Inda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Inda has been given to 506 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Inda, 2005
1 in 769,000
Inda over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Inda?
Inda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Inda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Indas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Inda was born before 1943 — so the typical Inda is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 15.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 224
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (79).
Is Inda 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (12)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.1% average annual change
Spellings of Inda
Inda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 28.7% against Inda's <0.01%.
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.
Inda around the world
Where Inda 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.
- France1972–1999#2,796in 1999
- South Australia1969–1969#731in 1969
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Inda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Inda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Inda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.