What is the most popular baby name in Indiana?

On a heavy SSA book, Indiana's cumulative #1 boy is Robert (129,104 births) and #1 girl is Mary (101,193 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Indiana over the decades?

Indiana is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from Robert/Mary (1910s) to Oliver/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Indiana?

Our data covers 3,229,633 name registrations in Indiana for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (DENSE volume stamp · #13 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Indiana

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Indiana, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Robert
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 3,229,633
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Indiana's all-time #1 names are Robert for boys and Mary for girls, based on 3,229,633 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Indiana has recorded 3,229,633 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Robert leads all boys with 129,104 births, while Mary tops the girls with 101,193. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Robert #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
3,229,633 births recorded

Where Indiana sits by recorded name volume

Indiana: 7,926,947 SSA name registrations (DENSE · rank 13/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Indiana vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

7,926,947 13th of 51 higher than 38 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Indiana naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 101,193 cumulative SSA births in Indiana ≠ Charlotte #1 of 1,209 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Robert is #1 of 129,104 cumulative SSA births in Indiana ≠ Oliver #1 of 1,073 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Oliver
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Robert
all-time boys #1, 2025 #51

Both sexes in Indiana already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a heavy registry book shows for Indiana

Indiana sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (7,926,947 · DENSE · #13/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Robert (129,104 boy births) and Mary (101,193 girl births) across 3,229,633 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 2,023,353 vs 1,206,280 for girls.

In Indiana, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a heavy state file

Decade-by-decade data for Indiana extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was Robert and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver for boys and Charlotte for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Charlotte

351
Amelia

331
Eleanor

265
Evelyn

252
Sophia

234
Olivia

230
Emma

230
Harper

195
Lainey

190
Violet

183

What this shows Charlotte leads 2025 girls in Indiana; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Oliver

428
Liam

393
Theodore

366
Henry

359
Noah

345
James

263
Hudson

241
Elijah

230
Benjamin

226
Cooper

219

What this shows Oliver leads 2025 boys in Indiana; Robert remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

101,193
Linda

40,165
Jennifer

38,696
Patricia

38,651
Barbara

36,830
Elizabeth

35,113
Betty

33,323
Susan

28,173
Karen

27,843
Nancy

27,694

What this shows Mary leads Indiana girls with 101,193 recorded births.

Robert

129,104
James

128,680
John

114,709
Michael

110,770
David

100,144
William

95,817
Richard

68,331
Charles

65,449
Thomas

54,928
Joseph

50,454

What this shows Robert leads Indiana boys with 129,104 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Indiana for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	Robert	8,962	Mary	15,575
1920s	Robert	22,371	Mary	22,519
1930s	Robert	17,373	Mary	14,997
1940s	James	21,219	Linda	16,419
1950s	Michael	25,406	Mary	14,883
1960s	Michael	21,729	Lisa	14,848
1970s	Michael	18,492	Jennifer	17,103
1980s	Michael	13,495	Amanda	11,144
1990s	Jacob	10,201	Ashley	6,917
2000s	Jacob	7,046	Emma	5,337
2010s	Liam	4,236	Emma	4,314
2020s	Oliver	2,505	Charlotte	2,038

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Robert	129,104
2	James	128,680
3	John	114,709
4	Michael	110,770
5	David	100,144
6	William	95,817
7	Richard	68,331
8	Charles	65,449
9	Thomas	54,928
10	Joseph	50,454
11	Donald	46,822
12	Christopher	44,626
13	Mark	42,060
14	Daniel	41,860
15	Matthew	40,117
16	Steven	37,919
17	Paul	37,619
18	Kenneth	33,907
19	Larry	33,418
20	Timothy	33,160
21	Brian	33,127
22	Ronald	32,897
23	Joshua	32,844
24	Andrew	32,574
25	Jeffrey	30,708
26	Kevin	29,368
27	Jason	28,250
28	Anthony	27,816
29	George	27,283
30	Jacob	26,909
31	Gary	25,243
32	Ryan	24,392
33	Jerry	24,108
34	Stephen	24,043
35	Jack	23,527
36	Scott	23,166
37	Eric	22,509
38	Gregory	21,684
39	Edward	21,538
40	Nicholas	21,227
41	Brandon	19,689
42	Benjamin	19,593
43	Dennis	19,554
44	Samuel	18,544
45	Justin	18,038
46	Terry	17,522
47	Aaron	17,241
48	Tyler	16,864
49	Zachary	16,639
50	Harold	16,562

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	101,193
2	Linda	40,165
3	Jennifer	38,696
4	Patricia	38,651
5	Barbara	36,830
6	Elizabeth	35,113
7	Betty	33,323
8	Susan	28,173
9	Karen	27,843
10	Nancy	27,694
11	Lisa	27,201
12	Sarah	26,153
13	Margaret	25,505
14	Dorothy	23,631
15	Kimberly	23,566
16	Sandra	23,486
17	Jessica	23,393
18	Sharon	23,256
19	Donna	23,030
20	Rebecca	23,028
21	Helen	22,949
22	Angela	22,856
23	Ruth	22,327
24	Carol	22,200
25	Amanda	22,095
26	Amy	21,861
27	Michelle	20,748
28	Emily	20,717
29	Ashley	20,445
30	Pamela	19,949
31	Deborah	19,897
32	Melissa	19,881
33	Janet	18,927
34	Laura	18,920
35	Carolyn	18,311
36	Anna	18,286
37	Cynthia	18,110
38	Debra	17,849
39	Martha	17,377
40	Brenda	17,109
41	Stephanie	16,905
42	Emma	16,405
43	Virginia	16,288
44	Judith	16,207
45	Julie	16,145
46	Heather	15,887
47	Shirley	15,638
48	Rachel	14,341
49	Kathleen	13,940
50	Teresa	13,780

Read with Indiana

Nearest ABS peers for a heavy-registry state (Indiana · DENSE · TREND-LED).

DENSE TREND-LED

Massachusetts · HEAVY

8,213,855 SSA registrations (near-scale with Indiana; ABS Δ 286,908). Leader lane may differ from Indiana's TREND-LED.

Virginia · DENSE

7,595,197 SSA registrations (near-scale with Indiana; ABS Δ 331,750). Leader lane may differ from Indiana's TREND-LED.

Missouri · DENSE

7,456,004 SSA registrations (near-scale with Indiana; ABS Δ 470,943). Leader lane may differ from Indiana's TREND-LED.

Tennessee · DENSE

7,123,698 SSA registrations (near-scale with Indiana; ABS Δ 803,249). Leader lane may differ from Indiana's TREND-LED.

Why names rise and fall

Indiana stamps DENSE · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - heavy-registry states: how cumulative leaders and latest-year splits are computed.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.