Rivers

Where Rivers comes from

The dictionaries list Rivers as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1910
    Debut at its peak, #1,421
    #1,421 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1918
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2008
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Rivers hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.