Rivers
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
Given to boys 71.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1910 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,888since 1910
Rivers over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | #2,502 | 54 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #2,614 | 50 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #1,938 | 80 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #1,621 | 99 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #1,678 | 95 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #1,768 | 87 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #1,875 | 79 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #2,375 | 53 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #3,286 | 34 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
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| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
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| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
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| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
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| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | #3,024 | 8 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,822 | 10 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 | #2,486 | 12 |
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | #2,602 | 11 |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,184 | 12 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,421 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Rivers! It came in at #1,421, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rivers
- 296 spots since 2024 (#2,502 → #2,798)
- 1,177 spots since 2020 (#1,621 → #2,798)
- 983 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #2,798)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1910 at #1,421 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1918, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,435 boys born in 2020 were named Rivers (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,957 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,421 in 1910, was only 1 in 32,368 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.1% of all boys named Rivers (739) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 66 | #1,421 (1910) | #2,496 |
| 1920s | 88 | #2,486 (1922) | #3,062 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,185 (1938) | #3,070 |
| 1940s | 60 | #2,333 (1941) | #3,072 |
| 1950s | 29 | #3,024 (1957) | #3,600 |
| 1960s | 22 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,802 |
| 1970s | 33 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,763 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 92 | #3,601 (1997) | #5,860 |
| 2000s | 277 | #2,800 (2009) | #3,686 |
| 2010s | 739 | #1,678 (2019) | #1,979 |
| 2020s | 426 | #1,621 (2020) | #2,192 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rivers in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 48,239 of them was named Rivers, which outranked 76.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,108Yari35
- #4,108Zemirah35
- #4,108Zoelle35
- #4,202Rivers34
- #4,202Abagail34
- #4,202Adaeze34
- #4,202Adali34
- #4,295Aaleyah33
- #4,295Acelyn33
- #4,295Adelita33
Tied with 92 names at #4,202; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 21,825 of them was named Rivers, which outranked 86.5% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,917Roscoe81
- #1,917Thor81
- #1,917Virgil81
- #1,938Rivers80
- #1,938Ajay80
- #1,938Arlen80
- #1,938Caison80
- #1,951Amadeo79
- #1,951Brantlee79
- #1,951Damarion79
Tied with 12 names at #1,938; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.