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Roads in America cross referenced with Bon Jovi on Wikipedia

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in Sayreville, New Jersey in 1983. The band consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarists John Shanks and Phil X, percussionist Everett Bradley, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Original bassist Alec John Such left the band in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013. Wikipedia

We take the Bon Jovi article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Matched street names 6

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Left out 2

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
CROSS ROADCross RoadCarried by more than 100 roads nationally854
NEW JERSEYNew JerseyCarried by more than 100 roads nationally1,375

Every Wikipedia entry tried 72

Including the entries that matched no road at all.