India
loc · Latin script
Meaning: subcontinent, republic, Asia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
India is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
18,045 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
subcontinent, republic, Asia
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against India, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
India counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 18,045 | 1 in 18K | 18K | India | 384 |
| ES Spain | 4,944 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | — | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 30 | India | 191 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 72 | India | 121 |
| AR Argentina | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 185 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 50 | India | 57 |
18,045 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
India is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Nom anglais inspiré du pays Inde ; origine géographique, lié au nom du fleuve Indus.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Nom géographique moderne, d’après le pays Inde.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Fiume
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter I.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- India Adamsb. 1927USAmerican singer
- India Summerb. 1975USAmerican pornographic actress
- India Hairb. 1987FRFrench actress
- India de Beaufortb. 1987GBBritish actress
- India Eisleyb. 1993USAmerican actress
- Bobbi Salvör Menuezb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist, model, curator and actor
- India Ennengab. 1994USAmerican actress
- India Amarteifiob. 2001GBBritish actress
- India Fowlerb. 2003GBactress
- India Rose Hemsworthb. 2012GBBritish-Australian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,714 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.9K | #887 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #617 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 185 | #528 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 118 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 86 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 86 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54 | #1,714 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2022 | 11 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2015 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name India mean, and where does it come from?
- subcontinent, republic, Asia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does India have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled india.
- Where is India most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, India is densest in Spain — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name India?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,045 people named India in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about India?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/indiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “India”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.