girls:
1.9k births since 1880
#3883 (32nd percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1990
#3298 (28th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1880
#4789 (38th percentile)
The name Indiana is the #4,789 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,240 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 38.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,883 (32.0% percentile) for all time with 1,922 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,298 (28.0% percentile) for all time with 1,318 births since 1990.
Indiana has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1990 for boys). Birth data for Indiana is available in 87 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 34 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Indiana has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 56.7% of babies named Indiana were girls.
For girls, Indiana reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #829) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 92 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Indiana ranks #855 for girls (9.7% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 60.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Indiana reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #838) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 44 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2011, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Indiana ranks #842 for boys (7.6% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 92.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Indiana".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Indiana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Indiana is pronounced as ihn-dee-A-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihn-DEE-uh-nuh, at 20.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH2 N D IY0 AE1 N 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.
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