Etymology of place names in Los Angeles County, California

Source of the place names in the city of Los Angeles, California.

Place Name	Source
Alvarado Street	Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican Governor of Alta California from 1836 to 1837 and from 1838 to 1842
Baldwin Hills neighborhood	E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin
Bel-Air neighborhood	Alphonzo E. Bell, Sr., owner of the "Buenos Aires Ranch"
La Brea Avenue	La Brea, the Spanish name for the oil fields near present-day Hancock Park, meaning tar
Cahuenga Boulevard Cahuenga Pass	Cahuenga, the Spanish name for the Tongva village of Kawengna, meaning place of the mountain
César E. Chávez Avenue	César Chávez
La Cienega Boulevard	Rancho Las Ciénegas, a rancho in the West Los Angeles area, from the Spanish term ciénaga meaning marsh or bog
Crenshaw neighborhood Crenshaw Boulevard	George Crenshaw
Los Feliz neighborhood Los Feliz Boulevard	Rancho Los Feliz, originally granted to José Vincente Feliz
Figueroa Avenue Figueroa Street	José Figueroa
Glassell Park neighborhood	Andrew Glassell
Lankershim Boulevard	Isaac B. Lankershim
Leimert Park	Walter H. "Tim" Leimert
Micheltorena Street	Manuel Micheltorena
Mulholland Drive	William Mulholland
Olvera Street	Augustín Olvera
Olympic Boulevard	Named as part of the L.A.'s failed bid for the 1928 Summer Olympics
Pico Boulevard	Pío Pico
Sepulveda Boulevard Sepulveda Pass	Sepúlveda family
Sherman Oaks neighborhood Sherman Way	Moses Sherman
Silver Lake neighborhood Silver Lake Boulevard Silver Lake Reservoir	Herman Silver
Tarzana neighborhood	Tarzana Ranch, owned by the creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tujunga neighborhood Tujunga Boulevard	From the Tongva term Tuyunga, meaning mountain range
Van Nuys neighborhood Van Nuys Boulevard	Isaac Newton Van Nuys
Vignes Street	Jean Louis Vignes
Watts neighborhood	C. H. Watts
Wilmington neighborhood	Wilmington, Delaware, birthplace of founder Phineas Banning
Wilshire Boulevard	H. Gaylord Wilshire