as a First Name
From the vocabulary word (Anglo-Norman river(e)). This is one of the names taken from the world of nature in the 1960s under ‘hippy’ influence, and, unlike some, it has survived to the present day. Use as a given name may have been influenced by the surname Rivers, in origin a Norman baronial name from various places in northern France called Rivières.
| 6,286th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,061
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 7,335
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named River per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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86%
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2%
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98%
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