River
302
Babies in 2024
+160%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 423
-14%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name River
River is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (302) are up 160% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
River reached its peak in 2021, when 423 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #119 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 302 represents 71% of the peak.
Across 25 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,241 girls have been officially registered with the name River in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,940 girls were registered with the name, starting from 116 in 2014 and ending at 302 in 2024.