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Indy

#768 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Indy has been given to 3,176 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #768 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 363 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Indy, 2025

1 in 9,390

Indy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Indy over time

In 2025, Indy went to 86% girls and 14% boys.

19552025

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.

Indy: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Indy means

Indy has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Indy

A separate documented entry treats Indy as a diminutive of Indiana. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Indy as a variant of Indie. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,329 girls were recorded with the name Indy between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 363 in 2024; its best national rank was #768 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,514 in 2020 to #768 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,449 in 2015 to #768 in 2025.

In the United States, 847 boys were recorded with the name Indy between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,974 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,812 in 2020 to #2,369 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,620 in 2015 to #2,369 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.

How common is Indy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,390
353 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,550
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#768
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,511 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Indy 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,511 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Indy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Indys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Indy was born before 2022 — so the typical Indy is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
69.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,329
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 69.8% of all recorded uses (1,626).

Is Indy 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
+8
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+746
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,681
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.2%
Peak was 2024 (363)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#768
2025

Spellings of Indy

Indy is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 46.4% against Indy's 0.07%.

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 Indy is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Indy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 826 girls, against 1 in 8,880 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

2121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 826
  2. 2Idaho1 in 1,786
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 2,564
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 4,545
  5. 5Iowa1 in 4,762
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 4,762
  7. 7Alabama1 in 5,263
  8. 8Arizona1 in 6,667

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.

Where Indy is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Indy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 32,831 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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.

Indy around the world

Where Indy 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
    1999–2025
    #610
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2022
    #6,116
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #127
    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.

Notable people named Indy

People whose public names include Indy, 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.

Indy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#768
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 746
Best rank ever
#768
2025
Peak year
2024
363 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,329
Count in 2025
353

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,369
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 443
Best rank ever
#1,974
2023
Peak year
2023
78 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
847
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Indy

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

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Names with a curve like Indy

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

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Sibling names for Indy

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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