List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - Louisiana

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
  • Audubon New Orleans neighborhood
  • Avoyelles Parish
  • Baton Rouge ("Red Stick")
  • Bayou Gauche ("Left Bayou")
  • Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
  • Beauregard Parish
  • Belle Chasse ("Good Hunting")
  • Belle Rose ("Beautiful Rose")
  • Bienville Parish
  • Bonnet Carré, flood prevention spillway on the Mississippi River ("square bonnet")
  • Bossier City (after Pierre Bossier)
  • Bossier Parish
  • Breaux Bridge
  • Breton National Wildlife Refuge (on and around Breton Island)
  • Broussard (after merchant Valsin Broussard, of Acadian descent)
  • Butte La Rose
  • Chalmette ("Pasture land, fallow land")
  • Chandeleur Islands
  • Chataignier ("Chestnut tree")
  • Cocodrie (dialect word for "crocodile")
  • Delacroix Island
  • 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
  • Fontainebleau New Orleans neighborhood
  • Fort De La Boulaye
  • Grand Isle
  • Grand Coteau
  • Grosse Tête ("big head")
  • Iberville Parish
  • Iberville Projects New Orleans neighborhood
  • Jean Lafitte (named for Jean Lafitte, a famous pirate)
  • 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
  • Lake Pontchartrain
  • 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)
  • Paincourtville ("short of bread town")
  • Paradis ("Paradise")
  • Pierre Part
  • Plaquemines Parish
  • 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 Fourchon
  • St. Claude New Orleans neighborhood
  • St. Landry Parish
  • St. Martinville
  • St. Roch New Orleans neighborhood
  • Terrebonne Parish ("Good Ground")
  • Timbalier Island ("timpani player")
  • Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant
  • Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans
  • Village de L'Est New Orleans neighborhood
  • Ville Platte ("Flat City")

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