The French Broad

Annisquam, Missisquoi, Winooski...

New England has some awesome rivers with indigenous names.

Amazon

But Rubicon is really goated river name

Big fan of the Dnieper. Always loved how it sounds.

Shenandoah is another good one, it has a good old and easy going feel, just like the river does

Euphrates is another all time great. Especially when it comes paired with the Tigris

Orinoco, Paraná, Yangtze, Volga

If you don't think humans are good at naming rivers I gotta say, you're in de Nile

Volga for sure makes the list

Gambia, the river so nice they named a country after it

Danube!

And then you have the Po, which is remarkable for how silly it looks and sounds.

"river river" is an all-time classic

An tSionainn is classic, of course, as well as all her daughters, but the Three Sisters: an Bhearú, an Fheoir, and an tSiúr are pretty lovely. An Bhanna is a personal favourite.

Athabasca and Assiniboine are pretty great, as is the Don's Anishnaabe name Wonscotonach.

Wolastoq is pretty excellent, the people who live there are even called the Wolastoqiyik because of how excellent a river it is.

Cleveland is built on the Cuyahoga, which means "crooked river" because that shit is twisty as hell

Seems like a good list of names to use for naming small starships

Where I'm at we have East River, West River, Mill River (because there was a mill on it), they were kind of lazy with the names. Other good names are Short Hill, Long Hill, and most of the town names are just copies of names where the settlers came from.

Umpqua is one of my favorites to say.

lots of rivers in Brazil have names that come from indigenous languages, so we have some real bangers too: Xingu, Juruá, Parnaíba, Iguaçu, Juruena, Tapajós, Tietê, Piracicaba

El Rio Bravo Del Norte has a name that makes it clear you should not fuck with it.

Three's some good rivers near me that have names in the local Algonquin language, but I'd basically be doxing myself.

There is a town called in Virginia called Tappahannock that is on the Rappahannock River

i like it when they rhyme, like Rhein and Main or Drava and Sava. also, Olt. amazing name.

I’m a big fan of descriptive names like “Noisy Creek”, less of a fan of ones that imply raw gore used to be dump into it like “Slaughterhouse Creek”. Ojibwe names are some of my favorite because they add more variety than another river being called the “Red River” - Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'iganiiwi-ziibi. Monongahela River is a good one, and it combined with the Cheat River to displace my family decades ago- but they’re both v pretty. And the Cheat River always makes me think of this lil dude https://web.archive.org/web/20250225180312/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVDXd2upgL4

here we have maas / lek (leak) / ijssel / schelde / rijn / vecht (fight) and more

Denial

Susquehanna! Okavango! Yenisei!

The Yarra river is pretty neat

Este rio es me favoito.

¿Que rio, amigo?

El Rio Grande.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(river)

Wertach , Unstrut , Warnow are some germans i like , and Currently in the Media "the River Lonzo"