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River

Rank in 2024
#112
Born in 2024
3,138
Peak year
2021 · #110
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,434 in 2024 (#214)

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 3,138 boys were named River, about 1 in every 547.
  • It peaked in 2021 with 3,503 babies, ranked #110.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1971.
  • 36,498 boys have been named River since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named River per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 1.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 26 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 923 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,633 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 27,916 babies, 1.28 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From river.

  • A unisex given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for River, CC BY-SA 4.0.