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Indra

Just 64 people in Poland carry it, split closely enough between men and women to count as unisex. Most Poles have never met one. The name traces back to "possessing drops of rain".

Indra Pronunciation

Indra is pronounced EEND-rah (/ˈindra/).

Alive in 2025
64
National rank
#4570

What Indra means

Where Indra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

The name Indra comes from Sanskrit, where it names the Vedic god of storm and rain, the king of the devas. One old etymology traces it to indu, a drop, which gives the English gloss possessing drops of rain. In the hymns of the Rigveda, Indra wields the thunderbolt and breaks open the clouds so water can fall.

That older sense of command survives in the Polish reading of the name: potężny, władny. Indra rules the sky and the weather in it. The figure is powerful before he is anything else.

In Poland the name is rare. A child called Indra on a school register stands out at once, since it carries no Polish name-day and no local diminutive. What it does carry is old. The short meaning stays literal: possessing drops of rain.

How many people are named Indra

1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Indra. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4570 among male names.

People with the name Indra 2019 → 2025
64 +46 since 2019
2020 20 +2
2021 22 +2
2022 28 +6
2023 38 +10
2024 51 +13
2025 64 +13

Indra as a middle name

Indra is a first name for 64 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3899th, between Imad (7) and Ireneus (7).

As a first name
64
As a middle name
7
first name 90% middle name 10%

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