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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Ancient Rulers

We searched every named street in America for Ancient Rulers. 29 names turned up. A rare one we found is Ramesses Court in Fairfax County, VA.

4683 roads in 50 states are named after Ancient Rulers

Nevada is the densest

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

1 out of every 773 roads in Nevada 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 Alexandros Court in America

Alexander the Great

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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 Dareios Road in America

Darius the Great

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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 2 streets called Cheops Way

Khufu

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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 2 streets called Menes Lane

Narmer

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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 Ramesses Court in America

Ramesses I

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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 2 streets called Taia Lane

Tiye

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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 Selk Avenue in America

Scorpion II

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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 Ka Drive in America

Ka (pharaoh)

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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 2 streets called The Arts Drive

Senusret I · possibly named for Paton of the Arts

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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 2 streets called Unis Way

Unas

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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 Amasis Court in America

Amasis II

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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 Baka Road

Bikheris

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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 Washington County, OR

Southwest Amu Street

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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: Cleopatra

32 roads 23 counties ~114.6M views last year

Cleopatra

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

Most popular: Alexander

2,944 roads 961 counties ~14.5M views last year

Alexander the Great

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

Most popular: King Tut Drive

7 roads 3 counties ~4.3M views last year

Tutankhamun

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

Most popular: Ramses Road

9 roads 6 counties ~3.3M views last year

Ramesses II

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

Most popular: Xerxes Lane

57 roads 7 counties ~2.2M views last year

Xerxes I

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

Most popular: Dareios Road

1 road 1 county ~1.9M views last year

Darius the Great

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

Least popular: Pami Lane

5 roads 3 counties ~8.6k views last year

Pami

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

Least popular: Wash Way

34 roads 27 counties ~9.3k views last year

Wash (pharaoh)

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

Least popular: Conch

72 roads 48 counties ~19.6k views last year

Finger Snail

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

Least popular: Baka Road

3 roads 2 counties ~24k views last year

Bikheris

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

Least popular: Elephant

42 roads 26 counties ~26.6k views last year

Elephant (pharaoh)

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

Least popular: Bull

301 roads 128 counties ~45.1k views last year

Taurus (ruler)

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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.