Family name origins & meanings
- French (Rivière) : topographic name for someone who lived by the bank of a river or shore of a lake, from Old French rivière ‘river’, ‘shore’, or a habitational name from any of various places named (Le) Rivière, for example in Indre-et-Loire and Pas-de-Calais.
- A Rivière from the Poitou region of France is documented in Repentigny, Quebec in 1680.