Indiana

girls’ name · 59%boys’ name · 41%Comeback · modern nameCompare

Indiana is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. Its best rank was 604th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 830.01% of girls
Peak year: 2021112 births
Best rank: #604in 1880
Since 1880: 3,392people given the name

Babies named Indiana, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

2,006 girls have been named Indiana in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 112 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 34%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Indiana is used for both sexes: 41% of its bearers are boys (1,386), most of them born around 2019.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Indiana
1880s	36
1890s	58
1900s	58
1910s	78
1920s	73
1930s	30
1940s	11
1950s	11
1980s	46
1990s	160
2000s	255
2010s	689
2020s	501

In 2021, its biggest year

Indiana was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Indiana

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.