Is Rivers a boy or girl name?

Rivers is a unisex name. Of the 2,637 Americans recorded with the name since 1880, 28.4% were girls and 71.6% were boys. It changed hands in 2008, and has gone mainly to boys since.

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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

Births per year. The dot marks Rivers’s peak in 2021. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

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.

Names that peaked alongside Rivers

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