What baby names are unique to Indiana?

Kreigh is the name most distinctive to Indiana, given about 13 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Donnabelle, Infantmale and Jama follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in Indiana is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to Indiana

The most distinctive Indiana baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in Indiana than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Kreigh leads: it is given about 13× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of Indiana births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Kreigh	10	13×
2	Donnabelle	126	11×
3	Infantmale	8	9×
4	Jama	324	8×
5	Waneta	342	6×
6	Infboy	5	6×
7	Luvender	5	6×
8	Brayton	335	5×
9	Bawi	41	5×
10	Madonna	1,042	5×
11	Wilmajean	5	5×
12	Infant	829	4×
13	Valada	12	4×
14	Monzelle	5	4×
15	Herschel	742	3×
16	Rex	3,935	3×
17	Naunihal	5	3×
18	Dorotha	306	3×
19	Cinda	301	3×
20	Nila	460	3×
21	Ryne	297	3×
22	Maciah	32	3×
23	Verlin	258	3×
24	Lowell	2,340	3×
25	Rick	4,376	2×
26	Patty	3,344	2×
27	Menno	93	2×
28	Treva	515	2×
29	Wilma	7,004	2×
30	Dewayne	1,354	2×
31	Sondra	1,379	2×
32	Ladonna	1,074	2×
33	Latanza	10	2×
34	Tinley	202	2×
35	Beth	7,689	2×
36	Kent	3,391	2×
37	Donita	276	2×
38	Sue	6,758	2×
39	Vonda	523	2×
40	Gracelynn	663	2×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to Indiana in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Annalynn	6	9×
Verena	6	9×
Wallen	6	9×
Jayna	8	8×
Jamin	7	7×
Chasity	5	6×
Erma	5	6×
Flint	5	6×
Gannon	5	6×
Gryffin	5	6×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Donnabelle	8×
1920s	Donnabelle	13×
1930s	Madonna	5×
1940s	Madonna	5×
1950s	Jama	8×
1960s	Jama	7×
1970s	Jama	9×
1980s	Kreigh	13×
1990s	Brayton	14×
2000s	Brayton	7×
2010s	Bawi	8×
2020s	Infantmale	17×

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org