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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
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| 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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First appearance
1910
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.
Where Rivers is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- South Carolina#743 · 1 in 4,240
- California#2,203 · 1 in 29,246
Best ever in a state: #304 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #743 | 5 | 1 in 4,240 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rivers
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,177 spots since 2020 (#1,621 → #2,798)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1910 at #1,421 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1918, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 17,435
- 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 39.1% of all boys named Rivers (739) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
- 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.
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