Rivers
Rivers reached its high-water mark in 2020 at number 1,621, and has been recorded 2,637 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,798th. About 2,400 Riverses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Rivers
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Rivers crossed from girls to boys in 2008, having already crossed in 2000, and has stayed there for 18 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% boys, and in 2025 it was 75%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,637
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 1,621st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,798th
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 749 / 1,888
How old the living Riverses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,637 babies given the name since 1910, about 2,400 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Riverss
- Rivers Cuomo (born 1970)American musician
- William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922)English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist
People named Rivers with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rivers is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rivers is most concentrated in Mississippi (15.3×), South Carolina (15.3×), Louisiana (5.7×), Texas (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular boys’ names the year Rivers peaked:
Rivers elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rivers | 61 | 2,892nd |
| France boys | Rivers | 10 | 6,698th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Rivers against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.