Indiana
#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births · #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
Given to girls 59.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,090since 1880
Indiana over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,194 | 84 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #2,248 | 83 | #2,133 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,020 | 97 | #2,032 | 74 |
| 2022 | #1,818 | 112 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | #1,801 | 112 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | #1,959 | 97 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 | #1,816 | 84 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | #1,981 | 74 |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | #1,955 | 74 |
| 2014 | #2,535 | 70 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 | #4,114 | 20 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
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| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 | — | |
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| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #3,344 | 8 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,601 | 14 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,321 | 9 | — | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,594 | 6 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 | — | |
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | #1,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,171 | 9 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #1,122 | 9 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,299 | 7 | — | |
| 1894 | #998 | 10 | — | |
| 1893 | #955 | 10 | — | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,147 | 6 | — | |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 | — | |
| 1887 | #860 | 8 | — | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
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| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | #830 | 5 | — | |
| 1880 | #580 | 9 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Indiana was already there! It came in at #580, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1886, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Indiana
- 54 spots since 2024 (#2,248 → #2,194)
- 235 spots since 2020 (#1,959 → #2,194)
- 277 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #2,194)
- Biggest drop: 301 spots in 1895 (#998 → #1,299)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #580 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1882, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1880–1881
- Highest: 1 in 10,110 girls born in 1880 were named Indiana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.0% of all girls named Indiana (689) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2015, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 36 | #580 (1880) | #875 |
| 1890s | 58 | #955 (1893) | #1,152 |
| 1900s | 58 | #1,227 (1901) | #1,527 |
| 1910s | 78 | #1,300 (1911) | #2,706 |
| 1920s | 73 | #2,780 (1922) | #3,675 |
| 1930s | 30 | #3,146 (1937) | #3,423 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,863 (1940) | #4,243 |
| 1950s | 11 | #5,325 (1956) | #5,370 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 46 | #6,612 (1986) | #9,432 |
| 1990s | 160 | #4,576 (1999) | #6,142 |
| 2000s | 255 | #3,936 (2008) | #5,208 |
| 2010s | 689 | #1,888 (2019) | #2,921 |
| 2020s | 585 | #1,801 (2021) | #2,007 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Indiana in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 21,350 of them was named Indiana, which outranked 87.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,269Ridley84
- #2,269Taylin84
- #2,269Zariya84
- #2,287Indiana83
- #2,287Aleia83
- #2,287Aminata83
- #2,287Brook83
- #2,308Adlee82
- #2,308Annastasia82
- #2,308Brandi82
Tied with 20 names at #2,287; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 26,357 of them was named Indiana, which outranked 86.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,975Tremaine73
- #1,975Wylder73
- #1,975Yash73
- #1,991Indiana72
- #1,991Aaiden72
- #1,991Aleksandr72
- #1,991Amani72
- #2,012Ashwin71
- #2,012Blaize71
- #2,012Darrius71
Tied with 20 names at #1,991; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.