Indie

#632 for girls in 2025, 459 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 94.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 550 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,412
since 1959

Indie over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#632459#5,39917
2024#653450#4,89020
2023#577518#4,11226
2022#552550#3,77429
2021#675437#4,24724
2020#739370#4,69820
2019#861311#5,34017
2018#1,030251#5,10618
2017#1,082234#6,33813
2016#1,197208#6,05314
2015#1,526147#8,7448
2014#2,19486#8,1309
2013#2,76962#7,02611
2012#3,46446#7,05011
2011#3,01456#8,7678
2010#4,18035#8,8038
2009#4,48233#8,9858
2008#5,75024#12,5535
2007#3,65344#12,3675
2006#8,23714
2005#5,43723
2004#9,26411
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First appearance
1959

The first year at least five girls were named Indie! It came in at #5,566, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1960–2001, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Indie
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 21 spots since 2024 (#653#632)
  • 107 spots since 2020 (#739#632)
  • 894 spots since 2015 (#1,526#632)
  • Biggest jump: 169 spots in 2019 (#1,030#861)
  • Biggest drop: 76 spots in 2024 (#577#653)
Rise & fade · girls
63 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 2022 at #552 (550 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,982
  • Highest: 1 in 2,982 girls born in 2022 were named Indie (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,502 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 63.1% of all girls named Indie (2,784) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#5,566 (1959)#5,566
1960s5#6,390 (1960)#6,390
1970s5#10,210 (1979)#10,210
1980s0
1990s5#13,386 (1995)#13,386
2000s171#3,653 (2007)#6,839
2010s1,436#861 (2019)#2,132
2020s2,784#552 (2022)#638

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.

Indie in 2019

girls
#861
311 births · 1 in 5,397 girls
boys
#5,340
17 births · 1 in 105,542 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #861Indie311

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #5,340Indie17
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 5,397 of them was named Indie, which outranked 95.2% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Indie
  1. #854Selene313
  2. #859Anais312
  3. #859Rosalyn312
  4. #861Indie311
  5. #861Dani311
  6. #861Hunter311
  7. #861Nellie311
  8. #865Kamari310
  9. #866Elodie309
  10. #866Miah309

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 105,542 of them was named Indie, which outranked 62.2% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Indie
  1. #5,153Yogi18
  2. #5,153Zaryan18
  3. #5,153Zia18
  4. #5,340Indie17
  5. #5,340Aadyn17
  6. #5,340Aakash17
  7. #5,340Abisai17
  8. #5,555Aadil16
  9. #5,555Aaric16
  10. #5,555Adael16

Tied with 214 names at #5,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019