 "<ref name="capemonthly">"De l'Estat de France" 1560, by Reguier de la Plancha, quoted by "The Cape Monthly" (February 1877), No.82 Vol.XIV on page 126|</ref>

Some have suggested the name was derived, with similar intended scorn, from "les guenon de Hus" (the "monkeys" or "apes of Jan Hus").<ref>"Bibliothèque d'humanisme et Renaissance", by Association d'humanisme et renaissance, 1958, p 217</ref><ref>William Gilmore Simms, "The Huguenots in Florida; Or, The Lily and the Totem", 1854, p. 470</ref> By 1911, there was still no consensus in the United States on this interpretation.<ref>George Lunt, "Huguenot – The origin and meaning of the name", "New England Historical & Genealogical Register", Boston, 1908/1911, 241–246</ref>

The Huguenot cross is the distinctive emblem of the Huguenots ("croix huguenote").<ref></ref> It is now an official symbol of the "Église des Protestants réformés" (French Protestant church).