List of U.S. place names of French origin

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, etc.). A few French place names (e.g. New Orleans, Louisiana; Saint-Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; New Rochelle, New York after La Rochelle, the one time Huguenot stronghold in France) were given by groups of French immigrants. The suffix "-ville" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. "Ville" is the French word for "city". 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). Spanish place names in the Southwest were generally not replaced by English names.

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Alabama

• Barbour County
• Bay Minette ("Kitty Bay")
• Bayou la Batre ("Bayou of the Battery")
• Belle Fontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Bon Air
• Bon Secour ("Good Rescue")
• Citronelle (named after the citrus trees.)
• Dauphin Island (named after the Dauphin, French crown prince)
• Fayette County
• Lamar County
• Marion (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry)
• Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe)

Alaska

• 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".
• Gastineau Channel named after John Gastineau, an English Civil Engineer and Surveyor with a French surname
• Juneau named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner

Arizona

• Clemenceau (Named after the World War 1 French Premier)
• Picket Wire (Corruption of the French Purgatoire, "Purgatory")

Arkansas

• Arkansas (named by French explorers from Indian word meaning "south wind")
• Antoine
• Aurelle
• Auvergne
• Barraque
• Bayou
• Beauchamp
• Beaudry
• Belleaire
• Belleville ("Beautiful City")
• Bellfonte
• Boeuf
• Bois D'arc ("wood of ark "local wood traded by the Native Americans)
• Bonair
• Buie
• Burdette
• Cache
• Cadron
• Calumet
• Calvin (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant)
• Champagnolle
• Chancel
• Chicot County
• Claude
• Cloquet
• Darcy
• De Roche
• Deberrie
• Delaplaine
• Departee
• Devue
• Dumas
• Ecore Fabre
• Fayetteville (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette)
• Fontaine
• Fourche
• Fourche Lafave
• Fourche Valley
• Francure
• French
• Frenchman's Bayou
• Frenchport
• Gallatin
• Grand Glaise
• Gravette
• La Fave
• La Grue
• La Grue Springs
• Lacrosee
• Ladelle
• Lafayette County
• LaGrange
• Lamartine
• L'Anguille
• Lapile
• Larue
• Latour
• Lave Creek
• Levesque
• Little Rock (A translation of La Petite Roche)
• Macon
• Marais Saline
• Marche
• Marie Saline
• Maumee
• Maumelle
• Monette
• Mont Sandels
• Montreal
• 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)
• Prairie County
• Rendezvous
• Sans Souci
• Segur
• Sevier County
• Smackover (Anglicization of Sumac Couvert, "covered in sumac")
• Soudan
• Terre Noire
• Terre Rouge (redland or red earth)
• Tollette
• Tully
• Urbanette
• Vallier
• Vaucluse
• Vaugine
• Vidette
• Villemont

California

• Artois (named after Artois, France)
• Beaumont
• Bel Air ("Good Air")
• Belmont
• Bonnefoy ("Good Faith")
• Butte County
• Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry)
• Guerneville
• Lafayette (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette)
• Lebec
• Montclair ("Clear Mountain")
• Orange
• Orange County
• Rubidoux

Colorado

• Ault
• Berthoud Pass and town of Berthoud
• Bethune
• Bijou Creek
• Cache La Poudre River ("hide the powder" or "powder cache")
• De Beque
• Fremont County
• Grand County
• Lafayette
• Laporte (from la porte, "the door")
• La Salle
• Louisville
• Parachute Creek
• North and South Platte Rivers
• Platteville
• Purgatoire River
• St. Vrain Creek

Connecticut

• Ballouville
• Montville
• Orange
• Pomfret Landing
• Versailles
• Versailles Pond in New London County

Delaware

• Delaware named after Lord de la Warre (originally de la Guerre meaning; "of the war"),

Florida

• Belandville (failed "colony" in northern Santa Rosa County, approximately one mile south of its border with Escambia County, Alabama)
• Brevard County
• Collier County
• Duval County (named for William Pope DuVal)
• La Belle ("The Beauty", "The Beautiful" or "Beautiful Woman")
• Lafayette County
• Marion County
• Orange County
• Ribault River (named for Jean Ribault leader of the Huguenot colony Fort Caroline in early Florida whose inhabitants were massacred by the Spanish)

Georgia

• Berrien County
• Fannin County
• Fayette County
• LaGrange ("The Barn", named for the French Estate of Marquis de Lafayette)
• Lanier County
• Macon

Hawaii

• Fort DeRussy (named for Lewis and René Edward De Russy, soldiers of Huguenot ancestry)

Idaho

• Arbon
• Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
• Blanchard
• 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
• Butte ("Hill")
• Cache
• Coeur d'Alene ("Heart of the Awl")
• Culdesac ("Dead End")
• Dubois ("of the wood")
• Fremont County
• Grandjean
• Grangeville ("barn city")
• Jacques
• Labelle
• Laclede
• La Fleur ("the Flower")
• Malad City (from malade, French for "sick")
• Michaud
• Montour
• Montpelier
• Nez Perce County (from the Nez Perce Tribe's name "nez percé" meaning "pierced nose")
• Paris
• Payette (named after François Payette)
• 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 River ("Beautiful Bank") (French military commander)
• Belleville ("Beautiful City")
• Bonpas Creek ("Good Step")
• Bourbonnais (named for a region in Central France)
• Bureau County ("Office"; person's name)
• Cache River (hidden river)
• Champaign
• Chicago, although not a French place name in itself, shikaakwa or "wild onion" in the Native-American Miami-Illinois language, the pronounciation the "chi" (as opposed to the "chi" in China) is the result of early French settlement
• Creve Coeur ("Heartbreak"; early French fort)
• Des Plaines ("of the Plains")
• Des Plaines River
• Du Bois (from the woods)
• DuPage River
• DuQuoin (name of an Illiniwek chief)
• Embarras ("Predicament")
• Fayette County (after LaFayette)
• Joliet (named after explorer Louis Jolliet)
• La Grange ("The Barn")
• 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.")
• Marseilles (after Marseille)
• Massac (French Minister)
• Menard County (after Pierre Menard)
• Prairie du Rocher ("Prairie of the Rock")
• St. Georges (Note: retains the silent "s" from the French)
• Versailles (for the French city and palace)

Iowa

• Audubon
• Belle Plaine
• Belleville
• Bellevue
• Belmond
• Belmont
• Bennezette
• Bonaparte
• Bondurant
• Boyer
• Chariton
• Clutier
• Des Moines (from Rivière des Moines, "River of the Monks", the river flowing through the city)
• Dubuque (named after explorer Julien Dubuque)
• Durant
• Fayette
• Fontanelle
• Fort de la Trinité
• Fremont
• Lafayette
• La Grange ("The Barn")
• La Motte
• La Porte ("The Door")
• Le Grand ("The Great")
• Le Mars
• Le Roy ("The King")
• Marquette
• Martelle
• Mondamin
• Muscatine
• Orleans
• Paris
• Platte
• Prairie
• Rinard
• Tête des Morts ("Head of the Dead Ones")

Indiana

• Delaware County
• Dubois County
• Fayette County
• 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.)
• Lafayette (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette)
• LaGrange County
• Ligonier
• Saint Leon, Indiana
• Terre Haute ("High Ground")
• Versailles
• Vincennes (named for François Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes)

Kansas

• Bourbon County
• La Cygne ("The Swan"; after the Marais des Cygnes River, which was named by French explorers)
• Labette County
• Marais des Cygnes River
• Marion County

Kentucky

Cities

• Bellefonte
• Bellemeade
• Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight")
• Frenchburg
• La Center
• La Grange
• LaFayette
• Louisville (named in honor of King Louis XVI in 1778)
• Paris
• Versailles

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
• Avoyelles Parish
• Baton Rouge ("Red Stick")
• Bayou Gauche ("Left Bayou")
• Beauregard Parish
• Belle Chasse ("Good Hunting")
• Bienville Parish
• Bossier City (after Pierre Bossier)
• Bossier Parish
• Breaux Bridge
• Broussard (after merchant Valsin Broussard, of Acadian descent)
• Chalmette ("Pasture land, fallow land")
• Chataignier ("Chestnut tree")
• Des Allemands ("of the Germans")
• Destrehan (named in honor of Jean N. Destréhan, Creole politician)
• Dulac ("of the lake")
• Evangeline Parish
• Faubourg Marigny New Orleans neighborhood
• Faubourg Tremé New Orleans neighborhood
• Grand Coteau
• Grosse Tête ("big head")
• Iberville Parish
• Jean Lafitte (named for Jean Lafitte, a famous pirate)
• Lafayette (named for the Marquis de La Fayette.)
• Lafourche Parish (from la fourche, referring to a forked path)
• LaPlace (named for early settler Basile LaPlace.)
• Mandeville (named for developer Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville)
• Metairie (from a French word for sharecropping)
• Napoleonville (for French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte)
• New Orleans (named for the duke of Orléans, France)
• Paradis ("Paradise")
• Pointe à la Hache ("Axe Spike")
• Pointe Coupee Parish (from pointe coupée, "cut spike")
• St. Landry Parish
• St. Martinville
• Terrebonne Parish ("Good Ground")
• 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)
• Calais (after Calais, France)
• Frenchville
• Isle au Haut
• Paris
• 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")

Maryland

• Bel Air ("Good Air")
• Havre de Grace (named after Le Havre (originally Le Havre de Grâce, literally "haven of grace"), France)

Massachusetts

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

Michigan

• Allouez (named after missionary Claude-Jean Allouez)
• Au Sable River
• Belleville ("Beautiful City;" named for a Paris district)
• Berrien County
• Bois Blanc Island ("White Wood")
• Cadillac (named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac)
• Charlevoix (named for Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), a French Jesuit in New France)
• Detroit ("Strait")
• Ecorse (from Rivière aux Écorces, "Bark River")
• Grand Blanc ("Large White")
• Grand Marais ("Large Marsh")
• Gratiot County
• Grosse Ile ("Big Island")
• Grosse Pointe ("Big Point")
• Isle Royale National Park ("Royal Island")
• L'Anse ("The Cove")
• Les Cheneaux Islands ("The Channels")
• Marquette (named after explorer Jacques Marquette)
• 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)
• Pere Marquette River (for Father (père) Jacques Marquette)
• Presque Isle (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
• Sault Ste. Marie ("St. Mary's Rapids")
• St. Clair County
• St. Ignace (French rendition of St. Ignatius)
• St. Joseph

Minnesota

• Albertville, named after a city in France
• Argyle (from the French Argile, "clay")
• Audubon
• Baudette
• Belle Plaine [1]
• Belle Prairie Township
• Bois de Sioux River ("woods of the Sioux")
• Bois Forte Indian Reservation ("hard wood")
• Cloquet
• Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")
• Detroit Lakes ("narrows lake")
• Duluth (named after Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut)
• Faribault County
• Fond du Lac Indian Reservation ("bottom of the lake")
• Frontenac State Park
• Frontier ("Border" refers to its position on the Minnesota/Ontario border)
• Glese (From the French "glaise" or clay)
• Grand Marais ("Big Marsh"; some speculate "Big Harbor" in founders' accent)
• Hennepin County (named in honor of the 17th-century French explorer Father Louis Hennepin)
• Huot, Minnesota named after French-Canadian settler Louis Huot
• La Crescent
• La Porte (The Door)
• La Prairie
• Lac qui Parle ("lake that speaks")
• Lac Vieux Desert ("lake of the old clearing")
• Lake Traverse
• Le Sueur ("the sweat")
• Lyon County
• Mille Lacs ("one thousand lakes")
• Mille Lacs County
• Nicollet County
• Pelland
• Pomme de Terre ("potato")
• Roseau ("reed")
• Renville County, Minnesota
• Roseville
• St. Cloud (named after a Paris suburb; St.Cloud is actually Clodoald, grandson of the King Clovis of the Franks)
• St. Croix River
• St. Hilaire
• St. Louis Park
• Terrebonne ("good land")
• Traverse County
• Vadnais Heights, suburb of Saint Paul
• Lake Vermilion
• Voyageurs National Park, (named after the French-Canadian explorers - "travellers")

Mississippi

• Amite County (from amitié, "friendship")
• Bay St. Louis (from Baie Saint-Louis)
• Beaumont
• Bellefontaine
• Benoit
• Biloxi
• Bourbon
• Carriere
• Centreville (note the "re" spelling of "centre" as oppossed to "center")
• Clermont Harbor
• De Lisle
• D'Iberville (named after Pierre Lemoyne, Sieur d'Iberville, governor of New France)
• Fayette
• Gautier (Named for the Gautier family, who established a homestead on the site in 1867.)
• Pass Christian (Named after Nicholas Christian L'Adnier)
• Petit Bois Island ("Little Woods")
• Point aux Chenes ("Oak Point")
• Saucier

Missouri

• Audrain County
• Bourbeuse River
• Cape Girardeau
• Castor River
• Creve Coeur ("Heartbreak")
• River Des Peres
• Marais des Cygnes River
• Pomme de Terre Lake ("Potato")
• Pomme de Terre River ("Potato")
• Portage des Sioux
• Rocheport
• St. Francois Mountains
• St. Louis (named in honor of King Louis IX, later canonized as Saint Louis)
• Ste. Genevieve (after the patron saint of Paris)
• Versailles

Montana

• Belle Creek
• Choteau
• Dupuyer
• Froid ("Cold")
• Gallatin County
• Havre (from Le Havre, France)
• Joliet
• Laurin
• Lozeau
• Portage
• Prairie County
• St. Marie
• St. Xavier
• Sonnette
• Teton County ("Teat")
• Virgelle
• Wibaux County

Nebraska

• Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight")
• Du Bois ("of the Woods")
• Fremont
• Frontier County
• Loup County, Loup River ("Wolf")
• Papillion (from papillon, "butterfly")
• Platte County
• Platte River ("flat river")

Nevada

• Frenchman
• Lamoille
• Pioche (named for François Louis Alfred Pioche, financier who purchased the town in 1869)
• Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War, Reno's family name was simplified from the French surname "Renault")

New Hampshire

• Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and politician)

New Jersey

• Bayonne (according to tradition, from Bayonne, France)
• Lavallette (named for Elie A. F. La Vallette, U.S. naval captain of French family origin)
• Montclair ("Bright Mountain")

New Mexico

• Bayard (named for George D. Bayard, Union general in the Civil War of French ancestry)
• Clovis (named for Clovis, first Christian King of the Franks)

New York

• Ausable
• Ausable River ("sand river")
• Barre
• Bellerose
• Belle Terre
• 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
• Chaumont Bay
• Chaumont River
• Clermont
• Delaware County
• Dunkirk (named after the city of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, France, because of the similar harbor.)
• Esperance
• Fayette
• Fayetteville
• Fremont Center (named after John C. Frémont, Franco-American explorer, military officer and politician)
• French Creek
• Gouverneur
• Jacques Cartier State Park (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th century French explorer Jacques Cartier)
• La Chute River
• Lafayette
• La Grange
• Lake Champlain (lake named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
• Le Ray
• Le Roy
• Lorraine
• Louisville
• Maine
• Marion
• Massena (named after André Masséna, one of Napoléon's field marshals.)
• Montague
• Montour
• New Paltz (named by French Huguenots)
• New Rochelle (founded by French Huguenots and named after La Rochelle, France.)
• Orange County
• Orleans
• 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
• St. Lawrence County (Anglicization of St. Laurence)
• Valcour Island (island located in Lake Champlain)

North Carolina

• Beaufort ("Beautiful Fort")
• Camp Lejeune US Marine Corps base
• Fayetteville
• Lenoir

North Dakota

• Belcourt
• Bois de Sioux River
• Bordulac ("Edge of the Lake")
• Bottineau (named for Pierre Bottineau, Métis pioneer, hunter, and trapper)
• Butte
• Cavalier
• Coteau du Missouri
• Coulee
• De Lamere
• Des Lacs ("of the Lakes")
• Des Lacs River
• Fargo (named after William Fargo whose original family name was "Fargeau")
• Gascoyne
• Grand Forks (from the French "les Grandes Fourches" or the big forks)
• Grandin (named after French-Canadian Bishop Grandin)
• Granville
• Joliette
• LaMoure
• Merricourt
• Minot (French word for "bushel" of grain or from minotier for "flour-miller" )
• Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
• Napoleon (named after French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte)
• Renville County
• Rolette
• Souris River ("Mouse")
• 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")
• Bellefontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
• Belmont County (Anglicized "Beautiful Mountain")
• Champaign County
• Clermont County
• Fayette County (for the Marquis de Lafayette)
• Gallia County (Latin for Gaul, Roman name for France)
• Huron County (French name for the Wyandot tribe)
• LaRue ("The Street")
• Lorain County (for the French province of Lorraine)
• Marietta (to honor Marie Antoinette)
• Marseilles
• Vermilion River (Red River)

Oklahoma

• Achille ("Achilles")
• Avant ("Before" or "ahead")
• Ballard (a common French surname)
• Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
• Boise City (from Boisé, "Wooded")
• Le Flore ("The Flora")
• Lucien (A common French given name)
• Poteau ("Stake")

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 a French Canadian member of the Lewis & Clark expedition)
• Coquille ("Shell")
• Deschutes County ("of the waterfalls")
• Deschutes River (from rivière des chutes meaning river of the waterfalls)
• Deschutes National Forest (Waterfalls National Forest)
• Detroit ("Strait")
• Grand Ronde ("Big ring")
• Lafayette
• La Grande ("The Big/Great One")
• Langlois
• La Pine ("The Pine")
• Malheur County ("Misfortune")
• Maupin
• Nonpareil ("Unparalleled")
• Rainier
• Ruch ("Hive")
• Terrebonne ("Good ground")
• 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

• Bellefonte ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Charleroi ("Charles King" -- in reference to King Charles II of Spain)
• Dauphin County
• DuBois ("Of the Woods")
• Fayette County, named to honor the Marquis de LaFayette
• Fort Duquesne, original name of what is now Pittsburgh
• Laporte
• Ligonier, named after Field Marshal John Ligonier, a British noble and officer of French ancestry
• Luzerne County
• Montour County
• Versaille, named after the Palace of Versailles
• Wilkes-Barre (Barre was a British politician of Huguenot ancestry, favorable to the cause of US colonies)

Rhode Island

• Louisquisset
• Marieville

South Carolina

• Abbeville (from Abbeville, France)
• Beaufort
• Bonneau (from bonne eau, "good water")
• Bordeaux (from Bordeaux, France)
• Eau Claire ("Clear Water")
• Fort Motte
• Gaston
• Gourdin
• La France
• Pacolet
• 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")
• Belvidere
• Bois de Sioux River (Woods of the Sioux River)
• Bon Homme County ("Good Man" County)
• Burdette
• Butte County
• Conde
• Coteau des Prairies ("Slope of the prairies")
• Coteau du Missouri ("Slope of the Missouri")
• Dupree
• Flandreau, named for Charles Eugene Flandrau, judge of Huguenot ancestry
• Fort Pierre
• Jerauld County
• Joubert
• Lake Traverse
• Mellette County
• Pierre ("Stone")
• Roubaix Lake, a lake located in the Black Hills

Tennessee

• Decatur County
• Fayette County
• Gallatin
• Lafayette
• La Follette
• La Vergne
• Lenoir City (named for William Lenoir, Revolutionary War general of Huguenot ancestry, and his son)
• Macon County
• Marion County
• Paris
• Sevier County
• Sevierville (named for John Sevier, Tennessee governor of Huguenot ancestry)

Texas

• Beaumont ("beautiful mountain")
• Crockett County (Davy Crockett's ancestors were Huguenots named Croquetagne, one of whom was captain in the Royal Guard of Louis XIV)
• Dumas, named after its founder Louis Dumas
• Duval County
• Fayette County (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
• La Grange (named after the Marquis de Lafayette's chateau)
• 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)
• Marion County
• Menard County
• Mont Belvieu
• Orange
• 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
• Duchesne County
• Fayette
• Fort Duchesne
• Grand County
• Portage
• Provo (named after Étienne Provost)
• Sevier County

Vermont

• Vermont (originally Vert Mont, or "Green Mountain")
• Barre ("Barred")
• Grand Isle County
• Isle la Motte
• Lake Champlain
• Lamoille (either for a misspelling of Champlain's intended name of Lake Champlain, or for the French la Moelle, "the marrow")
• Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
• Orleans County
• Orleans (named after Orléans, France)
• Vergennes

Virginia

• Amissville
• Barboursville
• Basye
• Bavon
• Belmont
• Bertrand
• Boissevain
• Bon Air
• Botetourt County
• Capron
• Caret
• Cedon
• Champlain
• Chantilly, named after Chantilly, France
• Clary
• Crozet
• Delaplane
• Dogue
• Fauquier County
• Fremont
• La Crosse
• Macon
• Manquin
• Mauzy
• Montpelier
• Raphine
• Renan
• Rochelle
• Sabot
• Turbeville

Washington

• Beaux Arts Village (from "fine arts")
• Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
• Des Moines ("of the Monks")
• Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow")
• La Crosse
• 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)
• Loup Loup (from loup, "wolf")
• Normandy (named after Normandy)
• North Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
• Palouse (from pelouse, meaning "lawn")
• Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring")
• Puget Sound named after Peter Puget, Royal Navy officer of Huguenot descent

West Virginia

• Bayard
• Belle
• Belmont
• Despard
• Fayette
• Fayette County
• Fayetteville
• French Creek
• 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
• 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 (after Claude-Jean Allouez)
• 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 Argonne Forest in France)
• Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain")
• Bellevue ("beautiful view")
• Bois Brule River ("burnt wood")
• Calumet County (French for Menominee peace pipe)
• Couderay (from lac courte oreilles, "short ears")
• De Pere (from les rapides des pères, "the rapids of the fathers")
• De Soto
• Eau Claire ("clear water")
• Eau Galle ("gall water")
• Eau Pleine ("full water")
• Flambeau ("torch")
• Fond du Lac ("bottom of the lake")
• Grand Chute ("big falls")
• Green Bay (anglicized from the French baie verte, previously "Baie des Puants" - "Bay of Stinks")
• La Crosse ("the crozier")
• La Farge
• La Grange (originally "La Grane" after the native place of General La Fayette)
• 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")
• Marquette (after Father Jacques Marquette)
• Montreal ("Royal Mountain", after Montréal, Québec)
• Nicolet National Forest (after Jean Nicolet)
• Portage (originally named for the Fox-Wisconsin portage)
• Prairie du Chien ("dog prairie")
• Prairie du Sac ("Sheaf prairie")
• Presque Isle (from presqu'ile, "peninsula")
• Racine ("root", after the Root River)
• Radisson ("radish")
• St. Croix Falls (named for a French traveler, M. St. Croix)
• Superior (from Lake Superior/Supérieur - meaning "upper" in this context)
• Trempealeau River (from "trempe à l'eau", "plunge into the water")

Wyoming

• Cheyenne
• Grand Teton National Park (from French grands tétons, "large teats" - presumably referring to the mountains' shape)
• Laramie

See also

• List of U.S. state name etymologies
• Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
• List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
• List of Chinook Jargon placenames