Street
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person who lives by the main street of a village or town’; (ii) ‘person from Street’, a place-name meaning ‘place by a Roman road’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Street is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 10K
- USUnited States1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
19,866 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘person who lives by the main street of a village or town’; (ii) ‘person from Street’, a place-name meaning ‘place by a Roman road’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Street counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 19,866 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Street | 405 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 12K | Street | 223 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Street | 161 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Street | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Street | 125 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Street | 61 |
| GL Greenland | 41 | 1 in 1.4K | 41 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | 1 |
19,866 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Street is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Street (Hereford, Kent, Somerset), place-name from OE 'street, Roman road'; first attested Modbert de Strete c1 100–30 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places, for example in Herts., Kent, and Somerset, so called from OE strat Roman road (L strata (via), from the past part, of sternere to strew, cover, surface). In the Middle Ages the word also came to denote the main street in a village, and so the surname may also have been a topo¬ graphic name for someone who lived on the main street.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of strete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, hgitiya, pélé; winding street, péléi jo- kungo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Edmund Streetb. 1824GBBritish architect (1824-1881)
- Anna Mortonb. 1846USnot in their usual nameSecond Lady of the United States (1846–1918)
- Cecil Streetb. 1884GBBritish writer (1884–1965)
- Jessie Streetb. 1889AUAustralian activist (1889–1970)
- Adrian Streetb. 1940GBWelsh professional wrestler (1940-2023)
- Richard Streetb. 1942USAmerican singer (1942-2013)
- Janet Street-Porterb. 1946GBBritish media personality, journalist and broadcaster
- Stephen Streetb. 1960GBBritish record producer, songwriter
- Picabo Streetb. 1971USAmerican alpine skier
- Eva Nottyb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,701 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 12K | #643 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2018 | 42 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2013 | 42 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2021 | 41 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2016 | 41 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2011 | 41 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2019 | 40 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2012 | 40 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1) | 2017 | 39 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Street mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person who lives by the main street of a village or town’; (ii) ‘person from Street’, a place-name meaning ‘place by a Roman road’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Street have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Street, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled street.
- Where is Street most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Street is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Street?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,866 people named Street in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Street?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/streetThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Street”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.