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Indy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 353 in 2025. Its best rank was #768 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 86% of babies named Indy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#768 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Indy: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 353 girls in 2025. Peak: #768 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 363 (2024).
In 2025, 353 US girls were named Indy, making it the 768th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #776 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 363 girls named Indy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #768, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 363, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,449 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Indy, making it the 2,369th most common boys’ name of the year, down 367 places from #2,002 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 77 boys named Indy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,975, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #3,621 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Indy in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 6 babies. In all, 3,176 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,012 babies named Indy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,953 US girls were named Indy; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 363. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,553 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Indy ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #127 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), Indie (4,683 babies since 1880), Indya (1,731 babies since 1880) and Indi (899 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Endy 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Endy (549).
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 Indy in the open dataset we use.
Indy 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 35 | #127 | #478 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #177 | — |
| Nebraska | 11 | #212 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #290 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #413 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #463 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #490 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #494 | — |
| Louisiana | 9 | #508 | — |
| Tennessee | 15 | #512 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #525 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #601 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #607 | — |
| Ohio | 16 | #628 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #671 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #713 | — |
| Florida | 22 | #746 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #755 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #756 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #803 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #960 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,008 | #2,578 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,100 | — |
| Texas | 25 | #1,105 | #2,693 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,125 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,125 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 353 | #768 | 58 | #2,369 |
| 2024 | 363 | #776 | 77 | #2,002 |
| 2023 | 287 | #924 | 78 | #1,975 |
| 2022 | 246 | #1,040 | 71 | #2,106 |
| 2021 | 236 | #1,067 | 59 | #2,333 |
| 2020 | 141 | #1,514 | 43 | #2,813 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,776 | 55 | #2,439 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,105 | 57 | #2,333 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,702 | 49 | #2,576 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,945 | 27 | #3,923 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,449 | 30 | #3,621 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,872 | 24 | #4,178 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,846 | 26 | #3,898 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,738 | 21 | #4,592 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,942 | 16 | #5,517 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,474 | 12 | #6,832 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,166 | 11 | #7,398 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,901 | 22 | #4,452 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,705 | 12 | #6,806 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,801 | 10 | #7,639 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,543 | 11 | #6,811 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,034 | 7 | #9,300 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,949 | 6 | #10,055 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,075 | 6 | #9,845 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,400 | — | — |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,068 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,289 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,022 | 6 | #8,908 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,586 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,085 | 7 | #7,444 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,108 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,355 | 6 | #8,158 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,707 | 7 | #7,110 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,833 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,974 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,966 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,005 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,554 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,348 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,328 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,515 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,058 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,785 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,553 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,025 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,458 | — | — |
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).