Yes, TIGER imported everything with names and not refs, so that tracks, however, it's also acknowledged that it wasn't a very good import, in part and among other reasons, because the TIGER data didn't have a concept of ref.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only
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