Gender-neutral · #111 in 2025
River
River: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #111
- Born 2025
- 3,139
- Peak year
- 2022
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
River has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 92% of its 2022 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 35% of children named River were recorded as girls and 65% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.