How Many People Are Named Puja?
people named Puja are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 427,765 people in the US has this name
Based on 818 babies named Puja in Social Security records from 1975 to 2015, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
44 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "honour, worship" in Sanskrit. This is the name of a Hindu ritual of reverence.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Puja in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Puja alive today is about 33 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 40 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Puja first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1988, to 44 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2015.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2015
🏆 Rank History
Puja has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,287, in 1984.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #2,287 (1984) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,007 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Puja alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Puja were born in California than in any other state: about 66 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Puja was given 5.7 times as often in Illinois, 3.3 times in New York and 2.1 times in California.
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