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.
Where Indigo is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wisconsin#634 · 1 in 2,968
- Washington#638 · 1 in 2,913
- Colorado#686 · 1 in 3,078
- Maryland#714 · 1 in 3,188
- Oklahoma#724 · 1 in 2,955
Best ever in a state: #179 in Hawaii, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #634 | 7 | 1 in 2,968 |
| Washington | #638 | 10 | 1 in 2,913 |
| Colorado | #686 | 7 | 1 in 3,078 |
| Maryland | #714 | 7 | 1 in 3,188 |
| Oklahoma | #724 | 5 | 1 in 2,955 |
| South Carolina | #763 | 5 | 1 in 3,461 |
| New York | #801 | 19 | 1 in 4,189 |
| Virginia | #826 | 8 | 1 in 4,267 |
| Arizona | #830 | 7 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Tennessee | #862 | 7 | 1 in 4,338 |
| North Carolina | #897 | 9 | 1 in 4,848 |
| California | #917 | 32 | 1 in 5,444 |
| Florida | #995 | 14 | 1 in 5,747 |
| Ohio | #1,035 | 8 | 1 in 5,988 |
| Georgia | #1,044 | 8 | 1 in 5,561 |
| Michigan | #1,067 | 6 | 1 in 6,309 |
| Texas | #1,138 | 22 | 1 in 6,952 |
| Illinois | #1,190 | 7 | 1 in 6,965 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,227 | 6 | 1 in 8,058 |
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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 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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 6,625 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 94.1% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 23,973 of them was named Indigo, which outranked 85.9% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,962Pryce73
- #1,962Richie73
- #1,962Shiv73
- #1,977Indigo72
- #1,977Aram72
- #1,977Aurelius72
- #1,977Austen72
- #1,996Aarin71
- #1,996Akram71
- #1,996Alakai71
Tied with 18 names at #1,977; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.