How Many People Are Named Pooja?
people named Pooja are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 175,905 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,981 babies named Pooja in Social Security records from 1976 to 2018, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
117 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant transcription of PUJA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Pooja in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Pooja alive today is about 30 years old, and 52% are under 30. Half of them were between 24 and 34 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Pooja first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 1997, to 117 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2018.
Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2018
🏆 Rank History
Pooja has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,425, in 1997.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,425 (1997) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,622 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Pooja alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Pooja were born in New Jersey than in any other state: about 291 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Pooja was given 10.2 times as often in New Jersey, 2.6 times in New York and 2 times in Illinois.
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