Indira
Fewer than 120 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name points to "beauty", and it stays with women alone.
Indira Pronunciation
Indira is pronounced een-DEE-rah (/inˈdira/).
What Indira means
Where Indira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Indira comes from Sanskrit, where it names beauty and splendour. In older Hindu texts it serves as an epithet of Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune. The meaning is beauty, piękno in Polish.
The name reached the wider world through Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, born in November 1917. She led the country for years and made the three syllables familiar far past South Asia. No standard diminutive follows the name into Polish. It stays whole on any register, Indira.
In Poland it stays rare, an unusual entry beside the Annas and Katarzynas. At the urząd a clerk writes it exactly as given. Five letters, no Polish ending to soften it. The origin is Sanskrit, and the meaning stays beauty.
How many people are named Indira
1 in 194343 women in Poland is named Indira. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3141 among female names.
Indira as a middle name
Indira is a first name for 116 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1614th, between Francine (20) and Inês (20).
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#1612 Felicjana20
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#1613 Francine20
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#1614 Indira20
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#1615 Inês20
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#1616 Ioanna20