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Indira

#3,796 in 2025Girls' name

Beauty

Indira has been given to 2,476 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #3,796 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Indira, 2025

1 in 85,000

Indira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Indira: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Sanskrit

What Indira means

Indira means “beauty”.

Origin, language, and formation

Indira is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Indira comes through Sanskrit इन्दिरा.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,476 girls were recorded with the name Indira between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,721 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,648 in 2020 to #3,796 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,404 in 2015 to #3,796 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 Indira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,796
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Indira 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Indira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Indiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Indira was born before 2001 — so the typical Indira is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,476
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (611).

Is Indira 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
−805
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−392
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.2%
Peak was 2001 (72)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,721
1966

Spellings of Indira

Indira is not the most common spelling — India is, with 32.3% against Indira's 3.3%.

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 Indira is used

Across 1910–2025, Indira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 83,147 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Indira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Indira around the world

Where Indira 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
    1997–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2025
    #1,627
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1985–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Indira

People whose public names include Indira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Indira in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Indira. Linked forms have their own page here.

Indra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Indira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,796
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 148
Best rank ever
#1,721
1966
Peak year
2001
72 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,476
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Indira

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

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Names with a curve like Indira

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

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Sibling names for Indira

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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