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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Mathematicians

We searched every named street in America for Famous Mathematicians. One in 222 streets in the country matched! A rare one we found is Alan Turing Street in Prince William County, VA.

56660 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Mathematicians

Massachusetts is the densest

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

1 out of every 81 roads in Massachusetts 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.

One of just 2 streets called Sir Isaac Way

Isaac Newton · possibly named for Sir Isaac Newton

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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 Alan Turing Street in America

Alan Turing

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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 Thomas Alva Drive in America

Thomas Edison · possibly named for Thomas Alva Edison

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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 President Jefferson Court in America

Thomas Jefferson

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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 Avicenna Street

Avicenna

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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 John Forbes Road in America

John Forbes Nash Jr. · possibly named for John Forbes Nash

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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 Nostradamus Court in America

Nostradamus

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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 George William Lane in America

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · possibly named for George William Frederick Hegel

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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 Earl Russell Court in America

Bertrand Russell · possibly named for Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

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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 Leibniz Road in America

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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 Omar Khayyam Boulevard in America

Omar Khayyam · possibly named for Hakim Omar Khayyám

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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 Biruni Street in America

Al-Biruni

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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.

3 streets exist only in Montgomery County, TX

Fermat Drive

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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: Einstein Way

48 roads 25 counties ~21.8M views last year

Albert Einstein

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

Most popular: Leonard

1,755 roads 662 counties ~10.7M views last year

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Most popular: Newton

2,089 roads 670 counties ~8.8M views last year

Isaac Newton

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

Most popular: Washington

29,346 roads 2,267 counties ~6.8M views last year

George Washington

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

Most popular: Galileo

110 roads 59 counties ~6.3M views last year

Galileo Galilei

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

Most popular: Turing St

15 roads 8 counties ~6.1M views last year

Alan Turing

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

Least popular: Bothe Avenue

2 roads 1 county ~61.7k views last year

Walther Bothe

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

Least popular: William Henry Ln

22 roads 14 counties ~73.6k views last year

William Henry Bragg

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

Least popular: Gibbs

553 roads 276 counties ~128.6k views last year

Josiah Willard Gibbs

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

Least popular: Doppler

17 roads 9 counties ~135.3k views last year

Christian Doppler

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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.