Indigo

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Primarily a girl's name · Unisex โ€” 89% girls / 11% boys

Meaning

Indigo is a given name often used in reference to the color, a shade between the colors blue and violet. Deep blue indigo dye was originally derived from the plant called true indigo. The name is in use for both boys and girls in the Anglosphere.

From Wikipedia

Indigo first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 79 babies (rank #553 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Indigo

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Indigo yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

812
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
79
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19967#2,187
199711#1,592
199812#1,513
199921#998
200013#1,429
200117#1,210
200213#1,468
200330#864
200418#1,280
200525#1,026
200628#1,015
200731#972
200833#966
200931#1,038
201038#916
201145#824
201263#658
201365#633
201473#577
201579#553
201667#632