As an aside, my aunt and uncle were down at city hall in their home town of about 80,000 residents when they stumbled upon a guy and a map. He told them he was trying to come up with street names for a new development.
My aunt asked to have a street named after my uncle.
The guy asked what he has done for the city. Well, my uncle played trombone in the city band.
Done. Now they have a street bearing their last name.
It’s the other way around.
Stand back, everyone, stand back. You with the armadillo, take your hat off. Okay, here it comes, duck your heads a little bit…
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSHH!
Here in Colorado Springs, we have many obscure areas… there is the Hell area (Purgatory Drive, and Deliverance), (When we moved here, the kids wanted us to buy a house on Purgatory Lane… they thought that was a RIOT!) we also have the usual Tree Themes, and Flower themes. ALso, we have a weather area (Stratus, Cirrus, Thundercloud, Contrails…) Then, there are the misscellaneous names: Nevermind, Teeter Totter, Happy, Whimsical!
We also have a Smoocher’s Lane. I like that one!
It would definitely be a factor.
I can’t imagine buying a house in a subdivision, but if I had to for some reason, I’d like to at least be permitted the dignity of not living on Makayla Street or Peanut Brittle Way. It would be a lot easier to bear if I could live on Pine Street or something.
I have to wonder if developers even give this factor any thought when choosing street names.
I do live on a Broad Street! I’ve never thought of it that way. 
I wouldn’t want to live on Yankee Doodle Drive. What’s really odd is that the surrounding streets all have fairly normal names. Friar Tuck Drive, which parallels Yankee Doodle Drive, would be okay, though.
I gre up in an area where all the streets were female names - my family moved from Pamela to Kathleen. The other side of the main road were all male names. I preferred the naming convention not that far away where all the streets were named after British battles - Balaclava, Badajoz, Culloden, Agincourt, Abuklea and so forth. The bigger ones were all 19th-Century. I think that they probably started there and went further back as they needed more names.
My mother lives in a suburb called Pearl Beach, where all the streets (except Pearl Beach Drive) are (to the best of my knowledge - it might be 'were) named after semi-precious stones. There were a Cornelian, an Agate and so forth, but no Diamond or Ruby.
The street I’m currently living in was named after a pub that used to be on the corner, but relocated a little over 100 years ago.
Sorry for the double post - I had to find it. There’s a neighborhood in suburban Baltimore where the streets are named after airplane parts.
Aero Acres - including Propeller Drive, Fuselage Avenue, Right Wing Drive, Left Wing Drive, Cockpit Drive, Left Aileron, Right Aileron, Stabilizer Drive, Yawmeter Drive, Compass Road, Beacon Road, Taxi Way and Runway Court.
The streets of faculty housing at the University of California, Irvine are all named for folks you would study:
http://www.uhills.org/comm/streetnames.htm
Louisa May **Alcott **- American author
Bela **Bartók **- Hungarian composer
William **Blake **- British poet and artist
Marie **Curie **- French physicist/chemist
Charles **Dickens **- British novelist
George **Eliot **(Mary Ann Evans) - English novelist
Robert **Frost **- American poet
Louis A. **Fuertes **- American ornithological painter
Josiah Willard **Gibbs **- American physical chemist
**Gabrielino **Indians
Georg Friederich **Händel **- German composer
William **Harvey **- British physician
Jarnes Joyce- Irish novelist and poet
John **Locke **- British philospher and political theorist
Barbara **McClintock **- American geneticist
Gregor Johann **Mendel **- Austrian botanist
Murasaki **Shikibu **- Japanese novelist
Sir Isaac **Newton **- British mathematician and natural philosopher
Georgia O’Keeffe - American artist
Robert **Owen **- British/American social reformer
Frances **Perkins **- American social worker and politician
Bertrand **Russell **- British mathematician, philosopher and author
Franz Peter **Schubert **- Viennese composer
Count Rumford **Thompson **- American/British physicist
Mark **Twain **(Samuel Clemens) - American writer
Harold Clayton **Urey **- American physicist/chemist
Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) - Roman poet
James Abbott McNeil **Whistler **- American painter and etcher
Walt **Whitman **- American poet
Charles **Young **- American astronomer
Emile **Zola **- French author and founder of naturalism
Naming the roads after women is okay, but unless there’s a Della St. and a Margaret Ct., it’s a definite missed opportunity.
Palo Alto, Ca
Lois Lane
The town of Ajax, Ontario names its streets after the crew of HMS Ajax (of the battle of the River Plate) http://www.townofajax.com/Page374.aspx
The one I’d like to live in though is the development with the streets named by Sir Terry Pratchett
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7984118.stm
The area I grew up in you could drive down Overhill, then go one block over and drive down Overdale.
No Dusty Trail, sorry.
Forgot about this (not quite a subdivision, and quite a bit older than the TV show):
In Los Alamos, NM, there are a number of streets named after the history of the atomic bomb. One of the main roads through town is Trinity Drive. There is also a Bikini Road, an Oppenheimer Road, an Eniwetok Boulevard, and a Manhattan Loop.
I grew up in a neighborhood who’s feeder street is “Vineyard” and who’s streets are all French wines. In a subdivision of Ottawa, Canada. Where no french wine grapes would dare tread past November.
After house-hunting for months and months, I can definitively say that the name of the street would have no bearing on whether or not I purchased the house. I mean, I’d hate writing Jingle Bell Lane on forms all the time, but it wouldn’t prevent me from buying a house that I wanted! Sheesh, it was hard enough finding an acceptable house!
That said, the most amusing one I’ve seen here is SOL Court. At first I thought it had to do with the sun, but I’ve since decided that someone had a sneaky sense of humor.
“Contrails” in a cloud-theme neighborhood gives me the giggles too.
I was doing a land survey in Shelby North Carolina and saw a mobile home park with this theme. The girl with me thought it was cute until I pointed out the unintended humor of naming a mobile home park after Gone With The Wind.
There’s an island subdivision in my county with three streets in a row: Damfiknow, Damficare, and Damfiwill.
Our neighborhood in Ft Collins, CO, had streets all named after cattle breeds. Our street, for example, was Charolais Drive.