River
459
Babies in 2024
+629%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 459
+12%
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 boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (459) are up 629% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
River reached its peak in 2024, when 459 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #117 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 459 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,754 boys have been officially registered with the name River in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,155 boys were registered with the name, starting from 63 in 2014 and ending at 459 in 2024.