Rivet surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Rivet surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,949 people carried this name — #15,127 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 151,500 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,829 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 4,144 people named Rivet.

85 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 92 départements, most often Charente.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 85
Charente 575
Paris 308
Haute-Vienne 291
Pas-de-Calais 188
Haute-Loire 170
Ille-et-Vilaine 143
Yvelines 127
Loire-Atlantique 121

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 99 people named Rivet live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 51
City of Buenos Aires 22
Córdoba 13
Tucumán 13

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

27 people named Rivet live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 15
Neuchâtel 7
Geneva 5

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In print

Rivet in American newspapers,
1918–1923.

Newspaper page from White Pine News carrying the name Rivet
White Pine News 1923-01-07
Newspaper page from Lander Evening Post carrying the name Rivet
Lander Evening Post 1923-01-08
Newspaper page from The Sun carrying the name Rivet
The Sun 1918-05-19

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 290,077 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Rivet,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Jean-Charles Rivet
    Jean-Charles Rivet 1800–1872 · politician
  • Charles Gabriel Rivet d. 1884 · botanist
  • Margery Rivet d. 1681
  • André Rivet 1572–1651 · writer
  • Maurice Rivet 1642–
  • Antoine Rivet de La Grange 1683–1749 · historian

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Rivet.

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