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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 8,787 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 93.2% 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).
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 32,622 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 82.9% 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).
- #2,394Vedansh56
- #2,394Yassin56
- #2,394Zayaan56
- #2,421Indigo55
- #2,421Abiel55
- #2,421Affan55
- #2,421Anish55
- #2,464Beckam54
- #2,464Braelyn54
- #2,464Caesar54
Tied with 42 names at #2,421; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.