Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word for a flowing body of water, which ultimately derives through Old French from Latin ripa, meaning “riverbank.”
20062006: 505 births, rank #513
2007: 464 births, rank #553
2008: 611 births, rank #454
2009: 619 births, rank #448
2010: 634 births, rank #432
20112011: 645 births, rank #424
2012: 722 births, rank #403
2013: 830 births, rank #371
2014: 1,243 births, rank #287
2015: 1,516 births, rank #243
20162016: 1,852 births, rank #212
2017: 1,969 births, rank #200
2018: 2,078 births, rank #197
2019: 2,371 births, rank #168
2020: 2,816 births, rank #129
20212021: 3,504 births, rank #110
2022: 3,500 births, rank #105
2023: 3,117 births, rank #116
2024: 3,160 births, rank #112
20252025: 3,139 births, rank #111
River rose from #112 to #111 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 3,504 births.