# Rivers (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rivers/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,637 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,888 / 749 (28% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 61, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 35 | 4,224 |
| 2012 | 18 | 7,088 |
| 2013 | 14 | 8,492 |
| 2014 | 31 | 4,633 |
| 2015 | 31 | 4,570 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,151 |
| 2017 | 23 | 5,636 |
| 2018 | 27 | 4,984 |
| 2019 | 35 | 4,141 |
| 2020 | 33 | 4,243 |
| 2021 | 41 | 3,724 |
| 2022 | 34 | 4,274 |
| 2023 | 32 | 4,438 |
| 2024 | 30 | 4,642 |
| 2025 | 15 | 7,421 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 55 | 2,334 |
| 2012 | 59 | 2,230 |
| 2013 | 67 | 2,037 |
| 2014 | 69 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 82 | 1,822 |
| 2016 | 79 | 1,887 |
| 2017 | 87 | 1,776 |
| 2018 | 93 | 1,701 |
| 2019 | 95 | 1,685 |
| 2020 | 99 | 1,631 |
| 2021 | 98 | 1,685 |
| 2022 | 80 | 1,948 |
| 2023 | 50 | 2,648 |
| 2024 | 54 | 2,519 |
| 2025 | 45 | 2,828 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## People named Rivers

- Rivers Cuomo, American musician (born 1970)
- William Halse Rivers Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864–1922)
- Clarence King, American geologist (1842-1901)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.