Doncaster has the least sexist street names in Britain, according to new survey

Holiday Cottages crunched the numbers from Britain’s 50 most populated towns and cities to reveal which street names are the most popular, and where the greatest imbalance exists between male and female names.

The study found that Doncaster contains the highest percentage (4.9%) of female street names. Meanwhile, Edinburgh has the lowest percentage (2.4%).

Researchers also found that there is a 10% gender gap between male and female street names. Just 4% of Britain’s city streets contain traditionally female first names, whereas male names account for 14%.

But the results also found that Doncaster has the highest percentage point difference of 7.5 between male and female names.

Birmingham has the lowest percentage point difference (4.5%) and Cambridge has the largest difference (11.6%).

Victoria is the most popular female street name and John takes the lead for male names.

Popular female names in Doncaster include four different roads named after Rose, and Carolina, Holly and Mary each appearing in street names three times.

To estimate the gender breakdown of street names, Holiday Cottages scraped the names of 214,757 streets from Britain’s 50 most populated cities/ urban areas from Streetlist.co.uk.

Each street name was categorised into ‘male’, ‘female’ or ‘non-gendered’.

The analysis did not take into consideration the historical reasons for streets being named as they are, therefore there will be plenty of surnames that are not categorised with a gender, but which may actually be named after a man or women by using their surname.