as a Last Name
- 39,169
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Rivers
Meaning & Origins
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning ‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.
| 890th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 39,169
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Rivers per capita
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