River Boy Name

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The name River is of English origin, and means a flowing body of water. The table below indicates the number of times the name River has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name River**
Use of the Name River for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
3,624	3,624	3,624	3,483	1,757	796	413

The table below indicates the number of times the name River has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. River first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1994, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name River**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1994	927	141
1995	617	278
1996	632	269
1997	518	389
1998	499	432
1999	560	358
2000	611	314
2001	607	322
2002	613	325
2003	573	383
2004	550	413
Totals:		3,624		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used River as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name River appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 11 times during the last 125 years.

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River Boy Name

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