Indie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Indie: Recorded since 1996, it reached #29 in 2017, and it stood at #109 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
86times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#29highest recorded position
17groupings 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	#3795
1998	#3142
2000	#2746
2001	#2023
2002	#2105
2003	#1722
2004	#1836
2005	#1082
2006	#1435
2007	#1384
2008	#1034
2009	#806
2010	#695
2011	#410
2012	#270
2013	#298
2014	#262
2015	#279
2016	#276
2017	#238
2018	#229
2019	#171
2020	#124
2021	#114
2022	#135
2023	#138
2024	#148

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 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #144 among girls in Northern Ireland, #146 among girls in Scotland, #148 among girls in England and Wales, #156 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 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 recorded2012–2023
Highest recorded position: #29 among girls in New Zealand, in 2017 (recorded 2012–2023).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #109 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Indie appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,873 births with the name.

Indie across 5 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.

Indie'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	#3795 (1996)	#114 (2021)	#148 (2024)	27 of 29	3,873 (1996–2024)	450 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#1828 (2008)	#2443 (2024)	20 of 21	145 (2004–2024)	11 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#910 (2010)	#78 (2021)	#109 (2025)	16 of 16	504 (2010–2025)	74 (2021)
New Zealand · Girls	#61 (2012)	#29 (2017)	#71 (2023)	12 of 12	920 (2012–2023)	99 (2017)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#178 (2013)	#126 (2023)	#144 (2024)	10 of 12	103 (2013–2024)	16 (2023)

Indie 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 Indie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	174	10 of 10	17
2010s	1,771	10 of 10	177
2020sbusiest	1,921	5 of 10	384

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 384 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 103, from 295 to 398.

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

Indie 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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #29 in New Zealand in 2017.

Indie'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	#148	339	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#138	353	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#135	381	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#114	450	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#124	398	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#171	295	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#229	218	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#238	211	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#276	180	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#279	176	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#262	186	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#298	158	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#270	185	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#410	109	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#695	53	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#806	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1034	29	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1384	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	female	#71	54	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#66	63	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#50	72	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#48	73	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#42	85	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	female	#44	79	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#29	99	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	female	#45	80	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	female	#39	91	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	female	#30	91	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	female	#52	69	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	female	#61	64	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#144	14	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#126	16	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#201	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#181	11	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#134	15	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#213	8	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#218	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#215	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#178	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#109	43	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#156	29	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#89	56	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	59	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#78	74	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#106	49	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#119	46	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#179	29	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#205	25	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	26	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#276	18	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	16	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	12	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#337	15	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#146	30	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #29, first reached in 2017.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 450 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.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 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 5 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.

Arabella · #30, 30y
Lottie · #28, 30y
Sonny · #28, 30y
Hallie · #31, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Arabella · #30, 30y
Asher · #28, 30y
Lottie · #28, 30y
Sonny · #28, 30y

Indie was ranked #29 in New Zealand · Girls in 2017. 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.

Indie 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 Indie without appearing here.

Indie moved ahead of

Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3795 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1082 and #3970.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4052 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1981 and #4527.
Einar Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3411 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #4789.

Moved ahead of Indie

Aria Compare
In 2013 they stood at #178 and #218 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #439 and #89.
Bonnie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #178 and #255 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #439 and #171.
Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #270 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #298 and #160.
Nora Compare
In 2013 they stood at #178 and #255 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2014 that had become #439 and #365.

Moved the opposite way to Indie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Indie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indie went from #3795 to #148 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #29 in New Zealand in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Indie

Indie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Indie across 5 official records

Indie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Indie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Indie

Indie and the names beside it

Indie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Indie

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Moved the same way as Indie

Indie at a glance

Indie across 5 official records

Indie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Indie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Indie

Indie and the names beside it

Indie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Indie

Moved the opposite way to Indie

Moved the same way as Indie