Indigo
#853 for girls in 2025, 318 births · #1,529 for boys in 2025, 113 births
Given to girls 76.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 318 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,020since 1971
Indigo 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 | #853 | 318 | #1,529 | 113 |
| 2024 | #919 | 289 | #1,608 | 106 |
| 2023 | #961 | 270 | #1,718 | 97 |
| 2022 | #978 | 272 | #1,523 | 118 |
| 2021 | #901 | 300 | #1,815 | 86 |
| 2020 | #1,027 | 244 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #1,229 | 191 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #1,335 | 169 | #2,046 | 70 |
| 2017 | #1,379 | 167 | #2,388 | 54 |
| 2016 | #1,719 | 123 | #2,626 | 47 |
| 2015 | #1,743 | 120 | #2,386 | 54 |
| 2014 | #1,830 | 111 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | #2,259 | 82 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #2,728 | 65 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #2,556 | 65 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #2,740 | 53 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #2,151 | 63 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #2,323 | 56 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #2,195 | 60 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,996 | 69 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | — | |
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| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Indigo! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Indigo
- 66 spots since 2024 (#919 → #853)
- 174 spots since 2020 (#1,027 → #853)
- 890 spots since 2015 (#1,743 → #853)
- Biggest jump: 126 spots in 2021 (#1,027 → #901)
- Biggest drop: 77 spots in 2022 (#901 → #978)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2025 at #853 (318 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,054 girls born in 2025 were named Indigo (0.02%)
- 42.1% of all girls named Indigo (1,693) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,324 (1971) | #8,324 |
| 1980s | 12 | #8,523 (1986) | #9,399 |
| 1990s | 565 | #1,876 (1992) | #2,610 |
| 2000s | 597 | #2,346 (2003) | #2,769 |
| 2010s | 1,148 | #1,229 (2019) | #1,994 |
| 2020s | 1,693 | #853 (2025) | #940 |
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.
Indigo in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 10,066 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 25,945 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 85.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,029Shalom71
- #2,029Tristyn71
- #2,029Xavian71
- #2,046Indigo70
- #2,046Ahaan70
- #2,046Amere70
- #2,046Ames70
- #2,065Amadeus69
- #2,065Basil69
- #2,065Caesar69
Tied with 18 names at #2,046; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.