Minnesota
- Albertville, named after a city in France
- Argyle (from the French Argile, "clay") (or from Argyll in Scotland?)
- Audubon
- Baudette
- Belle Plaine
- Belle Prairie Township
- Bois de Sioux River ("woods of the Sioux")
- Bois Forte Indian Reservation ("hard wood")
- Brule River (from the Ojibwe name Wiskode-zibi "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).
- Cloquet
- Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")
- Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
- Detroit Lakes ("narrows lake")
- Duluth (named after Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut)
- Faribault
- Faribault County, named for Jean-Baptiste Faribault, French-Canadian trader
- 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 Porte (The Door)
- La Prairie
- Lac qui Parle ("lake that speaks")
- Lac Vieux Desert ("lake of the old clearing")
- Lake Traverse
- Le Sueur (named for Pierre-Charles Le Sueur)
- Mille Lacs County
- Mille Lacs Lake ("one thousand lakes")
- Nicollet County
- Pelland
- Pomme de Terre ("potato")
- Roseau ("reed")
- Renville County, Minnesota
- Roseville
- St. Cloud (named after a Paris suburb; St.Cloud is Saint Clodoald, grandson of the Frankish king Clovis I)
- St. Croix River
- St. Hilaire
- St. Louis Park
- 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)
- Terrebonne ("good land")
- Traverse County
- Vadnais Heights, suburb of Saint Paul
- Lake Vermilion
- Voyageurs National Park, (named after the French-Canadian explorers - "travellers")
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin