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rivers Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning ‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.
  2. Common Americanized form of French Larivière.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rivers Families in the US in 1920
Number of rivers families
 311-620
 104-310		 1-103
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