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Indie

#634 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of India

Indie has been given to 4,683 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #634 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 550 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Indie, 2025

1 in 7,220

Indie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Indie over time

In 2025, Indie went to 96% girls and 4% boys.

19592025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Indie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of India

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Indie means

Indie is a diminutive of India.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Indie → India → Ἰνδός. The family’s proposed meaning is “river”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements síndʰuš.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include India.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,412 girls were recorded with the name Indie between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 550 in 2022; its best national rank was #552 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #741 in 2020 to #634 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,528 in 2015 to #634 in 2025.

In the United States, 271 boys were recorded with the name Indie between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,804 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,764 in 2020 to #5,477 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,057 in 2015 to #5,477 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.

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How common is Indie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,220
459 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,500
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#634
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,007 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Indie 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 5,007 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Indie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Indies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Indie was born before 2021 — so the typical Indie is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,412
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 63.1% of all recorded uses (2,784).

Is Indie 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
+19
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+107
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+894
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.5%
Peak was 2022 (550)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
2022

Spellings of Indie

Indie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 35.1% against Indie's 0.43%.

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 Indie is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Indie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 515 girls, against 1 in 3,948 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

2194 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 515
  2. 2Idaho1 in 758
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 1,667
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 2,174
  5. 5Iowa1 in 2,222
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 2,222
  7. 7Missouri1 in 2,381
  8. 8Arizona1 in 2,439

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.

Geographically, Indie is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Indie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Indie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,452,725 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Indie around the world

Where Indie 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
    1996–2025
    #134
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #172
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2025
    #205
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #109
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #3,069
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2013
    #106
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Indie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#634
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 107
Best rank ever
#552
2022
Peak year
2022
550 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,412
Count in 2025
459

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,477
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 713
Best rank ever
#3,804
2022
Peak year
2022
29 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
271
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Indie

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

IndigoIndyaIndiraIndyZadieAndieIndraIndiaKadieAudieCodieIndianaEdieMaddieElodieIndiKodieEddieSudieIndicaJudieHaddieMadieCadie

Names with a curve like Indie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Indie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Indie

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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