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How popular is “Indy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Indy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Indy” 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 “Indy” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Indy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Indy” 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
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 18 0.000004774 11 7 22%
1994 12 0.000003228 6 6 0%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 9 7 13%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 5 6 -9%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 11 6 29%
2003 16 0.000004208 10 6 25%
2004 16 0.000004187 9 7 13%
2005 18 0.000004682 7 11 -22%
2006 19 0.000004803 9 10 -5%
2007 26 0.000006504 14 12 8%
2008 41 0.000010431 19 22 -7%
2009 29 0.000007591 18 11 24%
2010 32 0.000008659 20 12 25%
2011 31 0.000008475 15 16 -3%
2012 31 0.000008476 10 21 -35%
2013 44 0.000012069 18 26 -18%
2014 63 0.000016998 39 24 24%
2015 76 0.000020535 46 30 21%
2016 84 0.000022896 57 27 36%
2017 113 0.000031598 64 49 13%
2018 148 0.000042095 91 57 23%
2019 170 0.000048978 115 55 35%
2020 184 0.00005508 141 43 53%
2021 295 0.000087073 236 59 60%
2022 317 0.0000937 246 71 55%
2023 365 0.000110232 287 78 57%
2024 438 0.000131591 361 77 65%

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