Pooja
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pooja is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script.
- INIndia1 in 808◐
- USUnited States1 in 50K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 51K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.9K ●
- #649 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 276 ●
- 1 in 5.4K ◐
across 9 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.1M records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Puja in IN India, BD Bangladesh, NP Nepal and 5 more and ปิยา in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #54 | 4,027,277 | 1M rec. | — | 1.2K | Puja | 268 |
| US United States | — | 6,689 | 26K rec. | 1 in 50K | 6.7K | Pooja | 276 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,028 | 1.9K rec. | — | listed | Pooja | 109 |
| TH Thailand | — | 1,277 | 992 rec. | — | #376,243 | ปิยา | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,219 | 1.1K rec. | — | 7 | Pooja | 95 |
| BD Bangladesh | #769 | 1,046 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Puja | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 777 | 566 rec. | — | — | Pooja | 23 |
| SG Singapore | #773 | 626 | 606 rec. | — | — | Pooja | 61 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 484 | 363 rec. | — | listed | Pooja | 41 |
| NP Nepal | — | 447 | 970 rec. | — | 2 | Puja | 46 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 413 | 60 rec. | — | — | Puja | 13 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 390△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 395 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi1.4M85%
- English55K3%
- Urdu23K1%
- Bangla23K1%
- Indonesian19K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 1,357,121 | 85% |
| English | 54,850 | 3% |
| Urdu | 23,282 | 1% |
| Bangla | 23,167 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 18,817 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Pooja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative form of puja.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 19 |
| 1979 | 26 |
| 1980 | 20 |
| 1981 | 27 |
| 1982 | 26 |
| 1983 | 32 |
| 1984 | 43 |
| 1985 | 41 |
| 1986 | 39 |
| 1987 | 45 |
| 1988 | 47 |
| 1989 | 49 |
| 1990 | 56 |
| 1991 | 77 |
| 1992 | 104 |
| 1993 | 94 |
| 1994 | 100 |
| 1995 | 91 |
| 1996 | 113 |
| 1997 | 117 |
| 1998 | 91 |
| 1999 | 114 |
| 2000 | 78 |
| 2001 | 68 |
| 2002 | 71 |
| 2003 | 70 |
| 2004 | 53 |
| 2005 | 56 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1976–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pooja Bedib. 1970INIndian actress (born 1970)
- Pooja Bhattb. 1972INIndian actress
- Pooja Batrab. 1976INIndian-American actress
- Pooja Dhingrab. 1986INIndian pastry chef and businesswoman
- Puja Banerjeeb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian television actress, Film actress
- Pooja Hegdeb. 1990INIndian actress
- Pooja Sawantb. 1990INIndian actress
- Pooja Banerjeeb. 1991INIndian actress
- Pooja Dhandab. 1994INIndian woman freestyle wrestler
- Pooja KapurINIFS officer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 139 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pooja?
- We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Pooja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pooja have the most bearers?
- Pooja is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled puja.
- How common is Pooja compared with other names?
- In India, Pooja is the 54th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Pooja a male or female name?
- Pooja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pooja” — the 54th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.