Gender of Street Names and Village Locations

1. What are streets named after?
2. What is the most common street name in the world?
3. Is Second street the most common street name in the US?

What are streets named after?

In the United States, most streets are named after numbers, landscapes, trees (a combination of trees and landscapes such as "Oakhill" is used often in residential areas), or the surname of an important individual (in some instances, it is just a commonly held surname such as Smith).

What is the most common street name in the world?

1. Most popular street names — High Street vs Station Road. Out of 2,323,627 street names, “High Street” is the most popular name with a frequency of 16593 followed by “Station Road” and “Main Street” with 11521 and 7623 entries respectively.

Is Second street the most common street name in the US?

By the numbers.

What are the top four most common street names in America? All four are words that count, literally: namely, Second (with 10,866 streets in the US), Third (10,131), First (9,898) and Fourth (9,190).