OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Indian names in official birth records abroad
Exact-spelling counts by jurisdiction, year and publisher. These records describe births abroad and cannot establish a ranking for India.
Choose a jurisdiction
United States
388 exact spellings in the 2025 list. US Social Security Administration (SSA).
Counts and yearly charts →Canada
160 exact spellings in the 2025 list. Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0147-01.
Counts and yearly charts →Ireland
16 exact spellings in the 2025 list. Central Statistics Office (CSO), VSA50 and VSA60.
Counts and yearly charts →British Columbia
15 exact spellings in the 2023 list. BC Vital Statistics Agency.
Counts and yearly charts →England and Wales
289 exact spellings in the 2025 list. Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Counts and yearly charts →Scotland
10 exact spellings in the 2025 list. National Records of Scotland (NRS).
Counts and yearly charts →Rising and falling names in official birth records · Indian historical birth cohorts
Source and method
Counts describe exact spellings in each jurisdiction’s birth records, not a family’s ancestry or nationality. Recorded sexes, spellings and jurisdictions stay separate.
This selection covers names with an Indic origin language and a sourced meaning on this site. Ambiguous spellings such as Maya, Amari and Kali are excluded. Origin describes a name’s words, never its bearers.
Report tables are ordered by latest count. No ranks are presented. Changes compare published 2015 and 2025 counts; missing endpoints have no percentage change. “Not listed” does not mean zero.
Each chart has its own scale. Gaps are unknown. Peaks compare published years only, including ties. Download the CSV for every published yearly count.
United States, 1880–2025
US Social Security Administration (SSA) · Public domain. Names with fewer than 5 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
National counts from Social Security card applications, by birth year and recorded sex.
Canada, 1991–2025
Statistics Canada, table 17-10-0147-01 · Open Government Licence – Canada. Names with fewer than 5 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
National first names at birth. Quebec counts of one to four are imputed in the national source. British Columbia overlaps Canada; the figures must not be added.
Ireland, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), VSA50 and VSA60 · CC BY 4.0. Names with fewer than 3 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
First names in Irish birth registrations.
Northern Ireland, 1997–2025
NISRA · Open Government Licence. Names with fewer than 3 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
First forenames by registration year, including resident and non-resident mothers. Suppression markers are not counts.
British Columbia, 1924–2023
BC Vital Statistics Agency · Open Government Licence – British Columbia. Names with fewer than 5 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
The local files end in 2023. A zero in these files means fewer than five, not a published zero. British Columbia is within Canada; these figures must not be added to national counts.
England and Wales, 1996–2025
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · Open Government Licence v3.0. Names with fewer than 3 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown copyright. Exact first names in live-birth registrations.
Scotland, 1974–2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · Open Government Licence v3.0. Names with fewer than 3 registrations per recorded sex and year are not published.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown copyright. Exact first names in birth registrations.