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Puja

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 818 since 1880
Typical age
34 years, median

Puja popularity over time

Puja rank by birth year, 1975–2015Puja ranked #7,173 in 1975 and #13,006 in 2015. Its best rank in the period was #2,266, in 1984.#10,000#13,006best #2,266 in 19841980199020002010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1975–2015. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Puja was used most in 1988, when 44 babies were given the name. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1975. The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2015.

Babies named Puja per yearPeaks at 44 births in 1988.44 in 198801980199020002010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Puja?

About 800 people named Puja are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 818 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 Puja?

The typical living Puja is 34 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 1980s. By the site’s era rules that makes Puja a late 20th-century name.

Your Puja

Ages of living people named PujaHalf of living Pujas are older than 34 and half younger.median 3402040
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 Puja comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit पूजा.

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

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

Names similar to Puja

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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