Indigo
Indigo is a baby name of Greek origin, meaning Deep blue-violet.
What Indigo means
Deep blue-violet.
Indigo sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Indigo comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Indigo is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Indigo?
In the baby name rankings we track, Indigo falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Indigo
Indigo spans Color and Sky, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Indigo
These share Indigo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Blue — The colour of the sky and sea.
- Sapphire — The blue gemstone.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Ianthe — Violet flower.
- Icarus — Follower; one who flew to the sun.
- Amethyst — The calming purple gem.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Ebony — Deep black wood.
- Emerald — The green gemstone.
- Helios — The sun.
- Hyacinth — The fragrant purple bloom.