Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Philosophers

We searched every named street in America for Famous Philosophers. One in 309 streets in the country matched! A rare one we found is Pope Francis Way in Mobile County, AL.

40670 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Philosophers

Illinois is the densest

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

1 out of every 164 roads in Illinois 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 People's Court in America

Diana, Princess of Wales · possibly named for The People's Princess

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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 James Earl Drive

Jimmy Carter · possibly named for James Earl Carter

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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 Dr. Martin Lane in America

Martin Luther King Jr. · possibly named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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 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 Pope Francis Way in America

Pope Francis

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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 Mao Lane in America

Mao Zedong

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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 Platon Avenue

Plato

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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 Poor Richard Lane

Benjamin Franklin

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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 Antoninus Drive in America

Marcus Aurelius

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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 Charles Darwin Drive in America

Charles Darwin

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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 Jean Paul Lane

Pope John Paul 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 Helen Adams Drive in America

Helen Keller · possibly named for Helen Adams Keller

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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.

2 streets exist only in Mobile County, AL

Pope Francis Way

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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: Diana

709 roads 337 counties ~14.2M views last year

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Most popular: Gandhi Lane

5 roads 4 counties ~13.6M views last year

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Most popular: Jimmy Carter Way

200 roads 22 counties ~12.2M views last year

Jimmy Carter

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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: Junior Drive

5,230 roads 396 counties ~9M views last year

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Least popular: Hilbert Lane

48 roads 32 counties ~603.8k views last year

David Hilbert

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

Least popular: Horace

186 roads 109 counties ~759.9k views last year

Horace

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

Least popular: Euripides Avenue

1 road 1 county ~850k views last year

Euripides

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

Least popular: Chaucer

415 roads 231 counties ~1M views last year

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Least popular: Sophocles Drive

2 roads 2 counties ~1.1M views last year

Sophocles

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

Least popular: Plutarch Road

3 roads 2 counties ~1.1M views last year

Plutarch

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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.