Indie
Indie was given to 459 girls in 2025, #634 among girls’ names; 4,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,650 Americans named Indie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Indie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Indie?
#634 among girls’ names, 2025
Indie rose from #1,528 in 2015 to #634 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.29 per 1,000.
579 babies in 2022, the peak
Indie peaked in 2022, when 579 babies were given it (550 girls, #552 among girls’ names). The 476 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 459 | #634 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 450 | #653 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 518 | #577 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 550 | #552 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 437 | #675 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 370 | #741 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 311 | #863 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 251 | #1,031 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,084 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 208 | #1,197 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 147 | #1,528 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,205 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,782 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,492 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,026 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,233 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,522 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,418 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,502 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,479 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,288 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,068 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,833 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Indie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,683 Americans recorded as Indie, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 459 girls and 17 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Indie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Indie, and how old are they?
4,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,683 Americans ever recorded as Indie. The median Indie alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 1,768 people named Indie (1,623 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Indie born?
The states with the most babies named Indie are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #897 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 32 | #903 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #521 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #533 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 19 | #841 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 19 | #545 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #440 | 1.3× |
| Utah | 17 | #266 | 5.5× |
| Arizona | 17 | #399 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 16 | #429 | 0.9× |
Where Indie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Indie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1959 it was given 5.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Indie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,599 babies since 1880, Indie is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 476 of their 1,091 babies (44%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Indie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Indie and names like it
- Compare Indie and IndiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIndie peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Indie since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Indie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Indie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.