Indio

This name of a California desert town, used by Deborah Falconer and Robert Downey, Jr. for their son, makes a much livelier and more individual – not to mention more masculine – improvisation on the themes of India and Indiana.

The similar sounding color name Indigo is unisex – it was used by Lou Diamond Phillips for his daughter, as well as the group The Indigo Girls, but its o-ending makes it boy-friendly too.

Pronounced IN-dee-oh.

As of October 2026, Indio ranked #12948 in US births in 2023 SSA, peaked at #7046 in 2000.