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India
Pronounced /ˈɪndi.ə/
Rank in 2024
#1,356
Born in 2024
168
Peak year
2001 · #299
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 168 girls were named India, about 1 in every 9,602.
- It peaked in 2001 with 1,049 babies, ranked #299.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 23,868 girls have been named India since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named India per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 641 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 339 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 697 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,933 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,973 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,871 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,046 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Inherited from Old English India, Indea, from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”). Compare Middle English Inde and Ynde from Old French Ynde (original form started to prevail in the 16th century), Classical Persian هند (hind, “India”), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”). Doublet of Indus, Sindhu, Hindu, and Sindh.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈɪndi.ə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for India, CC BY-SA 4.0.