Waggaman is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Waggaman is on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, within the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area.

George Augustus Waggaman settled in the area with his wife, Camille Arnoult, who inherited a large tract of land there.

The two built a considerable plantation which they named Avondale, which later succumbed to the Mississippi River in 1892.

Across the Mississippi, it is bordered to the north by Kenner, to the northeast by River Ridge, and to the east by Harahan.

U.S. Route 90 forms the southern border of Waggaman and leads east 14 miles (23 km) into New Orleans.