Anyone have a street, neighborhood or town named for your family?

[ThePhun1]

That'd be cool.

[pj3000]

Like... a street, neighborhood, or town with a surname for what it's called?

If so, there have to be thousands upon thousands of these place names.


How about your own two listed locations, Houston and Galveston?

And Austin, and Dallas, and Killeen, and Tyler, and Lubbock, and McAllen, and Jasper, and Brownsville, and Lufkin, and Lukenbach... and probably hundreds more town names in Texas alone, not even getting into street and neighborhood names.

Edit: the change from "a" to "your" in the title cleared it up for me; sorry for the misunderstanding

[hauntedheadnc]

If you mean, does anyone have something in their city named for their family, then yes. Both my father's and my mother's families had roads named for them in the town where I grew up.

[pj3000]

^ Ahhh, I'm kinda dense I guess (the social distancing is having an effect)... now I get it. I figured I must be missing something, but you never know what thread topics we will come up with on here

[ThePhun1]

Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc

If you mean, does anyone have something in their city named for their family, then yes. Both my father's and my mother's families had roads named for them in the town where I grew up.

Yes, a user on this site, sorry for any misunderstanding.

[Acajack]

I have a road and highway exit named for an exact namesake of mine. In the home region of one of my parents. (I don't live there but I visit often.)

That person has nothing to do with me, but it makes for a cool Facebook profile picture.

[mhays]

I assume many cities are full of them.

In Seattle, the original big families included the Dennys and Bells (Denny Hill became the Denny Regrade, which overlapped much of what we now call Belltown, and both Denny and Bell are streets), the Borens, the Yeslers, and so on.

And of course the city's name is based on a version of Chief Sealth.

Edit: I see this means "your family." Nothing like that, though I once worked with some Dennys (a retired married couple that were on my emplyer's board).

[lrt's friend]

Yes, there is a short street named after our family, on a piece of former farmland once owned by my grandmother. I was able to obtain a retired street sign in the original city colours which I have mounted on the wall. There is also a street named after my grandmother's maiden name, either on or close to land that my great grandparents once occupied. There was also a neighbourhood named after my ancestors (they were pioneers of the area) but that name has fallen out of use in recent years.

[Steely Dan]

One of my maternal great grandfather's cousins moved from chicago to cinicinnati in the early 20th where he built homes in the suburbs and had a street named after him in Lincoln Heights, OH.

My mother's maiden name is a pretty damn uncommon German one, so it's cool that there is a street with its name in a random Cincy suburb.

[photoLith]

Well my last name is Litherland and part of my family from Litherland, England; which is a semi crappy blue collar suburb of Liverpool. Some of the Beatles first performances were at the Litherland Town Hall.

[Will O' Wisp]

Yes, one extremely small town and two streets. All are in separate states. The town is where my ancestors first settled after coming to America, the two streets follow the two major branches of their descendants.

We also share a name with a town in Germany, but it is not named after us. Rather, my family is named after the town. As in, we used to have names like "John of X" but that evolved into "John X".

[mrnyc]

yeah, not a street, neighborhood or town, but a doozy.

two hard core project towers outside cleveland have plaques of my grandfather for getting them funded and built. funny enough, my bro ended up living in one and didn't even know until i happened to see it and pointed it out at the entrance. we said something to my mother and she was like oh yeah, i forgot about that.

mfw

[SpawnOfVulcan]

I'm a direct descendant of one of the founders of Birmingham. The first avenue north and south of the railroad tracks in downtown hold the last names of two of the founders, the one holding my ancestor's last name would be Morris Avenue. There's also a suburb about 15-20 min north of town named Morris.

The town my mother's family is from in deep south Alabama, Geneva, has 3 or 4 streets holding family names of the folks I came from.

[dave8721]

No town named for my family but my family's name comes from a town in Germany.

[Handro]

Originally Posted by dave8721

No town named for my family but my family's name comes from a town in Germany.

I think that's probably the common origin of many of American surnames--that is, a town in "the old country."

Naming conventions throughout history are pretty fascinating. During certain periods, especially the high middle ages, surnames based on a persons place of origin was very popular among nobility and merchant classes (in Europe, at least.) There were also periods later in history where certain ethnicities (Jews, for instance) were forced to take surnames, and in many cases would simply choose their place of origin or occupation. South Asia also has an interesting convention for naming, mostly based on caste and location. That's why there are so many "unrelated" Patels. My ex-girlfriend was Nepalese, and her official last name (as in, on her ID) was a simple two letter abbreviation since, to them, the last mean doesn't really mean much since it is not a familial marker.

[chris08876]

They named a whole religion after my first name... "Chris"tianity.

[Boisebro]

my last name is New York City.

[iheartthed]

There are a lot of towns with my family's name on it, but, most likely, none of them have anything to do with us. My grandfather's distant cousin was a historical figure from the early 20th century, and we have the same last name. There are schools, parks, etc., with his name on it all over the country.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I can't think of anything, anywhere but neither side of my family has done anything worthy of such a landmark. We're just a bunch of humorless, efficient descendants of German immigrants.

[uaarkson]

Baldwin seems to be a pretty common name for roads in the Midwest. But it’s also a really common last name lol