Rivers
Recorded 1910–2025 · United States
Rivers was most popular in 2021, when 139 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,810 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,960, with 60 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,637 people named Rivers.
Rivers over time
How old is the name Rivers?
Rivers first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1910, which makes it about 115 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 86 of the 116 years since.
How many people are named Rivers?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,637 American births named Rivers between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,354 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Rivers in 2025?
60 American babies were named Rivers in 2025, ranking #4,960 that year.
Is Rivers getting more or less popular?
Rivers is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 96 births a year, against 92 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +4% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Rivers a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Rivers is a unisex name — 28.4% of the 2,637 Americans given it were girls and 71.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 2008 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 27% girls and 73% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Rivers?
Roughly 2,354 Americans named Rivers are alive today — 89% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 12 years old, and half are between 6 and 19.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Rivers is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org