# Ever seen a road with your name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585 "2022-07-07T22:48:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/21 "2022-07-08T12:13:21Z")
There’s a whole county in England with my first name. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/22 "2022-07-08T12:26:56Z")
I have a very common first name. Lots of streets with that name. I have a very common surname. Lots of streets with that name, too. There’s a district in Thailand with both my first and last name. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/23 "2022-07-08T12:38:17Z")
My last name is uncommon enough that it’d be highly unlikely. I do, however, have a great-uncle who lives on a road named after himself (Firstname Lastname Lane). When he moved there, it just had some state route number, if that, and when they got around to naming it, he put in a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/24 "2022-07-08T12:51:26Z")
When I moved here I noticed many roads were named after the families who cleared and surveyed them and there are many of those families still in the area and living along those roads. There’s an intersection near me, a crossroads, one is Dick the other Johnson. Lol. My first name is bound to be on a street sign in all 50 states. Featured in Songs and named for companies too. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/25 "2022-07-08T13:06:14Z")
A friend of mine had a somewhat mundane last name, like Small. Growing up, he lived on a road called Small Road. It turns out his family lived on a short street and their house was the only one on it, so they got to name it. So they named it after themselves. I have seen my first name street in New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/26 "2022-07-08T13:24:48Z")
I was named after a street, so… ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/27 "2022-07-08T14:03:39Z")
I’m of German heritage, late 1800’s, and have traveled to Germany. There’s a mountain with my family name along with a street and gasthous. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/28 "2022-07-08T14:21:43Z")
I have a common first name for someone born in the 1950’s but there are very few streets with that name. Add a Saint or St. in front of that name, there are more. There are a few hospitals and a bunch of churches with that name. There are 4 cities in the US with my last name and all have streets with that name. One has a college with that name. Haven’t been able to trace any of the founders of these places as being an ancestor. There is a town in Washington founded by someone with my last name, we are possibly related from about 10 generations ago. While the town does not have his name, a major street across the peninsula and a couple buildings have his name. Back in 2013 I got to ride in a car at the front of a parade through the town as a descendant of the founder. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/29 "2022-07-08T16:30:27Z")
When I leave my driveway, I am on a road with my great grandmother’s surname. I can take that road to another road with my 4 x great grandmother’s surname. I can take THAT road to one with my 3 x great grandmother’s surname. And that road leads directly to one with my own surname on it. But that’s it, sadly. The road with my surname on it only leads to a road with my 2 x great grandmother’s 2nd husband’s surname. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/30 "2022-07-08T18:32:58Z")
I have a common last name, so I’ve seen it several times. There’s one not far from where I live in fact. Back in the 90s when I worked at a health insurance company doing mailings, I noted that it was not all that unusual for people to live on a street that matched their name. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/31 "2022-07-08T18:43:52Z")
I saw a tombstone with my name on it once. Person was no relation to me. That was quite creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/32 "2022-07-08T18:46:35Z")
Did you check to see if there was a blank space left for year of death?😱 ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/33 "2022-07-08T19:01:00Z")
There is a cemetery near where I live that opened in the mid 1800s. Many of the street names in this area can be fond on tombstones in that cemetery. Not mine, though. On the other hand, there have been two US Navy Destroyers that have borne my last name. Two distant relatives were admirals. The first destroyer was in the Pacific during WW2. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/34 "2022-07-08T19:33:02Z")
There is a town, Bonham, Texas, named after a (distant) relative; there is a street Bonham Blvd in my home town named after my grandparents, and a neighborhood development there named after the family (it was once our south pasture, I’m told), and there is a Bonham Trail near Cooks Beach out in California, where I have a bunch of relatives. So a fair number of such places, but I have only personally seen the ones in my hometown. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/35 "2022-07-08T19:44:31Z")
My first name is common as dirt and I’m sure there are lots of streets with that name. In fact, I just plugged it into google ([name] street) and the nearest street is less than 2 miles from where I am sitting now. > [@Chronos](#): > > My last name is uncommon enough that it’d be highly unlikely. I had the same thought, since my last name is based on a singular (small) geographic spot on the globe, unique in that it is not a place name based on any commonly spoken language (so if you meet someone with that last name, one of their ancestors is from that small spot on the globe). But I plugged it into google anyway, and it turns out that those ancestors have spread out globally. There are streets with that name in at least three states and 4 countries. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/36 "2022-07-08T20:42:31Z")
Yes. Not often. I hear the song “A Horse With No Name” come up on the radio more often than I see a street with my name. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/37 "2022-07-08T20:49:05Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > When I leave my driveway, I am on a road with my great grandmother’s surname. I can take that road to another road with my 4 x great grandmother’s surname. I can take THAT road to one with my 3 x great grandmother’s surname. And that road leads directly to one with my own surname on it. > > But that’s it, sadly. The road with my surname on it only leads to a road with my 2 x great grandmother’s 2nd husband’s surname. That’s pretty f’n cool man!! There’s 2 neighborhoods in my city that were developed by the ex-mayor (when he was just a developer, not mayor). Two streets bear his last name, then all the other streets are the names of his kids and grandkids. Some of the kids live on the streets with their last name, but they are women who have married names. As far as I know no one lives on the streets with their actual first names. I think the first name streets are in a 55+ development, and the ex-mayor’s kids aren’t that old yet. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/38 "2022-07-08T21:01:11Z")
I have a very uncommon first name but have seen a street that was one letter off. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/39 "2022-07-09T02:14:49Z")
There are streets and even rivers that use my given name. As far as my last name is concerned, it’s the name of a major brand of cigarettes in the UK, known for their sponsorship of motor sports. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-a-road-with-your-name/967585/40 "2022-07-09T02:37:44Z")
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