Indiah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Indiah has been given to 198 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 2000, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Indiah, 2019
1 in 579,000
Indiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Indiah?
Indiah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Indiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Indiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Indiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Indiah was born before 2005 — so the typical Indiah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 57.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 198
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (114).
Is Indiah 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
- —
- 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 2000 (16)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Indiah
Indiah is not the most common spelling — India is, with 43.9% against Indiah's 0.36%.
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.
Indiah around the world
Where Indiah 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 & Wales1997–2018#5,666in 2018
- France2024–2024#5,299in 2024
- South Australia1986–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Indiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Indiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Indiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.