River
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#111
up +1 places
2025 births
3,139
down −21 births
All-time births
39,676
8% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2021
- 3,504 births
- Best rank
- #105
- in 2022
- First recorded
- 1971
- #4,806 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2017
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 46 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 20213,504#110Peak
- 20223,500#105
- 20243,160#112
- 20253,139#111
- 20233,117#116
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #105 in 2022 · peak births 3,504 in 2021
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 67% boys■ 33% girls
39,676 boys · 19,675 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where River has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.