Indya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- IN-dee-a
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Indya is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “river (the Indus)”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Indya mean?
Sanskrit: variant of India, named via Persian and Greek from Sanskrit sindhu
“river (the Indus)”
Is Indya a girl's or a boy's name?
Indya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Indya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Indya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Indya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 12 | #2,309 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 14 | #2,004 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 15 | #1,561 |
| 2003 | 12 | #1,730 |
| 2002 | 16 | #1,333 |
| 2001 | 15 | #1,398 |
| 2000 | 13 | #1,502 |
| 1999 | 14 | #1,415 |
| 1998 | 11 | #1,694 |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 10 | #1,741 |
How popular is Indya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Indya, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,221st. Its busiest year was 2001, with 125 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Indya in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 135 girls in the US were given Indya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,373, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
- India 118
- Indya 17
Indya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,831 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,593 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,784 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,221 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,221 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,457 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,475 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,422 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 22 | #5,975 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,644 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,530 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,089 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,632 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,342 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,164 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,563 |
| 2001 | 125 | #1,498 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,072 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,179 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,970 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,817 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,756 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,487 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,367 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,501 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,497 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,627 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,863 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,043 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,010 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,307 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,457 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,516 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,609 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,386 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
Names like Indya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Priya Navya Kavya Anya Radhika Isha Arya Aaradhya Akshara Divisha Aarya Vanya
Other spellings of Indya
Names related to Indya
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Siya Leena
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, “Indya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/indya, updated 20 October 2026.