Indira
Indira was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,796 among girls’ names; 2,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Indira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Indira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Indira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Indira is “a female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit इन्दिरा (indirā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Indira?
#3,796 among girls’ names, 2025
Indira fell from #3,404 in 2015 to #3,796 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 24.3 per million.
72 babies in 2001, the peak
Indira peaked in 2001, when 72 girls were given it, #2,242 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,796 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,991 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,224 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,913 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,514 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,648 | 25.4 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,955 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,809 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,657 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,877 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,404 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,289 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,661 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,112 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,064 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,772 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,062 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,671 | 36.5 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,870 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,949 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,679 | 34.1 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,770 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,471 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,503 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,242 | 40.0 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,436 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,542 | 31.6 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,149 | 37.9 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,366 | 32.2 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,638 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,887 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,852 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,778 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,160 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,748 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,174 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,191 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,994 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,452 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,929 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,815 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,999 | 30.3 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,859 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,454 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,944 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,402 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,180 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,033 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,524 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,890 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,828 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,101 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,157 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,241 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,267 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,245 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,845 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,374 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,128 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,721 | 25.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Indira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Indira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Indira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Indira, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,476 Americans ever recorded as Indira. The median Indira alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 7,287 people named Indira (7,269 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 345 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 583 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 563 |
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 Indira born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,912 | 2.5× |
Where Indira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Indira is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 2.5 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 Indira 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,469 babies since 1880, Indira is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 62 babies (63%), again the most given.
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 Indira
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 Indira and names like it
- Compare Indira and IndraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIndira peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Indira since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Indira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Indira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Indira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.