Meaning not yet researched.
Indira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,721 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,721 in 1966; #3,797 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Indira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,797 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #1,721.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Indira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,721 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 72 (2001).
In 2025, 39 US girls were named Indira, making it the 3,797th most common girls’ name of the year, down 806 places from #2,991 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 55 girls named Indira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,721, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 72, in 2001. For comparison, it was #3,404 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Indira in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 43 babies. In all, 2,476 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 611 babies named Indira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 428 US girls were named Indira; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Indra and Endora are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Sanskrit. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Indra (943), Endora (109).
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 Indira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,830 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,721 | — | — |
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).