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Rivaldo

#13,480 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly river + power, authority

Rivaldo has been given to 237 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #13,480 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Rivaldo, 2025

1 in 663,000

Rivaldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rivaldo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly river + power, authority

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rivaldo means

Rivaldo may mean “river + power, authority”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rivaldo is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Another recorded pronunciation is /hi.ˈvaw.du/ for Rivaldo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 237 boys were recorded with the name Rivaldo between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,039 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rivaldo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,480
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rivaldo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rivaldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rivaldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rivaldo was born before 2003 — so the typical Rivaldo is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
71.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
237
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Choose a decade

2000s — 71.7% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Rivaldo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
16.7%
Peak was 2001 (30)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,039
2001

Spellings of Rivaldo

Rivaldo is not the most common spelling — Ricardo is, with 83.1% against Rivaldo's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rivaldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Rivaldo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 568,447 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rivaldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rivaldo around the world

Where Rivaldo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005
  • France
    1998–2019
    #5,244
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rivaldo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,480
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,039
2001
Peak year
2001
30 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
237
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Rivaldo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rivaldo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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