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Riven

Riven is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 2,390th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,390th. About 510 Rivens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Riven boys named Riven

By the numbers

Total US births
513
Estimated living today
510
Median age today
4
Peak year
2025
Best rank
2,390th
Rank in 2025
2,390th
First recorded
2008
Girls / boys
201 / 312

How old the living Rivens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 513 babies given the name since 2008, about 510 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Riven is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Riven peaked:

All the names of 2025

Riven elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Riven 106 1,309th
England and Wales girls Riven 26 3,609th
Belgium boys Riven 16 900th
France boys Riven 15 4,917th
Scotland boys Riven 3 728th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Riven: rank by region

In 2025, Riven was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Riven 589 9

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.