Meaning not yet researched.
Indiana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #604 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #604 in 1880; #2,202 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Indiana in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,202 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #604.
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Indiana: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 girls in 2025. Peak: #604 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 112 (2022).
In 2025, 84 US girls were named Indiana, making it the 2,202nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 51 places from #2,253 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 83 girls named Indiana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #604, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 112, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Indiana, making it the 2,317th most common boys’ name of the year, down 173 places from #2,144 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 69 boys named Indiana in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,820, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #1,966 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Indiana in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 3,537 US babies have been given the name, 59% of them girls and 41% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,252 babies named Indiana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 977 US girls were named Indiana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,134 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Indiana ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #751 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include India (24,017 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Indianna are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Indianna (82).
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.
No nicknames listed for Indiana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #751 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #969 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,099 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,124 | #730 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,206 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,785 | #1,769 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,202 | 60 | #2,317 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,253 | 69 | #2,144 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,026 | 74 | #2,037 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,825 | 70 | #2,122 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,811 | 74 | #2,012 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,961 | 80 | #1,856 |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,892 | 84 | #1,820 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,987 | 74 | #1,983 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,936 | 72 | #1,983 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,290 | 72 | #1,997 |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,485 | 74 | #1,966 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,545 | 60 | #2,242 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,368 | 41 | #2,821 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,423 | 25 | #4,058 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,104 | 44 | #2,717 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,336 | 17 | #5,341 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,450 | 26 | #3,963 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,960 | 43 | #2,804 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,517 | 38 | #3,046 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,394 | 25 | #3,932 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,006 | 28 | #3,485 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,635 | 24 | #3,779 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,486 | 20 | #4,176 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,330 | 33 | #2,844 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,257 | 31 | #2,956 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,709 | 26 | #3,243 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,634 | 28 | #2,967 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,701 | 17 | #4,082 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,896 | 22 | #3,292 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,505 | 24 | #3,059 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,712 | 17 | #3,755 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,449 | 17 | #3,808 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,294 | 11 | #5,148 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,707 | 11 | #5,018 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,054 | 10 | #5,254 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,746 | 6 | #7,519 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,350 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,847 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,336 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,781 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,826 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,866 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,108 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,741 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,306 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,598 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,020 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #986 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #989 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #897 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #876 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #604 | — | — |
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).