girls:
3.5k births since 1959
#2922 (49th percentile)
boys:
234 births since 2007
#4352 (5th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1959
#4495 (42nd percentile)
The name Indie is the #4,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,731 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 41.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,922 (48.9% percentile) for all time with 3,497 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #4,352 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 234 births since 2007.
Indie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Indie is available in 26 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023 (26 years for girls and 17 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 Indie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Indie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 49.6% percentile (ranked #483) with 307 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 307 births per million (ranked 49.6% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Indie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #497 (47.6% percentile) with 294 births per million.
For boys, Indie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #900) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Indie ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 91.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Indie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Indie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Indie is pronounced as IHN-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihn-DEE, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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