Mr Trump, the president-elect, has not yet commented on it. Mr Trump has been using Trump Tower, which has been the focus of protests after the Republican won the election earlier this month, as his transition headquarters.

It has also been suggested that the billionaire may buck tradition and eschew the lure of the White House and spend much of his time as president at his $100 million (£80 million) penthouse in New York.

Google could not be immediately reached for comment.

It is not the first time people have changed the names of places in Google Maps.

In March last year, towns and cities in Spain were renamed after their former incarnations as Islamic kingdoms almost a thousand years ago.

First to be affected was the Andalucian city of Algeciras, near Gibraltar, which suddenly showed up on the online map service as Taifa de Algeciras, in reference to its brief existence as an independent Muslim principality in the early 11th century.