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Rivers Name Meaning
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.Common Americanized form of French Larivière.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rivers Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rivers families
 311 - 620  104 - 310 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rivers families
|
255 - 507 86 - 254 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rivers families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rivers Family Origin
Rivers Immigration Information
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Rivers Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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