Indie
#632 for girls in 2025, 459 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 94.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 550 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,412since 1959
Indie 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #632 | 459 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #653 | 450 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | #577 | 518 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #552 | 550 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #675 | 437 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #739 | 370 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #861 | 311 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #1,030 | 251 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #1,082 | 234 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #1,197 | 208 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #1,526 | 147 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
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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.
Where Indie is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#127 · 1 in 501
- Idaho#281 · 1 in 920
- Oklahoma#569 · 1 in 2,399
- Colorado#790 · 1 in 3,927
- Tennessee#844 · 1 in 4,434
Best ever in a state: #80 in North Dakota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #127 | 36 | 1 in 501 |
| Idaho | #281 | 7 | 1 in 920 |
| Oklahoma | #569 | 7 | 1 in 2,399 |
| Colorado | #790 | 6 | 1 in 3,927 |
| Tennessee | #844 | 7 | 1 in 4,434 |
| Arizona | #859 | 7 | 1 in 4,420 |
| Virginia | #917 | 7 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Missouri | #958 | 5 | 1 in 5,425 |
| California | #1,066 | 29 | 1 in 7,025 |
| Texas | #1,294 | 19 | 1 in 8,805 |
| Florida | #1,499 | 8 | 1 in 10,839 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Indie
- 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)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2022 at #552 (550 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- 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%)
- 63.1% of all girls named Indie (2,784) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 6 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,566 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,390 (1960) | #6,390 |
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #13,386 (1995) | #13,386 |
| 2000s | 171 | #3,653 (2007) | #6,839 |
| 2010s | 1,436 | #861 (2019) | #2,132 |
| 2020s | 2,784 | #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 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 8,519 of them was named Indie, which outranked 93.7% 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).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 135,553 of them was named Indie, which outranked 57.4% 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).
- #5,789Zayven15
- #5,789Zoe15
- #5,789Zubayr15
- #6,053Indie14
- #6,053Aarik14
- #6,053Aemon14
- #6,053Ahkeem14
- #6,349Aaryn13
- #6,349Abdalla13
- #6,349Abdou13
Tied with 295 names at #6,053; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.