Indigo

What Indigo means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,743 in 2015, #853 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Indigo?

US: Rising: up from #1743 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #549 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 318 girls got the name (#853 that year). First in the US records in 1971.

How common

• About 1 in 5,054 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,089 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 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 ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.54 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Indigo is #853 in the US and #483 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 73.8% of US babies named Indigo were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Indica18 US

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 Indigo

Girls

• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Cecilia#108possibly “blind”^*
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Maisie#233Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Remi#145Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #502 in 2015, #145 in 2025

For a brother

• Lorenzo#117Editor’s note Up from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 560 US boys in the 2025 records
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Adonis#241Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #698 in 2015, #241 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Baker#217From a surname for “a baker, or owner of a communal oven”^*
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*

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 Indigo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.