Indie
Pronounced IH1 N D IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 70 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Indie?
Indie is a girls' name, and first appears in 1955. It has been given to 5,927 children — the 1,910th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about nine times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 796 children were given it.
Indy is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Indie and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Indy
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- IH1 N D IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Indie
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Indie
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Indie?
- Indie ranks 1,910th among girls' names in US records, with 5,927 births since 1955. Over the past decade it accounts for 5,120.
- Is Indie a unisex name?
- No. Indie is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Indie most popular?
- 2022, when 796 children were given the name. It has been in use for 70 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Indie spelled?
- Indy. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.