Alabama
- Barbour County
- Bay Minette ("Kitty Bay" or "Cute Bay")
- Bayou la Batre ("Bayou of the Battery")
- Belle Fontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
- Belle Mina
- Bon Air ("Good Air")
- Bon Secour ("Good Rescue")
- Centreville (note the "re" spelling of centre, as opposed to "er" as in center)
- Citronelle (named after the citrus trees.)
- Daphne
- Dauphin Island (named after the Dauphin, French crown prince)
- DeArmanville
- Decatur, Alabama
- Decatur County
- Delchamps
- Fayette County
- Gasque
- Grande Batture Islands
- Isle aux Dames (Island of the ladies)
- Isle aux Herbes (Island of grass)
- LaFayette
- Lamar County
- Le Moyne
- Leroy
- Malbis
- Marion (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry)
- Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe)
- Mobile County
- Mon Louis
- Montgomery (named after general Richard Montgomery, descendant of the Scottish clan founded by a Norman French family)
- Semmes
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word alabama:
“While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve—and hate will die unborn.
Love—and chains are broken.”
—Langston Hughes (20th century)
“Oh! Susanna, do not cry for me;
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)