Rivers
Rivers is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 54 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 540.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202099 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 2,577people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,843 boys have been named Rivers in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 99 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 40%.
Rivers is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are girls (734), most of them born around 2021.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rivers | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 66 | |
| 1920s | 88 | |
| 1930s | 51 | |
| 1940s | 60 | |
| 1950s | 29 | |
| 1960s | 22 | |
| 1970s | 33 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 92 | |
| 2000s | 277 | |
| 2010s | 739 | |
| 2020s | 381 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Rivers was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Rivers
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Odenpeak 2022
- Holtpeak 2019
- Jeterpeak 2015
- Romeopeak 2024
- Bensonpeak 2016
- Carverpeak 2018
- Laytonpeak 2015
- Mordecaipeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.