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Indigo: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 318 in 2025. Its best rank was #854 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 74% of babies named Indigo in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#854 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Indigo: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 318 girls in 2025. Peak: #854 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 318 (2025).
In 2025, 318 US girls were named Indigo, making it the 854th most common girls’ name of the year, up 67 places from #921 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 289 girls named Indigo in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #854, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 318. For comparison, it was #1,747 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Indigo, making it the 1,531st most common boys’ name of the year, up 82 places from #1,613 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 106 boys named Indigo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,528, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 118. For comparison, it was #2,395 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Indigo in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 5,242 US babies have been given the name, 77% of them girls and 23% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,285 babies named Indigo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,343 US girls were named Indigo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 318. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,054 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Indigo ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #374 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 6 | #374 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #464 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #505 | #477 |
| Oregon | 7 | #517 | #621 |
| Missouri | 11 | #533 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #534 | #1,304 |
| Kansas | 6 | #536 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #559 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #602 | — |
| Georgia | 17 | #629 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #644 | #795 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #705 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #727 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #753 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #775 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #836 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #842 | #1,712 |
| Virginia | 8 | #887 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #935 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #966 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #1,046 | #3,479 |
| New York | 13 | #1,112 | #1,530 |
| California | 22 | #1,164 | #1,358 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,207 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,494 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 318 | #854 | 113 | #1,531 |
| 2024 | 289 | #921 | 106 | #1,613 |
| 2023 | 270 | #961 | 97 | #1,720 |
| 2022 | 272 | #979 | 118 | #1,528 |
| 2021 | 300 | #901 | 86 | #1,819 |
| 2020 | 244 | #1,028 | 72 | #1,985 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,231 | 55 | #2,438 |
| 2018 | 169 | #1,335 | 70 | #2,057 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,381 | 54 | #2,399 |
| 2016 | 123 | #1,724 | 47 | #2,640 |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,747 | 54 | #2,395 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,830 | 34 | #3,257 |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,272 | 18 | #5,048 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,947 | 22 | #4,448 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,743 | 19 | #4,884 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,794 | 20 | #4,742 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,690 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,969 | 12 | #6,912 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,143 | 12 | #6,805 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,737 | 17 | #5,170 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,648 | 19 | #4,539 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,569 | 20 | #4,322 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,353 | 21 | #4,035 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,909 | 17 | #4,581 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,065 | 10 | #6,638 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,750 | 16 | #4,662 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,650 | 19 | #3,897 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,628 | 13 | #4,985 |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,057 | 13 | #4,773 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,163 | 6 | #8,325 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,433 | 12 | #4,911 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,332 | 10 | #5,622 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,934 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,877 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,867 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,784 | — | — |
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).