Pooja

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Hindi origin

Living in the US: ~1,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 1,981 since 1880
Typical age: 29 years, median

Pooja popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1976–2018. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1997 is the peak year for Pooja, with 117 births. 1976 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2018.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Pooja?

An estimated 1,900 living Americans are called Pooja. SSA has recorded 1,981 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Pooja?

Half of living Poojas are older than 29, half younger. The 1990s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Pooja a millennial-era name.

Your Pooja

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Pooja comes from

Borrowed from Hindi पूजा (“worship”), from Sanskrit.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Hindi names are used in American and British births on the Hindi names page.

Notable people named Pooja

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Pooja Hegde	Indian actress	1990	53
Pooja Bhatt	Indian actress	1972	40
Pooja Bedi	Indian actress	1970	26
Pooja Batra	Indian-American actress	1976	20
Pooja Dhanda	Indian woman freestyle wrestler	1994	17
Pooja Banerjee	Indian actress	1991	13
Pooja Sawant	Indian actress	1990	12
Pooja Dhingra	Indian pastry chef and businesswoman	1986	11