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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Female Characters

We searched every named street in America for Female Characters. 86 names turned up. A rare one we found is Saint Faustina Street in Allegheny County, PA.

6044 roads in 50 states are named after Female Characters

Louisiana is the densest

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

1 out of every 1,077 roads in Louisiana 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 Mary Teresa Street

Mother Teresa · possibly named for Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

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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 Mary Queen Road

Mary, Queen of Scots · possibly named for Mary, Queen of Scotland

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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.

The only Marie Jeanne Drive in America

Madame du Barry · possibly named for Marie-Jeanne Becu

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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 First Lady Street

Jill Biden · possibly named for First Lady Jill Biden

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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 de Jesus Drive

Teresa of Ávila · possibly named for Saint Theresa de Jesus

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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 Princess Mary Road

Queen Mary of Denmark · possibly named for Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

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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 Bathsheba Lane

Bathsheba

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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 Crown Princess Court in America

Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange · possibly named for Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia

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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 Saint Faustina Street in America

Faustina Kowalska

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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 Maria Teresa Court in America

Maria Goretti · possibly named for Maria Teresa Goretti

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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 Riverside County, CA

Caroline Marie Court

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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: Mother Teresa Lane

22 roads 11 counties ~6.1M views last year

Mother Teresa

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

Most popular: Mary

2,566 roads 996 counties ~5.6M views last year

Mary, Queen of Scots

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

Most popular: Helen Keller

33 roads 4 counties ~5.3M views last year

Helen Keller

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

Most popular: Queen Elizabeth

69 roads 45 counties ~4.9M views last year

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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

Most popular: Queen Catherine Lane

4 roads 4 counties ~3.7M views last year

Catherine of Aragon

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

Least popular: Lillian Wald Drive

2 roads 1 county ~23.6k views last year

Lillian Wald

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

Least popular: Zoe Way

108 roads 83 counties ~27.2k views last year

Zoe Karbonopsina

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

Least popular: Ann Taylor Drive

6 roads 5 counties ~36.3k views last year

Annie Kenney

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

Least popular: Margaret Smith Court

2 roads 2 counties ~50.1k views last year

Margaret Taylor

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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.