Entry № 4533 · English origin

India India — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IN-dee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Land of the Indus / India.Arie's Grammy soul; Gone with the Wind"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "land of the indus / india.arie's grammy soul; gone with the wind".

India is the English country name — from the Greek Indos (the river Indus). India is also one of the world's seven civilizational regions, home to 1.4 billion people; the subcontinent's name appears in literature from Herodotus through Kipling to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981, Booker Prize).

Land of the Indus.

The name in its native script.

India
Transliteration
India
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪn.di.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where India stands.

India does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Indias before her.

Real people
India.Arie
American Grammy soul singer.
born 1975
India Hicks
British designer.
born 1967
India Eisley
American actress.
born 1993
In fiction
India Wilkes
Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.
1936

Names connected to India.

The number behind India.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of India reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.