Entry № 8755 · English origin

Rivers Rivers — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RIV-erz /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Flowing waters (Joan Rivers, comedian)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "flowing waters (joan rivers, comedian)".

Rivers is from the Old French rivère (river, flowing water) — historically a surname now used as a modern unisex given name. Sam Rivers (1923-2011) — male; American jazz musician.

Flowing waters (Joan Rivers, comedian) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Rivers
Transliteration
Rivers
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɪv.ərz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rivers stands.

Rivers does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Riverss before her.

Real people
Joan Rivers
American comedian.
1933 – 2014
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer lead singer.
born 1970
In fiction
Rivers
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Rivers.

The number behind Rivers.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rivers reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.