On Oct. 12, 2025, the San Francisco Chronicle, one of our siblings in the Hearst Newspapers family, published a fascinating article on the city’s 554 major streets.
Among the findings: About 40 percent of them were named after people, most of them men. Many others reflect famous or half-forgotten aspects of the city’s history.
This wasn’t the first time that the Chronicle, founded in 1865, analyzed the streets of San Francisco…