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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Acrobats

We searched every named street in America for Acrobats. 31 names turned up. A rare one we found is Yul Brynner in Maricopa County, AZ.

4778 roads in 49 states are named after Acrobats

Alaska is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 1,300 roads in Alaska resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

The only Yul Brynner in America

Yul Brynner

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Nightwing Road in America

Dick Grayson

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Karl Wallenda Court in America

Karl Wallenda

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Red Panda Road in America

Red Panda (acrobat)

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Skyman Road in America

Sylvester Pemberton

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Leonard Hunt Road

William Leonard Hunt

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Charmion Lane

Charmion

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 3 streets called Del Pino Court

Pinito del Oro · possibly named for María Cristina del Pino Segura Gómez

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Charlie Bell Road in America

Charlie Bell (clown)

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

The only Joseph Clark Road in America

Joseph Clark (contortionist)

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

Harlequin turns up in 86 counties

Duela Dent

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

Alexa Way turns up in 58 counties

Aleska Diamond

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

1 street exists only in Maricopa County, AZ

Yul Brynner

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Every name in the theme was counted against every other named road in the country. These appear exactly once: tap a thumbnail to walk them.

The county shown here holds the most of singular roads. Somebody named these roads, and nobody anywhere copied.

Most popular: Yul Brynner

1 road 1 county ~2.2M views last year

Yul Brynner

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Nightwing Road

1 road 1 county ~874.4k views last year

Dick Grayson

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Harlequin

108 roads 86 counties ~219k views last year

Duela Dent

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Alexa Way

86 roads 58 counties ~133.2k views last year

Aleska Diamond

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Karl Wallenda Court

1 road 1 county ~125.4k views last year

Karl Wallenda

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Deadman

26 roads 15 counties ~87.6k views last year

Deadman (character)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Batman

10 roads 6 counties ~8.6k views last year

Robin (Earth-Two)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Marceline

12 roads 12 counties ~14.2k views last year

Marceline Orbes

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Del Oro

85 roads 33 counties ~15k views last year

Pinito del Oro

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Robin

3,432 roads 1,341 counties ~18.3k views last year

Dick Grayson (1989 film series character)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Charmion Lane

3 roads 2 counties ~20.5k views last year

Charmion

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.