Indiana is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
Few children have been named Indiana in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 children are currently called Indiana. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Indiana at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Indiana is number *** on the list of most common first names.
If your name is Indiana your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Indiana never ranked higher than position 1,191 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their newborn Indiana. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1880 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Indiana because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Indiana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Indiana still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 178 times in the entire U.S. So, a Indiana from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with I, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But I is by no means the rarest initial. While U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K.
With seven letters, the name Indiana has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all first names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Indiana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Indiana, you can simply say:
Igloo
Nut
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Indiana
Indiana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
N
D
I
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
N
D
I
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Indiana sounds like this:
