Name meaning & stats
India
India means “Indus river”. 22,814 US babies since 1940, peak 2001.
What it means
“Indus river”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2001
22,814 US babies were named India between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named India (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 89% of the family
- India 89%
- Indya 7%
- Indiya 2%
- Inda 1%
- Indiyah 1%
- Indiah 1%
- Indyah <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2001)