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India: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #299 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #299 in 2001; #1,722 in 2025. Every baby recorded as India in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,722 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #299.
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India: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 girls in 2025. Peak: #299 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 1,049 (2001).
In 2025, 118 US girls were named India, making it the 1,722nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 370 places from #1,352 in 2024. That is 51 fewer than the 169 girls named India in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #299, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,049. For comparison, it was #1,022 in 2015 and #1,851 in 1950.
Social Security card records list India in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 24,017 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,361 babies named India.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,420 US girls were named India; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 302. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,621 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, India ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #711 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Indiana (3,537 babies since 1880), Indie (4,683 babies since 1880), Indy (3,176 babies since 1880) and Indya (1,731 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Endia, Inda and Indiya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Indie and Indy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Endia (1,300), Inda (506), Indiya (389), Endya (282), Indiyah (221), Indiah (198), Endi (139), Indio (137), Indyah (127), Indee (122), Indea (77), Indyia (70), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #711 | #703 |
| Alabama | 6 | #755 | #513 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,081 | #787 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,192 | #463 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,259 | #534 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,269 | #572 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,295 | #647 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,553 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,723 | #1,097 |
| California | 8 | #2,364 | #1,552 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,505 | #1,573 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2024 | 169 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2022 | 275 | #969 | — | — |
| 2021 | 283 | #938 | — | — |
| 2020 | 248 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 2019 | 285 | #928 | — | — |
| 2018 | 295 | #911 | — | — |
| 2017 | 302 | #894 | — | — |
| 2016 | 263 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2015 | 262 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2014 | 226 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2013 | 259 | #971 | — | — |
| 2012 | 204 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2011 | 253 | #997 | — | — |
| 2010 | 261 | #977 | — | — |
| 2009 | 335 | #836 | — | — |
| 2008 | 353 | #813 | — | — |
| 2007 | 431 | #682 | — | — |
| 2006 | 522 | #564 | — | — |
| 2005 | 613 | #497 | — | — |
| 2004 | 616 | #477 | — | — |
| 2003 | 740 | #410 | — | — |
| 2002 | 979 | #312 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,049 | #299 | — | — |
| 2000 | 723 | #395 | — | — |
| 1999 | 677 | #411 | — | — |
| 1998 | 514 | #494 | — | — |
| 1997 | 602 | #427 | — | — |
| 1996 | 667 | #398 | — | — |
| 1995 | 599 | #431 | — | — |
| 1994 | 616 | #406 | — | — |
| 1993 | 659 | #386 | — | — |
| 1992 | 664 | #390 | 6 | #7,832 |
| 1991 | 614 | #414 | — | — |
| 1990 | 500 | #488 | 7 | #6,711 |
| 1989 | 443 | #525 | 9 | #5,341 |
| 1988 | 498 | #452 | — | — |
| 1987 | 529 | #422 | — | — |
| 1986 | 604 | #385 | — | — |
| 1985 | 754 | #318 | 5 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 329 | #562 | — | — |
| 1983 | 178 | #858 | — | — |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1981 | 178 | #871 | — | — |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1979 | 157 | #941 | — | — |
| 1978 | 129 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1977 | 159 | #894 | — | — |
| 1976 | 134 | #951 | — | — |
| 1975 | 151 | #881 | — | — |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1973 | 140 | #895 | — | — |
| 1972 | 194 | #727 | — | — |
| 1971 | 249 | #653 | — | — |
| 1970 | 192 | #761 | — | — |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1911 | 20 | #997 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1907 | 16 | #962 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #936 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #909 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1903 | 16 | #877 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #885 | — | — |
| 1901 | 16 | #840 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #901 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #738 | — | — |
| 1898 | 16 | #863 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #810 | — | — |
| 1896 | 27 | #600 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #670 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #972 | — | — |
| 1893 | 18 | #699 | — | — |
| 1892 | 32 | #483 | — | — |
| 1891 | 13 | #769 | — | — |
| 1890 | 22 | #566 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #627 | — | — |
| 1888 | 18 | #600 | — | — |
| 1887 | 10 | #762 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #588 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #589 | — | — |
| 1884 | 20 | #454 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #489 | — | — |
| 1882 | 16 | #466 | — | — |
| 1881 | 16 | #422 | — | — |
| 1880 | 12 | #506 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).