It would not be all that surprising if you, dear reader, live in a town called Franklin. There are 30 of them in the US, making it the most common town name across the country. (All of them a tribute to founding father Benjamin Franklin.) As 24/7 Wall St. explains, about two-thirds of city, town, municipality, borough, village, and census-designated place names in the US are unique (more than 15,500 names in total); the other third, or about 3,800 names, are shared. The most common ones after Franklin, plus how many of them there are:
- Fairview, 28
- Clinton, 27
- Madison, 23
- Greenville, 23
- Marion, 23
- Salem, 22
- Arlington, 21
- Georgetown, 21
- Springfield, 20
- Manchester, 20
- Milton, 20
- Clayton, 20
Read on for more about the country's least common names.
24/7 Wall St. also compiled a list of some of the least common and most unconventional names. Here are the names it chose as the top 10; obviously, each of them only appears once in the US:
- Yolo, California
- Braintree Town, Massachusetts
- Cut and Shoot, Texas
- Chowchilla, California
- What Cheer, Iowa
- Minnehaha, Washington
- Reid Hope King, Texas
- Kicking Horse, Montana
- Mexican Hat, Utah
- Ixonia, Wisconsin
See the full list of most common names
here, or the least common names—plus more on how the names were chosen—
here. (Check out the
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