Indy

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Indy: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #296, and it stood at #325 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#296highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3225
2004	#3725
2005	#3970
2006	#3548
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#3031
2010	#1584
2011	#2636
2012	#1150
2013	#1098
2014	#1501
2015	#1405
2016	#1370
2017	#1330
2018	#1526
2019	#1252
2020	#969
2021	#884
2022	#775
2023	#794
2024	#696

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 22 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #696 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3225 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2013–2025
Highest recorded position: #296 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2013–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #325 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Indy appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 482 births with the name.

Indy 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.

Indy'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	#3225 (1999)	#696 (2024)	#696 (2024)	22 of 26	482 (1999–2024)	54 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#2254 (2002)	#845 (2020)	#847 (2024)	22 of 23	386 (2002–2024)	38 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#296 (2023)	#325 (2025)	10 of 13	73 (2013–2025)	13 (2023)

Indy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Indy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	42	7 of 10	6
2010s	198	10 of 10	20
2020sbusiest	146	5 of 10	29

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 29 births a year.

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

Indy 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 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #296 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Indy'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	#696	54	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#847	38	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#794	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#775	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#884	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1055	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#969	35	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#845	35	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1252	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1152	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1526	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1194	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1068	27	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1370	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1903	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1046	27	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1191	22	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #296, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

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 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 25 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 3 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.

Lailah · #296, 28y
Mikail · #296, 29y
Poppie · #296, 29y
Eryn · #297, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aela · #296, 23y
Annabella · #296, 29y
Lailah · #296, 28y
Mikail · #296, 29y

Indy was ranked #296 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Indy 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 Indy without appearing here.

Indy moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #5707.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #5707.
Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Indy

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1055 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1314 and #967.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1501 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1405 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1330 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1526 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Indy

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Indy

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Indy went from #3225 to #696 and Amalie from #2770 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 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #296 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Indy

Indy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Indy across 3 official records

Indy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Indy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Indy moved ahead of

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Indy at a glance

Indy across 3 official records

Indy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Indy 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 Indy

Indy and the names beside it

Indy moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Indy

Moved the opposite way to Indy

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