Ryver
Ryver is given to both girls and boys: 63 girls and 73 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,746 among girls’ names and #2,053 among boys’, #2,877 among all names counting both); 1,573 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Ryver every year since 2022.
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Ryver and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ryver by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ryver?
#2,053 among boys’ names, 2025
Ryver rose from #3,574 in 2015 to #2,053 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 42.7 per million.
178 babies in 2022, the peak
Ryver peaked in 2022, when 178 babies were given it (109 boys, #1,609 among boys’ names). The 136 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,746 | 73 | #2,053 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,456 | 86 | #1,873 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,580 | 78 | #1,981 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,572 | 109 | #1,609 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,531 | 57 | #2,405 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,817 | 65 | #2,163 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,322 | 48 | #2,684 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,483 | 54 | #2,439 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,676 | 32 | #3,503 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,153 | 33 | #3,419 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,992 | 31 | #3,574 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,429 | 29 | #3,676 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,078 | 12 | #6,937 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,301 | 23 | #4,359 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,610 | 19 | #4,946 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,448 | 17 | #5,424 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,922 | 14 | #6,363 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,653 | 13 | #6,686 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,679 | 9 | #8,781 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,222 | 14 | #6,029 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,541 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 9 | #8,042 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,630 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,055 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,537 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,733 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,954 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,857 |
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 Ryver a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,573 Americans recorded as Ryver, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ryver: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ryver, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,573 Americans ever recorded as Ryver. The median Ryver alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 610 people named Ryver (262 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 245 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Ryver born?
The states with the most babies named Ryver are Texas, Ohio and Georgia, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
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 Ryver with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ryver?
Ryver is a less common spelling of River: SSA has recorded 1,573 Ryver and 59,351 River since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 60,924 babies since 1880, Ryver is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 4,676 babies (2.9%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ryver
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 Ryver and names like it
- Compare Ryver and RiverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRyver peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ryver since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ryver.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ryver alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.