Rivers — #2499 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rivers

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,843 babies named Rivers between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rivers currently holds the #2499 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 99 babies received it in a single year. Rivers is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 734 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rivers performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 739 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Rivers shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Rivers in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rivers in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,843 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.