Jind is a Punjabi name that means "life" or "soul", a word borrowed from Persian that appears in countless Punjabi love songs. Its most famous bearer is Maharani Jind Kaur, the last queen of the Sikh Empire in the 19th century, who resisted British rule in the Punjab. In the United States Jind is used by Sikh and Punjabi families and is very new: it first appeared in 2019 at number 13047 and has risen each year since, to number 2523 in 2025.