Meaning not yet researched.
Indie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 459 in 2025. Its best rank was #552 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #552 in 2022; #634 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Indie in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#634 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #552.
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Indie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 459 girls in 2025. Peak: #552 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 550 (2022).
In 2025, 459 US girls were named Indie, making it the 634th most common girls’ name of the year, up 19 places from #653 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 450 girls named Indie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #552, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 550. For comparison, it was #1,528 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Indie in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 6 babies. In all, 4,683 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,920 babies named Indie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,788 US girls were named Indie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 550. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,502 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Indie ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #84 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include India (24,017 babies since 1880), Indy (3,176 babies since 1880), Indya (1,731 babies since 1880) and Indi (899 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Indie in the open dataset we use.
Indie is listed as a nickname for India.
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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 11 | #84 | — |
| Arkansas | 13 | #238 | — |
| West Virginia | 7 | #246 | — |
| Utah | 17 | #266 | #241 |
| Oregon | 13 | #282 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #289 | #398 |
| Iowa | 10 | #334 | — |
| Mississippi | 8 | #356 | — |
| Arizona | 17 | #399 | #807 |
| Missouri | 15 | #404 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #427 | — |
| Indiana | 16 | #429 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #432 | — |
| Tennessee | 18 | #440 | #876 |
| Nevada | 6 | #465 | — |
| North Carolina | 21 | #521 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #530 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #533 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #535 | #671 |
| Ohio | 19 | #545 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #558 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #573 | #609 |
| Washington | 10 | #643 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #667 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #685 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #724 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #826 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #841 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #878 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #886 | — |
| California | 32 | #897 | #1,357 |
| Texas | 32 | #903 | #1,574 |
| Colorado | 5 | #970 | #820 |
| New York | 7 | #1,724 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 459 | #634 | 17 | #5,479 |
| 2024 | 450 | #653 | 20 | #4,949 |
| 2023 | 518 | #577 | 26 | #4,154 |
| 2022 | 550 | #552 | 29 | #3,807 |
| 2021 | 437 | #675 | 24 | #4,295 |
| 2020 | 370 | #741 | 20 | #4,768 |
| 2019 | 311 | #863 | 17 | #5,419 |
| 2018 | 251 | #1,031 | 18 | #5,175 |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,084 | 13 | #6,454 |
| 2016 | 208 | #1,197 | 14 | #6,152 |
| 2015 | 147 | #1,528 | 8 | #9,062 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,205 | 9 | #8,396 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,783 | 11 | #7,224 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,493 | 11 | #7,230 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,027 | 8 | #9,068 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,234 | 8 | #9,113 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,523 | 8 | #9,305 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,829 | 5 | #13,287 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,674 | 5 | #13,084 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,422 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,484 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,293 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,074 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,265 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,772 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,724 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,834 | — | — |
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).