A street name or odonym is an identifying name given to a street

Street

A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...

. The street name usually forms part of the address

Address (geography)

An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used for describing the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or...

 (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of Japan

Japanese addressing system

The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. In Japanese, addresses are written using the opposite convention from Western addresses, starting with the biggest geographical entities down to the more specific ones....

, make no reference to street names). Building

Building

In architecture, construction, engineering, real estate development and technology the word building may refer to one of the following:...

s are often given number

House numbering

House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building. The house number is often part of a postal address....

s along the street to further help identify them.

Names are often given in a two-part form: an individual name known as the specific, and an indicator of the type of street or area, known as the generic.