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How popular is “Indiana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Indiana” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Indiana” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Indiana” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Indiana” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Indiana” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Indiana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Indiana” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 9 0.000044669 9 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 13 0.000020178 13 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 15 0.000003795 9 6 20%
1991 25 0.000006418 15 10 20%
1992 22 0.000005727 11 11 0%
1993 29 0.000007692 18 11 24%
1994 31 0.000008339 14 17 -10%
1995 28 0.000007646 11 17 -21%
1996 38 0.000010419 14 24 -26%
1997 43 0.00001186 21 22 -2%
1998 40 0.000010875 23 17 15%
1999 52 0.000014077 24 28 -8%
2000 51 0.000013492 25 26 -2%
2001 53 0.000014158 22 31 -17%
2002 55 0.000014713 22 33 -20%
2003 42 0.000011046 22 20 5%
2004 46 0.000012039 22 24 -4%
2005 54 0.000014045 26 28 -4%
2006 58 0.000014661 33 25 14%
2007 55 0.000013758 17 38 -38%
2008 83 0.000021116 40 43 -4%
2009 52 0.000013612 26 26 0%
2010 51 0.0000138 34 17 33%
2011 98 0.000026792 54 44 10%
2012 58 0.000015858 33 25 14%
2013 74 0.000020298 33 41 -11%
2014 130 0.000035075 70 60 8%
2015 147 0.00003972 73 74 -1%
2016 155 0.000042249 83 72 7%
2017 176 0.000049214 104 72 18%
2018 173 0.000049205 99 74 14%
2019 190 0.00005474 106 84 12%
2020 177 0.000052985 97 80 10%
2021 186 0.0000549 112 74 20%
2022 182 0.000053796 112 70 23%
2023 171 0.000051643 97 74 13%
2024 151 0.000045366 83 68 10%

Explore other names

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  1. Indhira
  2. Indi
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  4. Indiah
  5. Indian
  6. Indiana (this page)
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  8. Indica
  9. Indie
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  11. Indika