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Indrani

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Indrani has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2011, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Indrani, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Indrani: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Indrani means

Indrani is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Indrani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Indrani between 1981 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2011; its best national rank was #10,985 in 1981.

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 Indrani?

Indrani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Indrani 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Indrani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Indranis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Indrani was born before 2003 — so the typical Indrani is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Indrani 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 2011 (6)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,985
1981

Spellings of Indrani

Indrani is not the most common spelling — Indiana is, with 71.6% against Indrani's 0.55%.

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.

Indrani around the world

Where Indrani 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.

  • France
    1997–2014
    #4,736
    in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Indrani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,985
1981
Peak year
2011
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Indrani

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

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Sibling names for Indrani

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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