Indu

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.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Indu is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Îñdû

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Indū

• Russian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

  Also written Инду, Інду, Indù

• French given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States

  Also written Indú

• Korean given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Korea, India, United States

  Also written 인두

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Indu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, alternative form of in (“in, within”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, mother

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In nij, mother; a ghostly woman who plagues small children so that they cry often; she is then given a fowl in offering

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In poz-wmp-pro, mother animal; leader; large one of a class

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Romanian, second-person singular imperative of induce

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, unjustified, unwarranted, undue

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Indu Jainb. 1936INIndian businesswoman (1936–2021)
• Indu Malhotrab. 1956INJudge of Supreme Court of India
• Indu Menonb. 1980INIndian writer
• I. B. PrasherINnot in their usual nameIndian mycologist
• Indu SaxenaINresearcher
• Indu BhushanINgovernment of India administrator
• Indu MahadevanUSIndian American computer scientist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Indu a male or female name?

Indu is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Indu have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 492 thousand people named Indu in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled indu.

How common is the name Indu?

In the United States, the national register counted 6,531 people named Andi in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.

How common is Indu compared with other names?

In India, Indu is the 450th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.