Rivers
Rivers is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 45 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,419 among girls’ names and #2,827 among boys’, #5,015 among all names counting both); 2,637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Rivers and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rivers by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rivers mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rivers is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rivers?
#2,827 among boys’ names, 2025
Rivers fell from #1,822 in 2015 to #2,827 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.8 to 26.3 per million.
139 babies in 2021, the peak
Rivers peaked in 2021, when 139 babies were given it (98 boys, #1,685 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,419 | 45 | #2,827 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,640 | 54 | #2,519 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,435 | 50 | #2,647 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,272 | 80 | #1,947 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,723 | 98 | #1,685 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,241 | 99 | #1,631 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,140 | 95 | #1,685 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,980 | 93 | #1,701 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,632 | 87 | #1,776 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,149 | 79 | #1,887 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,569 | 82 | #1,822 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,631 | 69 | #2,057 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,487 | 67 | #2,036 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,084 | 59 | #2,229 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,223 | 55 | #2,333 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,375 | 53 | #2,391 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,008 | 43 | #2,835 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,757 | 34 | #3,328 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,782 | 28 | #3,768 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,421 | 30 | #3,505 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,744 | 33 | #3,152 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,917 | 25 | #3,717 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,780 | 25 | #3,603 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,785 | 29 | #3,166 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,401 | 20 | #4,081 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,938 | 10 | #6,716 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,036 | 15 | #4,709 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,388 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,357 | 19 | #3,699 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 12 | #5,114 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,480 | 7 | #7,623 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,834 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,689 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,562 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 9 | #5,837 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,685 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,087 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,858 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,560 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,531 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,500 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #3,029 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,326 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,952 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,951 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,492 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,459 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 8 | #3,202 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,262 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,646 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,249 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #4,085 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,311 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,119 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,256 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,945 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,500 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 10 | #2,461 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,079 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,878 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 11 | #2,295 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 9 | #2,636 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 10 | #2,419 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,564 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,186 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,449 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 10 | #2,729 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #4,060 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 8 | #3,392 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,098 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #3,101 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 10 | #2,980 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,574 | 6 | #4,156 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,361 | 12 | #2,604 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 10 | #2,946 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,629 | 11 | #2,730 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,328 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,893 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,392 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,276 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #3,194 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 10 | #1,917 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,227 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,703 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 6 | #1,552 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rivers a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,637 Americans recorded as Rivers, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rivers: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rivers, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,637 Americans ever recorded as Rivers. The median Rivers alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,810 people named Rivers (577 women and girls, 1,233 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,804 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 34 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 67 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 827 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,360 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rivers born?
The states with the most babies named Rivers are California, South Carolina and Mississippi, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; South Carolina and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,409 | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #850 | 3.9× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 4.6× |
Where Rivers is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rivers is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rivers with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rivers
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rivers and names like it
- Compare Rivers and TennysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRivers peaked in 2021.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rivers since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Rivers.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rivers alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.