Indiana
About Indiana
Indiana is one of those place-names (think Camden and Trenton) that sounds cooler than the place that inspired it. Its fashionable -ana ending certainly sounds eminently name-like, and Indie/Indy/Indi is one of the hottest nickname names for girls right now.
Pronounced in-dee-AN-ah.
As of October 2026, Indiana ranked #2202 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #604 in 1880.
Editor's take: The name Indiana is a girl's name meaning "land of the Indians".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,545 | 70 | 39.2 |
| 2015 | #2,485 | 73 | 40.9 |
| 2016 | #2,290 | 83 | 46.8 |
| 2017 | #1,935 | 104 | 60.2 |
| 2018 | #1,986 | 99 | 58.2 |
| 2019 | #1,891 | 106 | 63.2 |
| 2020 | #1,961 | 97 | 60 |
| 2021 | #1,810 | 112 | 68.3 |
| 2022 | #1,823 | 112 | 68.3 |
| 2023 | #2,025 | 97 | 60.5 |
| 2024 | #2,249 | 83 | 51.2 |
| 2025 | #2,202 | 84 | 52.3 |
World rankings
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Indiana on lists
Famous Indianas
- Indiana Rose Evans
Australian singer and actress
- Indiana Massara
Australian singer and actress
- Indiana Fletcher Williams
founder of Sweet Briar College
- Indiana Hawke
(b. 2011) daughter of actor Ethan Hawke
- Indiana Willow Didak (b. 2012)
daughter of footballer Alan Didak
- Indiana Boon Feek (b. 2014)
daughter of country duo Joey & Rory Feek
Indiana in pop culture
- Indiana
19th of the 50 American states
- Indiana Delmare
title character in George Sand's novel Indiana (1832)
- Indiana Frusk
wife of James J. Rolliver in The Custom of the Country (1913) by Edith Wharton