How popular is “Indigo” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Indigo” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Indigo” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1971	5	0.000001457	5		100%
1983	5	0.000001444	5		100%
1986	7	0.000001968	7		100%
1990	15	0.000003795	15		100%
1991	69	0.000017714	69		100%
1992	75	0.000019525	75		100%
1993	60	0.000015914	60		100%
1994	66	0.000017753	56	10	70%
1995	65	0.000017749	53	12	63%
1996	69	0.000018919	63	6	83%
1997	82	0.000022616	69	13	68%
1998	65	0.000017672	52	13	60%
1999	72	0.000019492	53	19	47%
2000	69	0.000018254	53	16	54%
2001	56	0.00001496	46	10	64%
2002	68	0.00001819	51	17	50%
2003	92	0.000024196	71	21	54%
2004	85	0.000022246	65	20	53%
2005	83	0.000021587	64	19	54%
2006	82	0.000020727	65	17	59%
2007	67	0.00001676	55	12	64%
2008	71	0.000018063	59	12	66%
2009	88	0.000023036	68	20	55%
2010	83	0.000022458	63	20	52%
2011	83	0.000022691	64	19	54%
2012	80	0.000021874	58	22	45%
2013	100	0.00002743	82	18	64%
2014	145	0.000039122	111	34	53%
2015	174	0.000047015	120	54	38%
2016	170	0.000046338	123	47	45%
2017	221	0.000061798	167	54	51%
2018	239	0.000067977	169	70	41%
2019	246	0.000070874	191	55	55%
2020	316	0.000094594	244	72	54%
2021	386	0.000113933	300	86	55%
2022	390	0.000115278	272	118	39%
2023	367	0.000110836	270	97	47%
2024	391	0.00011747	287	104	47%

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