India
Fewer than 120 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name traces to the Indus river, Latin by route, and it's given to fewer girls each year now.
India Pronunciation
India is pronounced EEND-yah (/ˈindja/).
What India means
Where India comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
India entered Latin as the name of a country, and that country was named for a river. The Indus, called sindhu in Sanskrit, meant "river" and nothing grander. Rome borrowed the word, and the land beyond the water became India. For centuries India was a place before it was a person.
The name spread through English, where it stayed rare and faintly literary. Margaret Mitchell handed it to India Wilkes, Ashley's sister, in Gone with the Wind (1936). Many readers met the name on a printed page before they met a girl who wore it.
On a Polish class register the name would stand out at once. The meaning stays plain. India points back through Latin to sindhu, a Sanskrit word for a river.
How many people are named India
1 in 203098 women in Poland is named India. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3237 among female names.
India's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where India is most popular
India is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+904%
India as a middle name
India is a first name for 111 women in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 992nd, between Evelina (48) and Leonor (48).
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#990 Dominica48
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#991 Evelina48
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#992 India48
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#993 Leonor48
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#994 Mina48