Meaning not yet researched.
Riven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,414 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 81% of babies named Riven in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,414 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Riven: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,414 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 57 (2025).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Riven, making it the 2,414th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,355 places from #3,769 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 30 boys named Riven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,414, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #7,423 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Riven, making it the 8,246th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,667 places from #5,579 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 23 girls named Riven in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,436, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #11,657 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Riven in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 6 babies. In all, 513 US babies have been given the name, 39% of them girls and 61% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 336 babies named Riven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 267 US boys were named Riven; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Riven ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,731 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Revan (1,138 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Riven in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,731 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,246 | 57 | #2,414 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,579 | 30 | #3,769 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,120 | 55 | #2,472 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,436 | 33 | #3,520 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,630 | 37 | #3,232 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,884 | 12 | #6,952 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,650 | 16 | #5,749 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,046 | 13 | #6,632 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,240 | 5 | #13,841 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,777 | 9 | #8,672 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,657 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,785 | 8 | #9,444 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,783 | 7 | #10,498 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,453 | 6 | #11,959 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,526 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,258 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).