Spellings
Indie or Indy?
In the US in 2025, 49% of babies in this name family were spelled Indie and 44% Indy. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Indie already led in 2015, with 67% of the family's births; it has 52% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 218 to 881 births (×4).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indie | 147 | 459 | ×3 |
| Indy | 46 | 353 | ×8 |
| Indi | 25 | 69 | ×3 |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /ˈɪndi/ (IN-dee). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Indie 10 births. The other spellings are not given there often enough to be counted.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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