Bindi

#4,186 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bindi has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,186 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Bindi, 2025

1 in 97,500

Bindi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bindi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bindi means

Bindi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bindi is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Bindi is pronounced /bɪn.di/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 431 girls were recorded with the name Bindi between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,744 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,462 in 2020 to #4,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,013 in 2015 to #4,186 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bindi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,186
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bindi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bindi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bindis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bindi was born before 2019 — so the typical Bindi is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Bindi 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
−59
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+276
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,827
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.0%
Peak was 2021 (40)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
65.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,744
2021

Spellings of Bindi

Bindi is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 70.9% against Bindi's 0.02%.

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 Bindi is used

Across 1910–2025, Bindi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 930,529 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Bindi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bindi around the world

Where Bindi 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1972–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bindi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 276
Best rank ever
#3,744
2021
Peak year
2021
40 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
431
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Bindi

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

Sibling names for Bindi

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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