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India

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India is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 168 births. Its best rank was 299th, in 2001.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1680.01% of girls
Peak year
20011,049 births
Best rank
#299in 2001
Since 1880
23,868people given the name
Babies named India, by year of birthgirls
05001k1.5k2k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

23,868 girls have been named India in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 1,049 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named India
1880s154
1890s196
1900s149
1910s264
1920s289
1930s151
1940s250
1950s424
1960s356
1970s1,611
1980s3,788
1990s6,112
2000s6,360
2010s2,610
2020s1,154

In 2001, its biggest year

India was the 299th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.

Names that rose and fell with India

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.