Rives is used as a family name or surname in Spain. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Rives
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Spain
Meaning: A Catalan and Occitan toponym often used as a surname. Means the person whose house is located on the bank of a river (Latin ripa). Rivas The form is Castilian.

How popular is Rives?

Rives is common in Spain.

Rives is ranked 45694 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Riveses grew by 8.778392 per cent to 3544 since 2000 and ranked 9203 after elevating 6 spots. The last name was found in around 12 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 72.74 77.01
Hispanic or Latino 15.21 10.22
Black 10.05 11.23
Others 1.13 0.89
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.48 0.37
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4 0.28
Rives is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Cayman Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 10520 people have been found who wears Rives as their family name. Rives is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
1,005 Cayman Islands7
98,953 Belarus7
2,915 Paraguay3
108,034 Italy3
1,272 Cuba3
10,686 Costa Rica3
1,219,338 India3
54,135 Philippines2
65,594 Belgium2
50,640 Switzerland2
28,232 Morocco2
14,004 Hungary2
31,584 Peru1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
30,360 Thailand1
134,667 Zimbabwe1
90,903 Moldova1
53,033 Nigeria1
1,542 Andorra1
2,724 New Caledonia1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
29,774 Venezuela1
2,232 French Polynesia1
49,101 Denmark1
531 Greenland1
8,859 Iraq1
4,942 Libya1
12,745 Luxembourg1
40,340 Malaysia1
10,683 Cyprus1
21,562 Portugal1
77,122 Sweden1
1,005 The Gambia1
14,644 Tunisia1
19,533 Uruguay1
13,606 Senegal1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
83,908 England38
85,726 Canada32
64,073 Australia28
220,909 Ukraine12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
83,365 Brazil95
167,668 Russia58
Countries with hundreds of Rives:
7,056 Mexico759
11,383 Argentina478
50,182 Germany202
5,328 Chile189
Countries with thousands of Rives:
9,127 United States4,050
2,189 France3,319
3,805 Spain1,197
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Jackelyn Hammer
banks means the house situated on the bank domain name or surname became hamlet.

Rives Namesakes

  • Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Novelist
  • Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Novelist
  • William Cabell Rives, Former American senator
  • Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Novelist
  • Alexander Rives, Lawyer
  • Richard Rives, Judge
  • Don Rives, Football player
  • Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, Novelist
  • Denine Rives, Cole Rives' mother
  • Fern Rives, Author

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