According to the last decennial census from 2000, the United States had a population of 281,421,906. All of it except the 280,527 homeless counted by the Census Bureau in the same year and the estimated 4,163,810 American expatriates live at a certain address in the country. A street address is a necessary feature for you, your family and your friends to find your home, to get your mail, for the authorities to get hold of you or even for you to boast around (or to conceal, depending on your town's geopolitics).

Funnily, in the list of the 10 most common street names in the US the first is not the First, but Second Street, followed by Third, First, Fourth (the only street name coherent with its placing), Park, Fifth, Main, Sixth, Oak and Seventh Street. Most people live in streets with designations that we recognize or accept without hesitation, but in such a big country inhabited by so many individuals you always find exceptions, that is, street names that make you raise your brow and get you puzzled, curious, astonished or highly amused.

Quite often these denominations have a story or a history that supports them, they are sometimes old names that modern associations make singular, coincidences or just the brainchild of a whimsical, humorous or original mind, individual or collective. In any case they are really worth noticing.

Here you have a little (but expanding) sample of America’s most uncommon street names.