Indie
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Indie is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Independent; from outside the mainstream.
- AUAustralia1 in 10K◐
- USUnited States1 in 18K
- CACanada1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 344 ●
- 1 in 10K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
89K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled India in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 9 more and 인도 in KR South Korea.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Independent; from outside the mainstream.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 17,991 | 73K rec. | 1 in 18K | 18K | India | 344 |
| CA Canada | 8,675 | 503 rec. | — | 13 | India | 49 |
| AU Australia | 6,808 | 4.6K rec. | — | 72 | India | 113 |
| ES Spain | 4,944△ | 185 rec. | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | — | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | 2,602 | 3.5K rec. | — | 30 | India | 150 |
| FR France | 1,035 | 0 rec. | 1 in 66K | 1K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 527△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 402K | 527 | — | 3 |
| KR South Korea | 247 | 237 rec. | — | — | 인도 | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 134△ | 22 rec. | 1 in 76K | 134 | — | 8 |
| PL Poland | 116 | — | 1 in 330K | 116 | — | — |
| AT Austria | 103 | 29 rec. | — | 35 | India | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 96 | 148 rec. | 1 in 180K | 257 | Indie | 17 |
Roughly 18K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 18K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.3K76%
- French2414%
- Indonesian1883%
- Western Frisian1693%
- Spanish1623%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,328 | 76% |
| French | 241 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 188 | 3% |
| Western Frisian | 169 | 3% |
| Spanish | 162 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Indie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pert, to India
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Czech, India (a country in South Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Pertaining to indie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, indie (style)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Nudien
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 23 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 33 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 56 |
| 2012 | 46 |
| 2013 | 62 |
| 2014 | 86 |
| 2015 | 147 |
| 2016 | 208 |
| 2017 | 234 |
| 2018 | 251 |
| 2019 | 311 |
| 2020 | 370 |
| 2021 | 437 |
| 2022 | 550 |
| 2023 | 518 |
| 2024 | 450 |
| 2025 | 459 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,241 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 550 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 518 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 459 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 450 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 437 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 145 | #8,241 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 96 | #5,669 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 74 | #9,341 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 72 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 72 | #9,616 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2016 | 61 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 207 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Indie?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Indie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Indie have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Indie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled india.
- Is Indie a male or female name?
- Indie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Indie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Independent; from outside the mainstream.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Indie”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.