Indiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- IN-dee-ya
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Indiyah is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “river”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Indiyah mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Indiya, itself a spelling of India, ultimately from Sanskrit sindhu 'river'
“river”
Spelling of India; the country's name comes via Greek and Persian from Sanskrit Sindhu, the Indus river.
Meaning borrowed from Indiya.
Is Indiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Indiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Indiyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2023, with 12 girls.
Indiyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
How popular is Indiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Indiyah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Indiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Indiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,440 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Nicknames for Indiyah
- Indy 72 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Indiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anaya, Aaliyah, Inaya, Arya, Aadhya, Raya, Prisha, Ishani, Ayah, Haniya, Isha, Amaya
Names related to Indiyah
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Indiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/indiyah, updated 20 October 2026.