Entry № 4534 · Greek origin

Indigo Indigo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IN-dih-go /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Indian dye, deep blue-purple"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "indian dye, deep blue-purple".

Indigo comes from the Greek indikon, meaning "Indian" — referring to the deep blue dye originally imported from India. The color is one of the seven that Isaac Newton named in the visible spectrum.

Indigo entered the U.S. top 1000 as a girls' name in 2020.

Indian dye. The color between blue and violet.

The name in its native script.

Indigo
Transliteration
Indigo
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪn.dɪ.ɡoʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Indigo stands.

Indigo 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.

Indigos before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Indigo.

The number behind Indigo.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Indigo reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.