Rivers Family History
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 908,626 Historical Documents with Rivers on Ancestry
- 253,862 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 170,797 Census and Voter Lists
- 34,504 Military Records
- 14,621 Immigration Records
- 434,842 Member Trees
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Number of Rivers families
 311 - 620  104 - 310 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rivers families
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255 - 507 86 - 254 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rivers families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rivers census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Rivers
- 560
- Confederate
- 292
- Union
- 268
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