Indigo

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Indigo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Indigo: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #438 in 2021, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#438highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1543
1998	#1480
1999	#985
2000	#1389
2001	#1170
2002	#1442
2003	#855
2004	#1252
2005	#1012
2006	#1004
2007	#963
2008	#957
2009	#1022
2010	#910
2011	#817
2012	#654
2013	#626
2014	#576
2015	#549
2016	#630
2017	#683
2018	#478
2019	#590
2020	#525
2021	#438
2022	#596
2023	#558
2024	#503

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #525 among girls in England and Wales, #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #438 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Indigo appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,324 births with the name.

Indigo across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Indigo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#438 (2021)	#503 (2024)	29 of 29	1,324 (1996–2024)	100 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#2425 (1999)	#1391 (2021)	#2088 (2024)	22 of 26	190 (1999–2024)	18 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2016)	#718 (2025)	#718 (2025)	4 of 10	15 (2016–2025)	4 (2016)

Indigo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Indigo in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	51	4 of 10	13
2000s	239	10 of 10	24
2010s	647	10 of 10	65
2020sbusiest	387	5 of 10	77

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 77 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births fell by 36, from 100 to 64.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Indigo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #438 in England and Wales in 2021.

Indigo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#503	78	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#558	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1906	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#596	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#438	100	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#525	76	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#590	67	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#478	90	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#683	60	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#630	67	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#576	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#626	65	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#654	63	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#817	45	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#957	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#963	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1004	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#855	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#985	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1480	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #438, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 100 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leilani · #439, 29y
Orlando · #439, 29y
Aleyna · #440, 29y
Lotti · #440, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abdelrahman · #439, 19y
Caleigh · #439, 14y
Daisy-Mae · #439, 29y
Finan · #439, 23y

Indigo was ranked #438 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Indigo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Indigo without appearing here.

Indigo moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1906 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Willow Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #4432.
Joakim Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4527 and #3227 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2055 and #4685.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2335 and #4810.

Moved ahead of Indigo

Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2070 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #3849 and #1190.
Arlo Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #1188.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1391 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1391 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #1224.

Moved the opposite way to Indigo

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Indigo

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indigo went from #2096 to #503 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #438 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Indigo

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Indigo across 3 official records

Indigo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Indigo across 3 official records

Indigo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Indigo appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Indigo moved ahead of

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