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

Washington

  • Beaux Arts Village (from "fine arts")
  • Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
  • Belfair
  • Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
  • Blanchard (Old French for "Whitish")
  • Boistfort
  • Brier
  • Coulee City
  • Coupeville
  • Decatur Island
  • Deschutes ("of the Falls")
  • Des Moines ("of the Monks")
  • Doty
  • Dupont
  • Duvall
  • Esperance ("Hope")
  • Fauntleroy (Old French for "Child of the King")
  • Guerrier ("Warrior")
  • Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow")
  • La Center
  • La Crosse
  • La Grande
  • Lamont
  • 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)
  • Laurier (Named after Sil Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister)
  • Loup Loup (from loup, "wolf")
  • Malo
  • Maury Island
  • Mount Rainier (named after Captain Peter Rainier, grandson of the Huguenot refugee Daniel Regnier)
  • Normandy (named after Normandy, France)
  • North Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
  • Ozette
  • Palouse (from pelouse, meaning "lawn")
  • Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring")
  • Pomeroy (Old French for "Apple Orchard")
  • Portage
  • Portage Island
  • Puget Sound named after Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
  • Quinault
  • Quinault River
  • Roche Harbor
  • Touchet
  • Touchet River
  • Vashon
  • Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent

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