Really love the name River but a question

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How do you use it/ what kind of surname do you need to have without it sounding like it's the title of an actual river?

Our surname with it sounds like an actual river somewhere. But I love it so much for Dd2 due soon. Gah.

I love the name river - it's on my list for this one!
Doesn't go with my surname as it is a 'place' name but runs smoothly with dps

I've come across a male Rivern recently, would that work for you?

I love the name River (for a boy)

In terms of surnames just avoid the names of actual rivers... And maybe place names in general. I don't think it goes too well with surnames ending in -er either (River Oliver recently named by Jamie Oliver which sounds a bit clunky to me)

A girl at DD's school is called River. Before I met her I assumed she would be a boy, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be a girls name. I really like it. Is only avoid it if your surname is the name of an actual river.

I was once on a thread where the number of rivers with the same, or same root name came up, eg Tamar and Thames, and one of the posters happened to be called RiverTam ... and I started wondering where it was for quite a while ... the daft thing was I was in the middle of rewatching Firefly! so yes ... it can sound like a river name, but also another popular culture example of it being used for a girl.

We have Ds Quincy and DD Hero. So it would be Quincy, Hero and River. Does that work? Don't know if it even really matters but it seems a bit jumbled up.

It works because they're all pretty out there names! Quincy and Hero don't exactly "match" in any way, so adding River doesn't really change anything in that regard, in my opinion.

I think its a lovely name and makes me think of the female character of the same name from Firefly.