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How popular is “Rivers” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rivers” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rivers” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rivers” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rivers” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rivers” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rivers” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rivers” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 16 0.000007071 5 11 -38%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 19 0.0000083 7 12 -26%
1923 11 0.000004777 5 6 -9%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 7 7 0%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 -100%
1997 25 0.000006895 6 19 -52%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 21 0.000005685 6 15 -43%
2000 34 0.000008995 24 10 41%
2001 60 0.000016028 40 20 33%
2002 64 0.00001712 35 29 9%
2003 52 0.000013676 27 25 4%
2004 52 0.000013609 27 25 4%
2005 55 0.000014305 22 33 -20%
2006 47 0.00001188 17 30 -28%
2007 59 0.000014759 31 28 5%
2008 54 0.000013738 20 34 -26%
2009 62 0.00001623 19 43 -39%
2010 79 0.000021376 26 53 -34%
2011 90 0.000024605 35 55 -22%
2012 77 0.000021053 18 59 -53%
2013 81 0.000022218 14 67 -65%
2014 100 0.000026981 31 69 -38%
2015 113 0.000030533 31 82 -45%
2016 100 0.000027258 21 79 -58%
2017 110 0.000030759 23 87 -58%
2018 120 0.000034131 27 93 -55%
2019 130 0.000037454 35 95 -46%
2020 132 0.000039514 33 99 -50%
2021 139 0.000041028 41 98 -41%
2022 114 0.000033697 34 80 -40%
2023 82 0.000024764 32 50 -22%
2024 84 0.000025237 30 54 -29%

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