girls:
23.7k births since 1880
#927 (84th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1985
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
23.7k births since 1880
#1651 (79th percentile)
The name India is the #1,651 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,723 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #927 (83.8% percentile) for all time with 23,696 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1985.
India has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1985 for boys).
The name India has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, India reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 67.8% percentile (ranked #290) with 530 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 530 births per million (ranked 67.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, India ranks #772 for girls (18.5% percentile) with 103 births per million, which is 19.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, India reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "India".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of India.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "India", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of India.
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name India. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that India is pronounced as IHN-dee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihn-DEE-uh, at 11.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH1 N D IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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