North Dakota
- Belcourt
- Bois de Sioux River
- Bordulac ("Edge of the Lake")
- Bottineau (named for Pierre Bottineau, Métis pioneer, hunter, and trapper)
- Butte
- Cavalier (from "chevalier", knight)
- Charbonneau
- Chateau de Mores State Historic Site (home and ranch built in the 1880s by the French cattle baron and nobleman Marquis de Morès)
- Coteau du Missouri
- Coulee
- De Lamere
- Des Lacs ("of the Lakes")
- Des Lacs River
- Fargo (named after William Fargo whose original family name was "Fargeau")
- Gascoyne (maybe from the French region "Gascogne")
- Grand Forks (from the French "les Grandes Fourches" or the great forks)
- Grandin (named after French-Canadian Bishop Grandin)
- Granville (from "grand" = big, "ville" = city)
- Joliette (maybe from "jolie" = pretty)
- LaMoure
- Medora (named by the French nobleman Marquis de Morès for his wife Medora)
- Merricourt
- Minot (French word for "bushel" of grain or from minotier for "flour-miller" )
- Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
- Napoleon (named after French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte)
- Renville County
- Rolette
- Souris River ("Mouse")
- Verendrye (named for Pierre de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian officer and explorer)
- Voltaire (named for Voltaire, French Enlightenment philosopher)
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
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