Meaning not yet researched.
Ryver: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,609 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,609 in 2022; #2,053 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Ryver in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,053 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,609.
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Ryver: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,609 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 109 (2022).
In 2025, 73 US boys were named Ryver, making it the 2,053rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 180 places from #1,873 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 86 boys named Ryver in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,609, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #3,575 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Ryver, making it the 2,746th most common girls’ name of the year, down 290 places from #2,456 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 74 girls named Ryver in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,456, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #5,994 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ryver in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 8 babies. In all, 1,573 US babies have been given the name, 44% of them girls and 56% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 872 babies named Ryver.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 635 US boys were named Ryver; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,398 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ryver ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #789 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include River (59,351 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 Ryver 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #789 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,510 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,517 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,746 | 73 | #2,053 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,456 | 86 | #1,873 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,580 | 78 | #1,982 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,572 | 109 | #1,609 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,531 | 57 | #2,406 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,817 | 65 | #2,163 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,323 | 48 | #2,685 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,484 | 54 | #2,440 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,678 | 32 | #3,507 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,155 | 33 | #3,420 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,994 | 31 | #3,575 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,431 | 29 | #3,678 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,082 | 12 | #6,942 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,306 | 23 | #4,362 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,614 | 19 | #4,948 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,451 | 17 | #5,427 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,928 | 14 | #6,367 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,658 | 13 | #6,691 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,683 | 9 | #8,787 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,227 | 14 | #6,033 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,548 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #8,048 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,637 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,063 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,544 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,740 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,960 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,864 |
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).