# Indigo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/indigo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,242 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,222 / 4,020 (77% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,608, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 64 | 2,743 |
| 2012 | 58 | 2,947 |
| 2013 | 82 | 2,272 |
| 2014 | 111 | 1,830 |
| 2015 | 120 | 1,747 |
| 2016 | 123 | 1,724 |
| 2017 | 167 | 1,381 |
| 2018 | 169 | 1,335 |
| 2019 | 191 | 1,231 |
| 2020 | 244 | 1,028 |
| 2021 | 300 | 901 |
| 2022 | 272 | 979 |
| 2023 | 270 | 961 |
| 2024 | 289 | 921 |
| 2025 | 318 | 854 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 4,884 |
| 2012 | 22 | 4,448 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,048 |
| 2014 | 34 | 3,257 |
| 2015 | 54 | 2,395 |
| 2016 | 47 | 2,640 |
| 2017 | 54 | 2,399 |
| 2018 | 70 | 2,057 |
| 2019 | 55 | 2,438 |
| 2020 | 72 | 1,985 |
| 2021 | 86 | 1,819 |
| 2022 | 118 | 1,528 |
| 2023 | 97 | 1,720 |
| 2024 | 106 | 1,613 |
| 2025 | 113 | 1,531 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 45 | 817 |
| 2012 | 63 | 654 |
| 2013 | 65 | 626 |
| 2014 | 73 | 576 |
| 2015 | 79 | 549 |
| 2016 | 67 | 630 |
| 2017 | 60 | 683 |
| 2018 | 90 | 478 |
| 2019 | 67 | 590 |
| 2020 | 76 | 525 |
| 2021 | 100 | 438 |
| 2022 | 64 | 596 |
| 2023 | 69 | 558 |
| 2024 | 78 | 503 |
| 2025 | 82 | 483 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.