Indie

What Indie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Indie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #134 vs #632 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Indie?

US: Rising: up from #1526 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #279 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 550 girls got the name (#552 that year). First in the US records in 1959.

How common

• About 1 in 3,502 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 690 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 746 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (4.07 per 1,000 girls), WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls), AR (1.23 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Indie is #632 in the US and #134 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.4% of US babies named Indie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Andie443 US · 31 E&W
• India118 US · 79 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Indie

Girls

• Evie#270Editor’s note Up from #510 in 2015 to #270 in 2025 in the US
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*

For a brother

• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Indie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.