Michigan
- Allouez (named after missionary Claude-Jean Allouez)
- Au Sable River
- Belleville ("Beautiful City;" named for a Paris district)
- Benzie County
- Berrien County
- Bete Grise ("Gray Beast")
- 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)
- Decatur
- Detroit ("Strait")
- Eau Claire
- Ecorse (from Rivière aux Écorces, "Bark River")
- Frenchtown Charter Township
- Grand Blanc ("Great/Large White")
- Grand Marais ("Large Marsh")
- Grand Traverse County
- Gratiot County
- Grosse Ile ("Big Island")
- Grosse Pointe ("Big Point")
- Hamtramck (named for the French-Canadian soldier Jean François Hamtramck from Québec, became a decorated officer in the American Revolutionary War)
- Isle Royale National Park ("Royal Island")
- Lac La Belle ("Beautiful Lake")
- L'Anse ("The Cove")
- Lapeer County
- Lasalle
- LeRoy ("The King")
- Les Cheneaux Islands ("The Channels")
- Marquette (named after explorer Jacques Marquette)
- Marquette County
- 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)
- Pere Marquette Township
- Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
- Portage
- Presque Isle (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
- Presque Isle County
- Sault Ste. Marie ("St. Mary's Rapids")
- St. Clair County
- St. Clair Shores
- St. Ignace (French rendition of St. Ignatius)
- St. Joseph
- Traverse City
- Vermontville
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin