Indy

Where Indy comes from

Indy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #5,208 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Indy Barends born
    Indonesian actress
  3. 1999
    Indy Boonen born
    Belgian association football player
  4. 2014
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #768
    353 babies named Indy — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Indy Boonen · Belgian association football player, born 1999
  • Indy Barends · Indonesian actress, born 1972
  • Indy Baijens · Dutch volleyball player, born 2001
  • Indy Lewis · British actress, born 2001
  • Indy Hait · Azerbaijani-Israeli director, born 1991

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.