Rivers is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Rivers
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Rivers

How popular is Rivers?

Rivers is common in United States.

Rivers is ranked 9197 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Rivers bearers increased by 7.454141 per cent in 2010 US census to 38662 since 2000, the surname slipped by 18 spots and ranked at 897. The last name was found in around 131 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Black 50.93 50.21
White 40.47 42.48
Hispanic or Latino 3.4 2.53
Others 2.64 2.26
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.95 1.98
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.61 0.54
Rivers is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Cayman Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 58675 people have been found who wears Rivers as their family name. Rivers is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
98,953 Belarus7
527,030 Indonesia7
475 Turks and Caicos Islands6
2,537 Afghanistan4
2,011 South Korea4
11,480 Japan4
30,723 Georgia3
1,219,338 India3
127,708 Czech Republic3
18,114 Algeria3
1,850 Papua New Guinea3
108,034 Italy3
25,074 Greece3
20,541 Peru3
4,096 Dominican Republic3
9,272 Ecuador2
2,794 El Salvador2
11,224 Cameroon2
6,103 Cyprus2
20,186 Kenya2
10,395 Latvia2
34,681 Norway2
319 Samoa2
1,472 The Bahamas2
19,533 Uruguay1
58,885 Poland1
24,176 Qatar1
799 British Virgin Islands1
16,228 Bulgaria1
25,746 Finland1
77,122 Sweden1
36,814 Romania1
1,421 Saint Lucia1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
19,810 Croatia1
353 Cook Islands1
3,586 Honduras1
8,371 Syria1
83,428 United Arab Emirates1
2,024 Mongolia1
7,790 Zambia1
24,460 Armenia1
3,307 Malta1
2,078 Lesotho1
37,493 Austria1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
101,414 Kyrgyzstan1
5,553 Taiwan1
2,057 Isle of Man1
13,606 Senegal1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
89,397 Ukraine48
3,642 Northern Ireland48
403 United States Virgin Islands36
8,504 Ireland33
36,547 Switzerland27
11,685 Singapore24
416 Guernsey24
52,530 Belgium22
2,892 China15
7,162 Thailand15
11,059 Nigeria13
70,910 Zimbabwe11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
3,494 Panama82
2,783 Jamaica71
17,264 Israel59
38,045 Spain58
1,782 Costa Rica52
Countries with hundreds of Rivers:
1,882 Guatemala738
4,483 Ghana639
11,889 South Africa530
1,466 New Zealand504
23,918 Germany437
515 Trinidad and Tobago436
31,115 Brazil382
1,098 Wales361
45,235 France220
7,648 Venezuela201
66,412 Russia199
3,611 Scotland171
1,583 Puerto Rico163
21 Cayman Islands162
1,291 Nicaragua155
7,193 Chile135
20,168 Netherlands133
528 Belize131
13,194 Malaysia126
8,698 Colombia122
40,399 Argentina119
2,219 Hong Kong107
Countries with thousands of Rivers:
1,846 England4,324
3,307 Mexico2,225
2,285 Canada2,197
12,822 Philippines1,160
2,985 Australia1,032
Countries with ten thousands of Rivers:
908 United States40,825
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Immigrant J. Rivers from Great Britain aboard the Sardinia from Liverpool during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 28 years old when he arrived in USA on May 21, 1847.

From Italy

Ersitia Rivers was 26 years old when she migrated to New York on September 7, 1882. She lived in Genova, Italy where she worked as milliner and took Caldera from Escales & Marseilles.

Rivers Namesakes

  • Abijah Rivers, Soccer player
  • Joan Rivers, Actress
  • L. Mendel Rivers, U.S. representative
  • Jamie Rivers, Ice hockey player
  • Johnny Rivers, Singer
  • Xavier Rivers, Actor
  • Doc Rivers, Basketball Coach
  • Austin Rivers, Basketball player
  • Johnny Rivers, Singer
  • Curtis Rivers, Author
  • In 0, Pamela Rivers characterized the role of Magda, Maggie in drama movie Magda of Budapest.
  • Ashley Rivers, from 0 drama flick The Mysterious Mind of Kylor Creighton, who played Vanessa Rose.

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