Indigo

Where Indigo comes from

The dictionaries list Indigo as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #8,324 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #853
    318 babies named Indigo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Indigo turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.