Indiana ranks at #751 with 157 entries, registered male. The name carries a single dominant cultural anchor on a pet registry: Indiana Jones, the archaeologist-adventurer played by Harrison Ford across four films from 1981 to 2023. Owners pick Indiana specifically when the household wants the full reference rather than a softer route.
The Indiana Jones lock
Indiana on a pet registry is overwhelmingly an Indiana Jones name. The original Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) established the character, the next three films extended the cultural register through 2023, and the Disney+ series and broader franchise have kept the reference renewing for younger viewers. The naming logic is straight tribute, and many households compress to Indie in casual contexts while keeping Indiana on the formal license.
The Indie-diminutive overflow
A meaningful share of dogs registered as Indiana on the formal license go by Indie in everyday household use. The two chart entries (Indiana #751 male and Indie #740 female) overlap in real population and reflect different licensing-form preferences from the same households. The gender mismatch between the two entries reflects which spelling reads as more masculine versus feminine to the licensing form-filler.
Sound and breed lean
Four syllables, third-syllable-stressed (in-dee-AN-ah), open vowels throughout. The shape is genuinely long for a call-name. The name lands disproportionately on substantial athletic breeds matching the adventurer register: German Shepherds, Labradors, Boxers, and Bullmastiffs (the franchise's original Indy was named after the Jones family dog, an Alaskan Malamute). The human Indiana page shows growing modern SSA presence as place-naming has trended upward.