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Common U.S. Street Names

Did your street make the list? Here are the 50 most common street names in the United States. Name as many as you can!
Quiz by CBTemple
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Last updated: January 8, 2020
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First submittedMarch 5, 2012
Times taken66,500
Average score36.0%
Rating4.40
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#
Street Name
10,902
Main
10,259
Second
9,673
First
9,556
Third
8,628
Fourth
7,557
Fifth
7,281
Park
6,574
Sixth
6,143
Oak
5,732
Seventh
5,636
Maple
5,397
Pine
5,052
Washington
#
Street Name
5,045
Eighth
4,766
Cedar
4,671
Elm
4,366
Walnut
4,312
Ninth
4,232
Tenth
4,011
Lake
3,653
Sunset
3,632
Lincoln
3,459
Jackson
3,453
Church
3,331
River
3,331
Eleventh
#
Street Name
3,280
Willow
3,241
Jefferson
3,212
Center
3,201
Twelfth
3,085
North
2,925
Lakeview
2,897
Ridge
2,883
Hickory
2,834
Adams
2,829
Cherry
2,819
Highland
2,732
Johnson
#
Street Name
2,707
South
2,656
Dogwood
2,652
West
2,649
Chestnut
2,641
Thirteenth
2,594
Spruce
2,584
Fourteenth
2,565
Wilson
2,538
Meadow
2,523
Forest
2,513
Hill
2,498
Madison
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Level 86
Dec 4, 2012
So trees and numbers. Got it.
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Level 75
May 7, 2019
and presidents...
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Level 75
Apr 21, 2020
and geographical features
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Level 76
Sep 11, 2014
So much for the photo being a helpful clue - Bourbon got me nowhere.
+28
Level 82
Dec 21, 2014
Drinking rarely helps when taking a quiz.
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Level 22
Oct 15, 2015
hehe
+1
Level 50
Jun 27, 2020
Depends on where you're headed.
+3
Level 57
Dec 21, 2014
Shouldn't it be "twelfth"? Not "twelth"
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Level 43
Dec 21, 2014
Yea, what happened here?
+1
Level 71
Dec 21, 2014
agreed, I am sure it is twelfth! :)
+12
Level 77
Dec 21, 2014
Isn't it odd that Second Street outnumbers First Street? One really is the loneliest number....
+15
Level 57
Dec 22, 2014
It's because often rather than naming it "First", it's named "Main", and then the numbers start going from there.
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Level 75
May 7, 2019
plus, no town would have a 1st but not a 2nd
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Level 67
Oct 17, 2021
I feel like some town would do that.
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Level 43
Jan 25, 2023
There's towns named the stupidest things you could imagine.
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Level 67
May 7, 2019
Most towns may have main as the "1st" street, then subsequently, 2nd, etc.
+1
Level 65
Apr 20, 2020
2nd outnumbers 1st in the results of the quiz too lol
+2
Level 70
Dec 21, 2014
Major misspelling here - should be "Twelfth" not "Twelth"
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Level 46
Dec 21, 2014
Yeah. When I didn't get "twelfth" I just stopped with the numbers...

but I didn't even think of trees, so the misspelled twelfth was not to blame for my dismal performance. Darn it.

+1
Level 75
Dec 21, 2014
Same here. When Twelfth didn't work I saw no need to keep going with numbers. Not sure how 43% got "Twelth" - surely almost half didn't misspell it, too.
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Level 80
Dec 21, 2014
OK, OK, I surrender! My subtle campaign to change the official spelling to "Twelth" is over. The change has been made ;>)
+1
Level 43
Dec 21, 2014
The answer still shows "Twelth" though.
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Level 55
Dec 21, 2014
I think edits to quizzes have stopped working. The preview looks the way you want it, you can save it and your edits show up in the edit page. But when you submit it - it stays the way it was. I am one of those who stopped with the numbered streets as soon as Twelfth didn't work, so missed out on a few. Otherwise, not bad with my total of 20/50 as I don't live in the relevant country. Missed Lincoln, though.
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Level ∞
Dec 21, 2014
Sorry to everyone for the misspelling of Twelfth which was my fault, and thanks to @CBTemple for fixing it!
+2
Level 21
Dec 21, 2014
What about; 1st 2nd and so on?
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Level 35
Dec 21, 2014
I call BS. Source is a redditt user? It's a user who lives somewhere midwest or east, in a provincial town. No Martin Luther King St.s but Hickory, Willow, and Dogwood. And other streets named for trees no one has seen in the west! No State St. but River St.? Never saw a River St. or a Jackson St. (county, yes, but not street). No Lakeview St. anywhere I have been either. Whoever made this up lived where those trees grow, and where maybe there are rivers, lakes, forests, etc. But when you live in a desert, they don't name streets for forests, rivers, or dogwood trees! Or the president who ordered the Native Americans "resettled." (Except in Wyoming, but they were always different, if you read their history.) I never heard of a Ridge St. either. The numbers were about all that rang true. No Wall St. or Spring St. listed? Surely they are as plentiful as "Highland." Or "Dogwood."
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Level ∞
Dec 21, 2014
If you read the link, they go into their methodology. I'm going to call B.S. on your calling B.S. :)
+2
Level 82
Dec 23, 2014
yeah, seems legit to me. The portion of the United States that is desert is pretty small.
+8
Level 89
Oct 9, 2018
He found 1,000s of streets under every name here so I doubt he just drove around 8 counties of Indiana and said "Looks good to me".
+8
Level 93
Mar 20, 2019
You know there exist something called maps, and it's possible to search them/the index without driving around like a crazy person right?
+1
Level 38
Apr 21, 2020
I feel like there is a Martin Luther King drive in every town in America but not on this list.
+4
Level 39
Dec 21, 2014
There's got to be more than 3,000 MLK's
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Level 84
Dec 22, 2014
No, just because every larger city seems to have named a street after him doesn't mean that all those smaller towns have done so. How many towns in say, Iowa, would have an MLK street? But most would have Oak/Elm/Jefferson/etc.
+3
Level 82
Dec 22, 2014
Streets named for MLK are useful in determining whether or not you are a real American or not, according to Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Fox News etc.

See the useful formula here

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Level 77
Dec 29, 2014
I forgot about the trees. I had some presidents, some landscape and the numbers. And a couple of miscellaneous ones.
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2015
No Martin Luther King? I thought there was one in every city.
+1
Level 45
Apr 25, 2020
in many larger cities, yes.

But, all of those smaller towns in the midwest and mountain states, definitely not.

+6
Level 80
May 31, 2015
I've seen so many streets named after Mr. Oneway that I'm surprised not to see it here.
+1
Level 75
Apr 21, 2020
And what about No Thru, No Trucks, and Dead End? :)
+1
Level 42
Jul 2, 2015
If you want to get a lot of these correct, guess trees, former presidents, and numbers.
+2
Level 44
Jul 14, 2015
Surprised MLK street was not on the list, every city in the south has an MLK street!
+2
Level 51
Jan 22, 2016
This way waaaay too hard for a regular Norwegian. I didn't even think of numbers, we don't do that here.
+1
Level 65
Jul 10, 2016
how is martin luther king not on the list
+1
Level 49
Jan 13, 2017
Half of these are streets in my hometown... Our eleventh street has no numbered streets for at least a half mile in all directions, though, so...
+2
Level 78
Aug 19, 2017
We're very good at naming streets after the trees removed to build them. Funny how you never see a Concrete Boulevard or a Pavement Place.
+5
Level 66
Aug 19, 2017
Surprised no "Broadway"
+1
Level 66
Aug 19, 2017
In Indiana every town has a "Meridian"
+1
Level 77
Aug 19, 2017
Only 7% got my dog... sad...
+2
Level 20
Aug 20, 2017
...why, USA, why...
+1
Level 46
Aug 20, 2017
2nd beat 1st, but still came in 2nd.
+1
Level 55
Aug 21, 2017
Only President I missed was Wilson ... and it's my name! First name I thought of was Madison, and was amazed to see it's the very last on the list! I suppose there are more counties named Madison than streets.
+1
Level 89
Jul 14, 2018
There are more 2nd Streets than 1st?
+1
Level 66
Dec 16, 2018
I got 6 right haha, main street. Then nothing for a lonng while, then thought of presidents, only lincoln and washington took from the onse I tried. Finally I thought of the directions, but weirdly east isnt on there !

If only I had remembered the numbers (after still being on 3 after several minutes I was really stumped, like huh, what DO they call their streets?) Very weird how the ranking of the numbers is quite random.. you expect it would be in order, like why is twelfth lower than thirteenth and fourteenth (ok 13 I might get). 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 1, 7, 10, 9, 8, 11, 14, 13, 12 Quite weird indeed. (ok some have the same percentages, so could also be 2, 3, 5, 4, 1, 6, 7, 10, 9, 8, 11, 13, 14, 12.)

+1
Level 82
May 7, 2019
Not sure what's up with the guessed percentages that is indeed odd. But as to why there are fewer 1st streets than 2nd streets in US cities that's because 1st street is often called Main Street or Center Street or Market Street or Church Street or something else.
+1
Level 60
Sep 1, 2023
Twelfth was misspelled, so that's why it was lower.
+1
Level 66
Dec 16, 2018
I totally forgot us cities are build in grids
+1
Level 55
May 4, 2019
I'm happy to see so many tree species here! Nature IS more in our minds than we think.
+1
Level 82
May 7, 2019
Fourteen ordinals, eight presidents, three cardinal directions, twelve trees, evelen landmarks or geographical features, sunset and main. Pretty obvious. Only kind of surprised at the lack of a Market Street.
+3
Level 52
May 7, 2019
Who else tried Martin Luther King?
+1
Level 41
May 20, 2019
I didn’t think of the numbers at all!! I tried Springfield and also Kennedy. I was under the impression that there are streets named Kennedy and JFK all over the place.
+2
Level 58
Oct 2, 2019
I am not sure why you don't add 2 minutes. It's a fun quiz if you allow people to think a bit about it longer. Right now it just feels like bad sex!
+1
Level 66
Apr 20, 2020
Why does Second come in front of First?
+2
Level 72
Apr 20, 2020
Many towns use 'Main Street' as a substitute for first street
+1
Level 67
Oct 17, 2021
Sometimes first street gets renamed.
+1
Level 61
Apr 20, 2020
As someone from the great unknown outside of the USA, you need to accept "centre" as well as center. It's just inconvenient for someone to need to remember that Americans spell differently.
+1
Level 76
Apr 20, 2020
It depends what city or town you are in the US. My hometown had "Center'. The next town 4 miles away had "Centre"
+1
Level 80
Dec 30, 2022
I am sorry that we have inconvenienced you.
+2
Level 65
Apr 20, 2020
I tried "Central" but not "Center", welp
+1
Level 61
Apr 20, 2020
accept 1rst for 1st
+1
Level 62
Apr 20, 2020
I'm kinda surprised that, given there are significantly more second streets than firsts, there aren't more fourteenth streets than thirteenth streets.
+1
Level 82
Apr 20, 2020
1st Streets are often called something else. Main St, Center St, Market St, Church St, Court St, Capital St, etc might be at the center of town, and then they start numbering the streets parallel to that one after that starting with 2nd. That's why there are more 2nd streets than 1st streets.
+1
Level 31
Apr 20, 2020
Why did more people guess Ninth than Eighth?
+1
Level 45
Apr 21, 2020
I guess i forgot all the other trees because i tried evergreen and beech then gave up with that since that's all my town has.
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2020
yup sounds about right
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Level 83
Apr 21, 2020
got 32 just by naming numbers ,presidents and trees.
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Level 45
Apr 21, 2020
good one

Thank you

+2
Level 72
Apr 21, 2020
Why is east the only primary direction not on this list? Are we too north-south-west oriented?
+2
Level 82
Apr 21, 2020
Maybe streets named after cardinal directions are more popular on the east coast?? That's my only guess.
+1
Level 76
Apr 21, 2020
AKA name the numbers, trees, directions, and presidents.
+1
Level 57
Jul 11, 2020
I can count, name trees, and directions = <91.1% of users
+2
Level 37
Dec 1, 2020
I got 1 and it was Elm
+1
Level 28
Mar 24, 2021
If you were going to do numbers, you should have said so!
+2
Level 61
May 15, 2021
I would expect "Market" to be on the list.
+1
Level 51
Aug 11, 2021
I'm from britain and the most common street names would be high street, or station approach
+1
Level 67
Feb 3, 2022
Did way better than I expected because I started guessing all the numbers, cool quiz
+1
Level 35
May 5, 2022
oh god im on here
+1
Level 67
Sep 19, 2022
Only been to the US once but did fairly well on this. First thing I thought of was fifth avenue which got me going with the ordinals, then sunset boulevard, then main (v common in the UK too), then thought of elm st which got me going with the trees. Then geographical features (also common in the UK). Never thought of presidents but might have with more time!
+1
Level 69
Oct 19, 2022
Not a fan of the thumbnail. Skol Vikings!
+1
Level 43
Dec 30, 2022
forgot about their obsession with numbers. here we have flowers and birds and food and colours
+1
Level 65
Dec 30, 2022
Enjoyable. 19/50 average does tell you something though: Not sure why the time has to be so tight? It's not like its a quiz where many know most of the answers and so speed is needed to add a challenge. The quiz requires quite a bit of thought as evidenced by the low average (19/50) so an extra 2 mins would be good. It's not a quiz for speed, you need the time to think....But thanks for the quiz
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Level 66
Dec 30, 2022
No Uncle Frank Blvd.?
+1
Level 61
Dec 30, 2022
Feels like one of the few jetpunk quizzes where you can see the full bell curve on the score distribution - well done!
+1
Level 48
Dec 30, 2022
Once on a road trip, we passed through "Fun drive rd" It was not a fun frive.
+1
Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
This is so american. I only got a point because I guessed numbers. It's a pity they stopped at 14.
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Level 70
Dec 31, 2022
There's nothing too strange when you think about. Politicians have streets named after them everywhere. Natural features, its purpose, or direction are common elsewhere too. What may not be as common in Old World countries are new city planning conventions for urban grids like naming streets numbers, but it's hardly a crazy idea if you're starting from scratch.
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Level 59
Dec 30, 2022
I missed Pine despite living next to one lol
+1
Level 66
Dec 30, 2022
Kind of interesting to me to see many trees, but not variants of things like "grassy", "sky", shrub, orchard/ranch/field, river/creek, etc.

Maybe they're counted differently (shady creek, and little creek, wouldn't count towards a "creek" entry), or there are too many compound(?) forms (sunshine rd, vs sunny ln)

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Level 59
Dec 30, 2022
have you ever seen a "grassy street" or "sky street"
+1
Level 82
Dec 31, 2022
There's a Skyline Drive in Virginia
+1
Level 33
Jan 3, 2023
as a phasmophobia player i guessed willow and i didnt expect that it really was a correct answer lol
+3
Level 59
Mar 28, 2023
I'd say Sesame Street is a pretty common street name, as it was displayed every episode!

lol, my bad. Ignore my weak sense of humor.

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Level 68
Oct 1, 2023
Who the heck didn't get main street?