Given name & surname
Inda
“from the river; woman from India”
Inda is a variant of India. One English interpretation is “from the river; woman from India.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Inda is a variant of India. One English interpretation is “from the river; woman from India.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Inda is a variant of India. An origin associated with India is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Inda is a variant of India. The history of India gives this family its wider story. A character in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind bears India as a first name, which may have encouraged its wider use. India Hicks’s family chose her name to reflect their association with India.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Inda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 506
- 0 boys · 506 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 386 as a first name in 2020; 1,020 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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