Indie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Independent; from outside the mainstream
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪndi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Indie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 18Kas India(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20Kas India
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33Kas India
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Indie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)
18,045 named India, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled India in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Indie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 18,045as India | 1 in 18K | 18K | India | 384 |
| ES Spain | 4,944as India | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | — | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 30 | India | 191 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 72 | India | 121 |
| AR Argentina | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 185 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 116 | 1 in 149K | 257 | India | 15 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 50 | India | 57 |
18,045 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
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 |
| 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 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 50 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- In which country does Indie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Indie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Indie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 149 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Indie mean, and where does it come from?
- Independent; from outside the mainstream. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Indie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 116 people named Indie, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Indie?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪndi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Indie?
- In the etymology graph, Indy is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Indie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/indieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 2026-10-10.