anglais" = the Englishman)
      La Pine ("The Pine")
      Malheur County ("Misfortune")
      Marion County (named fpr Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Maupin (named for Howard Maupin, local settler and postmaster)
      Nonpareil ("Unparalleled")
      Rainier (named for Peter Rainier, Royal Navy officer of Huguenot descent)
      Ruch ("Hive")
      Saint Louis
      Saint Paul
      Sauvie Island (named for Laurent Sauvé dit Laplante, a French-Canadian who managed a dairy for the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1830s and 1840s)
      Terrebonne ("Good land")
      The Dalles (from les dalles meaning "slabs" or possibly a type of rapids)
      Willamette River (French pronunciation of a Clackamas Indian village name)
      Willamette Valley


      Pennsylvania


      Belle Vernon
      Bellefonte ("Beautiful Fountain")
      Bellevue
      Boquet (named for Henry Bouquet, 18th-century Swiss-born British army officer of the 18th century)
      Calumet, Pennsylvania
      Charleroi ("Charles King"—in reference to King Carlos II of Spain)
      Chartiers Township (named for Peter Chartier, fur trader of mixed Shawnee and French parentage)
      Dauphin County (named for Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France)
      Decatur Township (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
      DuBois ("Of the Woods")
      Duquesne (named after Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, governor-general of New France)
      Eau Claire
      Fayette City
      Fayette County (named for Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fort Duquesne (named for Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, governor-general of New France)
      Fort Le Boeuf
      Fort Machault (named for Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, French Minister of the Marine at the time of the fort's construction)
      Fort Presque Isle
      Laporte (named for John Laporte, former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives)
      Ligonier (named for Field Marshal John Ligonier, a British noble and officer with French ancestry)
      Luzerne County (named for Anne-César de La Luzerne, 18th-century French Minister to the United States)
      Luzerne Township
      Mercer Township
      Montour County (named for Andrew Montour, a prominent Métis interpreter who served with George Washington during the French and Indian War)
      North Versailles Township
      Paris
      South Versailles Township
      Versailles, named after the Palace of Versailles
      Wilkes-Barre (named after Isaac Barré, English soldier and politician of Huguenot descent)


      Rhode Island


      Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, RI
      Marieville, a neighborhood in Providence, RI


      South Carolina


      Abbeville (from Abbeville, France)
      Abbeville County, South Carolina
      Bonneau (named for Floride Bonneau Calhoun, wife of U.S. politician John C. Calhoun)
      Bordeaux (from Bordeaux, France)
      DeBordieu
      Eau Claire ("Clear Water")
      Fort Motte (named for Rebecca Brewton Motte, a plantation owner)
      Gaston (A common French given name)
      Gourdin
      La France
      Pacolet
      Port Royal Sound
      Ravenel
      Sans Souci ("No Worries", the French name of chateau of Frederick the Great, famously Francophile)
      Turbeville
      Vaucluse (from the Vaucluse, France)


      South Dakota


      Belle Fourche ("Beautiful Fork")
      Belle Fourche Reservoir
      Belle Fourche River
      Big Sioux River
      Bois de Sioux River ("Woods of the Sioux" River)
      Bon Homme County ("Good Man" County)
      Burdette
      Conde (named for the Princes of Condé)
      Corsica
      Coteau des Prairies ("Slope of the Prairies")
      Missouri Coteau ("Slope of the Missouri")
      East Sioux Falls, a ghost town
      Edgemont
      De Smet (named for Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Belgian priest)
      Dupree (named for Fred Dupris, a pioneer settler)
      Flandreau (named for Charles Eugene Flandrau, judge of Huguenot ancestry)
      Fort Pierre
      Jerauld County
      Joubert (a common French surname)
      Lake Traverse
      La Plant
      LeBeau
      Mellette County (named for Arthur C. Mellette, the first governor of the State of South Dakota)
      Montrose (possibly from "pink mountain")
      Moreau River
      North Sioux City
      Pierpont
      Pierre (named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr., a St. Louis-born fur trader of French descent)
      Platte
      Roubaix (a ghost town whose name was chosen in honor of Roubaix, France, the hometown of Pierre Wibaux, an investor in a local mine)
      Roubaix Lake, a lake located in the Black Hills (from the French city of Roubaix)
      Sioux Falls
      Vermillion, South Dakota
      West Branch Lac qui Parle River ("Lake that Speaks" River)


      Tennessee


      Decatur
      Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Decaturville
      Fayette County (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Gallatin (named for Swiss-born Albert Gallatin, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury)
      Lafayette (named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      La Follette (named for Harvey Marion LaFollette, town founder of Huguenot ancestry)
      La Grange
      La Vergne
      Lenoir City (named for William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general of Huguenot ancestry, and his son)
      Macon
      Macon County (named for Nathaniel Macon, Revolutionary War veteran and United States Senator of Huguenot ancestry)
      Marion County
      Paris
      Sevier County
      Sevierville (named for John Sevier, Tennessee governor of Huguenot ancestry)


      Texas


      Austin-named for Stephen F. Austin, whose surname is of Norman French origin.
      Bayou Vista
      Biloxi
      Blanchard
      Burnet County (named after early Texas leader David Gouverneur Burnet)
      Castroville (founded by Henri Castro, a French diplomat)
      Colmesnil
      Crockett County (Davy Crockett's ancestors were Huguenots named Croquetagne, one of whom was captain in the Royal Guard of Louis XIV)
      Dallardsville
      DeBerry
      Decatur (named after Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent)
      Doucette
      Dumas, named after its founder Louis Dumas
      Duval County (named after Burr H. Duval, a soldier in the Texas Revolution who died in the Goliad Massacre
      Fayette County (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Gary City
      Grand Prairie
      LaBelle
      La Grange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette)
      La Marque
      La Porte ("The Door")
      La Salle County (named after explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle)
      Lamar County (named after early Texas leader Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, of Huguenot descent)
      Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Mauriceville
      Menard
      Menard County (named after Michel Branamour Menard, French-Canadian trader and merchant)
      Mont Belvieu
      Montague County (named after Daniel Montague, surveyor and soldier in the Mexican–American War)
      Paris


      Utah


      Ballard
      Bonneville Salt Flats (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper and explorer)
      Cache County (named for the fur stashes, caches, made by many of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company trappers in the area
      Cache Junction
      Duchesne
      Duchesne County
      Fayette (named for Fayette, New York, where the LDS church was founded)
      Fort Duchesne
      Grand County
      Henrieville
      Lapoint
      Portage (named after Portage County, Ohio)
      Provo (named after Étienne Provost, French-Canadian fur trader)


      Vermont


      Vermont (probably translated from "Green Mountain" in the 1770s)
      Barre (named after Isaac Barré, English soldier and politician of Huguenot descent)
      Belmont (origin unknown)
      Calais (named for Calais, France)
      Grand Isle County ("big island")
      Isle La Motte (named after a French soldier, Pierre La Motte in 1666)
      Lake Champlain (named by Samuel de Champlain in 1662)
      Lamoille (possibly named by French settlers as La Mouette)
      Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
      Orleans County and Orleans (named after Orléans, France)
      Vergennes (named for Frenchman Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, who aided the rebels in the American Revolutionary War)


      Virginia


      Amissville
      Barboursville (named for James Barbour, 18th governor of Virginia)
      Basye
      Bavon
      Belmont
      Belle Isle State Park
      Belvoir
      Bertrand (A common French given name)
      Boissevain
      Bon Air
      Botetourt County (named for Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt)
      Capron
      Caret
      Cedon
      Champlain
      Chantilly, named after Chantilly, France
      Clary
      Crozet (named for Claudius Crozet, French-born civil engineer who directed the construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel)
      Delaplane
      Fauquier County (named for Francis Fauquier, 18th-century lieutenant governor of Virginia of Huguenot descent)
      Fort Belvoir ("see well")
      Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, pioneer and politician of French-Canadian descent)
      La Crosse
      Lagrange
      Macon
      Manquin
      Mauzy
      Montpelier
      Orlean
      Paris
      Renan (named for Ernest Renan, French philosopher and theologian)
      Richmond, from "riche mont", a name given first to the castle founded in North Yorkshire by a Breton family, and from there to Richmond near London
      Rochelle
      Sabot
      Turbeville


      Washington


      Beaux Arts Village (from "fine arts")
      Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
      Belfair
      Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
      Blanchard (Old French for "Whitish")
      Boistfort
      Brier
      Coulee City
      Coupeville
      Decatur Island
      Deschutes ("of the Falls")
      Des Moines ("of the Monks")
      Doty
      Dupont
      Duvall
      Esperance ("Hope")
      Fauntleroy (Old French for "Child of the King")
      Guerrier ("Warrior")
      Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow")
      La Center
      La Crosse
      La Grande
      Lamont
      La Push (Clallam County, along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula. Home to the Quileute Indian Tribe. From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon)
      Laurier (Named after Sil Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister)
      Loup Loup (from loup, "wolf")
      Malo
      Maury Island
      Mount Rainier (named after Captain Peter Rainier, grandson of the Huguenot refugee Daniel Regnier)
      Normandy (named after Normandy, France)
      North Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
      Ozette
      Palouse (from pelouse, meaning "lawn")
      Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring" and a reference to heavy earrings and distended lobes of the people of the same name)
      Pomeroy (Old French for "Apple Orchard")
      Portage
      Portage Island
      Puget Sound named after Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
      Quimper Peninsula
      Roche Harbor
      Touchet
      Touchet River
      Vashon
      Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent


      West Virginia


      Bayard (named after Thomas F. Bayard Jr., U.S. senator from Delaware of Huguenot descent)
      Belle
      Belmont
      Despard
      Fayette
      Fayette County (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Fayetteville (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
      Granville
      Guyandotte River (a river in southern West Virginia, running from Wyoming County near Beckley, to the Ohio River near Huntington. Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.)
      Marion County (named after Francis Marion, Revolutionary War officer of Huguenot descent)
      Montcalm (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War).
      Ronceverte (Name is derived from two words meaning "Greenbrier.")


      Wisconsin


      Wisconsin (anglicized from the French "Ouisconsin", which in turn is a corruption of the Ojibwe "Meskonsing")
      Allouez (named after Claude-Jean Allouez, French-born missionary and explorer)
      Apple River (corruption of the French Rivière Pomme de Terre des Cygnes, which in turn is a translation from the Ojibwe Waabiziipinikaani-ziibi, "River abundant with swan potatoes")
      Argonne (from the Forest of Argonne in France)
      Ballou
      Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain")
      Bellevue ("beautiful view")
      Benoit
      Bois Brule River ("burnt wood")
      Butte des Morts ("hill of the dead")
      Calumet County (French for Menominee peace pipe)
      Cassel (a town in France)
      Couderay (from lac courte oreilles, "short ears")
      Dell Prairie
      De Pere (from les rapides des pères, "the rapids of the fathers" after Jesuit mission at the location)
      Dovre
      Eau Claire ("clear water")
      Eau Claire County
      Eau Galle (from "Rivière aux Galets," "Gravel River")
      Eau Pleine ("full water")
      Flambeau ("torch")
      Fond du Lac ("bottom of the lake")
      Fond du Lac County
      Grand Chute ("great fall")
      Juneau County (Named for Solomon Juneau, French-Canadian fur trader and a founder of Milwaukee)
      La Crosse (Named for the Native American game with sticks played there)
      La Crosse County
      La Farge
      Lafayette County (Named for the Marquis de Lafayette)
      La Grange
      La Pointe (from la pointe de Chequamegon, the area around Chequamegon Bay)
      La Valle ("the valley")
      Lac Courte Oreilles ("lake short ears")
      Lac du Flambeau ("lake of the torch")
      Lac La Belle ("Lake the beautiful or beautiful lake")
      Lake Butte des Morts ("hill of the dead")
      Langlade County (Named for Charles Michel de Langlade, fur trader of mixed French-Canadian/Ottawa descent
      Marinette County
      Marquette (after Father Jacques Marquette)
      Marquette County
      Montreal ("Royal Mountain", after Montréal, Québec)
      Nicolet National Forest (named after Jean Nicolet, first European to set foot in present-day Wisconsin)
      Pepin County
      Portage (originally named for the Fox-Wisconsin portage)
      Portage County
      Prairie du Chien ("dog prairie")
      Prairie du Sac ("prairie of the Sac people")
      Presque Isle (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
      Racine ("root", after the Root River)
      Racine County
      Radisson (named for Pierre-Esprit Radisson, early French-Canadian explorer)
      Roche a Cri
      St. Croix Falls (after the St. Croix ("Holy Cross") river, named c. 1689)
      St. Croix County
      Superior (from Lake Superior / Lac Supérieur - meaning "upper" in this context)
      Theresa (named for Thérèse Galarneau Juneau, the mother of Solomon Juneau, French-Canadian fur trader and a founder of Milwaukee)
      Trempealeau River (from "trempe à l'eau", "plunge into the water")
      Trempealeau County


      Wyoming


      Belle Fourche River
      Bondurant
      Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people.)
      Cheyenne River
      Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry)
      Fontenelle
      Fort Laramie
      Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and politician)
      Grand Teton National Park (from French grands tétons, "large teats" - presumably referring to the mountains' shape)
      Gros Ventre Range
      Gros Ventre River
      La Barge (named for Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior, French-Canadian fur trapper and trader)
      La Grange
      Laramie (named from Jacques LaRamie, French-Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in the late 1810s)
      Laramie County
      Laramie Mountains
      Laramie River
      Little Laramie River, as well as the North, South, and Middle Fork Laramie Rivers
      North Laramie River
      North Platte River
      Platte County
      Ranchettes
      Sublette County (named for William Sublette, American frontiersman of French descent)
      Teton County
      Teton Range
      Teton Village


      U.S. Virgin Islands


      Saint Croix ("Holy Cross")


      See also



      List of U.S. state name etymologies
      Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
      List of place names of German origin in the United States
      List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
      List of Chinook Jargon placenames
      List of non-US places that have a US place named after them


      Notes




      References




      Bibliography




      External links

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: list of place names of french origin in the united states

    list of place names of french origin in the united states