Indy
Indy is given to both girls and boys: 353 girls and 58 boys were given it in 2025 (#768 among girls’ names and #2,369 among boys’, #1,349 among all names counting both); 3,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,150 Americans named Indy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Indy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Indy?
#768 among girls’ names, 2025
Indy rose from #3,449 in 2015 to #768 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.22 per 1,000.
440 babies in 2024, the peak
Indy peaked in 2024, when 440 babies were given it (363 girls, #776 among girls’ names). The 411 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 353 | #768 | 58 | #2,369 |
| 2024 | 363 | #776 | 77 | #2,002 |
| 2023 | 287 | #924 | 78 | #1,974 |
| 2022 | 246 | #1,040 | 71 | #2,105 |
| 2021 | 236 | #1,067 | 59 | #2,332 |
| 2020 | 141 | #1,514 | 43 | #2,812 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,776 | 55 | #2,438 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,105 | 57 | #2,332 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,702 | 49 | #2,575 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,945 | 27 | #3,922 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,449 | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,870 | 24 | #4,175 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,842 | 26 | #3,896 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,732 | 21 | #4,588 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,938 | 16 | #5,512 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,471 | 12 | #6,826 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,163 | 11 | #7,393 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,897 | 22 | #4,449 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,701 | 12 | #6,802 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,796 | 10 | #7,634 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,536 | 11 | #6,805 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,028 | 7 | #9,294 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,944 | 6 | #10,048 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,069 | 6 | #9,838 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,393 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 11 | #6,060 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,282 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,015 | 6 | #8,900 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,580 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,080 | 7 | #7,437 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,102 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,349 | 6 | #8,152 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,701 | 7 | #7,104 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,826 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,967 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,961 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,001 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,552 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,346 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,326 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,513 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,056 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,783 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,552 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,036 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,024 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,456 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Indy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,176 Americans recorded as Indy, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Indy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Indy, and how old are they?
3,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,176 Americans ever recorded as Indy. The median Indy alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,389 people named Indy (834 women and girls, 555 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 315 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,690 |
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 Indy born?
The states with the most babies named Indy are California, Utah and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 36 | #1,008 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 35 | #127 | 4.8× |
| Texas | 33 | #1,105 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | #746 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 16 | #628 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #512 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #803 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 12 | #494 | 0.5× |
| Nebraska | 11 | #212 | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #413 | 0.8× |
Where Indy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Indy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1955 it was given 4.8 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 Indy 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 35,528 babies since 1880, Indy is the third most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 411 of their 1,091 babies (38%), the second 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 Indy
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 Indy and names like it
- Compare Indy and IndiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIndy peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Indy since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Indy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Indy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.