India Girl
How popular is India?
#1,721 girl name in 2025
118 baby girls were named India in the US in 2025, making it the 1721st most popular girl name.
India popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,721 for girls (▼ 371 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 118 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-55% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,018 in 2015, #1,015 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2001 (1,049 girls) |
| Highest rank | #299 in 2001 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
India counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the India family of names ranked #1,294 for girls in 2025 (#1,066 the year before), with 135 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| India | 118 | 87% |
| Indya | 17 | 13% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where India is most popular
Babies named India per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.8 per 1,000 (36 girls)
- Alabama: 0.4 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.3 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (65 girls)
India by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 154 | #418 |
| 1890s | 196 | #479 |
| 1900s | 149 | #829 |
| 1910s | 264 | #982 |
| 1920s | 289 | #1,252 |
| 1930s | 151 | #1,913 |
| 1940s | 250 | #1,384 |
| 1950s | 424 | #1,376 |
| 1960s | 356 | #1,763 |
| 1970s | 1,611 | #652 |
| 1980s | 3,788 | #318 |
| 1990s | 6,112 | #386 |
| 2000s | 6,361 | #299 |
| 2010s | 2,610 | #894 |
| 2020s | 1,275 | #938 |
Girl names about as popular as India
Questions
- Is India a boy or girl name?
- India is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named India were girls.
- How popular is the name India?
- 118 baby girls were named India in the US in 2025, making it the 1721st most popular girl name.
- When was India most popular?
- India peaked in 2001, when 1,049 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #299 in 2001.
- How many people are named India?
- 24,017 babies have been named India in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,285 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is India most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, India was most common in Mississippi, at 0.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.