What's the most common street name in America?

That year, the bureau published 76 of the most common street names (why 76 streets and not 75 or 77, I don’t know). The official list also showed that there were more Second Streets than First Streets. In fact, it found that Second Street was the most common street name in the U.S., with 10,866 streets (that total includes all instances of Second Street and 2nd Street).

So, your question still stands, and there’s a pretty simple answer. In cartography, unlike in most competitive sports, second doesn’t necessarily come after first — a Second Street can be the logical next street after a Main Street. If you were to add together the number of streets named First, 1st and Main, you’d get 17,562, which would top the list by a long way.

I’ve reproduced the 1993 list from the Census Bureau below and taken the liberty of adding some categories. Those categories reveal some interesting sub-lists. For example, looking at street names that are also people’s surnames, it would appear that George Washington was the most popular U.S. president (or else Americans with that surname are uncommonly famous). True, Washington was also the first president of the U.S. — but as we’ve seen, street naming isn’t just down to who came first. The second most common street name that’s a surname is Lincoln (the 16th president) followed by Jackson (seventh president), Johnson (17th president but also the 36th president) and Jefferson (third).