Puja

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Puja is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 9 countries

#649 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
276 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.4K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

PujaLatin · Hindi●2.5M records
ปิยาThai · Thai●549 records
ПуджаCyrillic · Russian●162 records
పూజTelugu · Telugu●2 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pooja in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 14 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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Puja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#544,027,2771M rec.—1.2KPuja268
US United States—6,68926K rec.1 in 50K6.7KPooja276
GB United Kingdom—4,0281.9K rec.—listedPooja109
TH Thailand—1,277992 rec.—#376,243ปิยา45
CA Canada—1,2191.1K rec.—5Pooja95
BD Bangladesh#7691,0461.1K rec.—listedPuja32
MY Malaysia—777566 rec.——Pooja23
SG Singapore#773626606 rec.——Pooja61
ID Indonesia—484363 rec.—listedPooja41
NP Nepal—447970 rec.—2Puja46
SA Saudi Arabia—41360 rec.——Puja13
SI Slovenia—390△3 rec.1 in 5.4K395—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●

  • Hindi2.5M95%
  • Bangla30K1%
  • Indonesian22K1%
  • English20K1%
  • Khmer12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,483,52595%
Bangla29,6811%
Indonesian21,7851%
English20,3931%
Khmer12,2501%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Puja is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name25K records spelled Puja6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Puja, Puja', Pûjã, Pujà

  • English given name24K records spelled Puja11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Püjà, Pùjã, Pûjã

  • a separate given name3.6K records spelled Puja2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Pūjā

  • Russian given name328 records spelled Puja9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Iran, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Pouya, Пуйя, Пуия, Puiia

  • Polish given name316 records spelled Puja2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Pùjà

  • Italian given name203 records spelled Puja2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Puya

  • a separate given name109 records spelled Puja2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Pùjâ

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Puja is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mfe, a religious ritual performed as an act of worship.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In map-pro, navel, umbilical cord

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Catalan, ascent, rise, gain

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, an act of worship

    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●

025K50K75K100K19001920194019601980200096K · 1993

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Puja in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1897–2017
Yearrecords
18972
189934
19004
19011
19031
190816
19132
19152
191617
191714
191828
191923
192044
192127
192247
1923369
192498
192590
19269
19279
19289
192934
193010
193112
193216
193321
193427
193520
193621
193727
193818
193922
194024
194140
194236
194329
194435
194544
194657
194768
194854
194950
195059
195166
195281
195375
195492
195592
1956123
1957102
1958141
1959180
1960187
1961214
1962291
1963307
1964354
1965439
1966503
1967558
1968729
1969735
1970859
1971999
19721,364
19731,496
19741,909
19752,515
19763,729
19774,759
19785,814
19796,810
19807,187
198110,547
198212,820
198316,273
198418,806
198522,296
198625,046
198734,110
198837,022
198945,539
199051,580
199165,379
199283,960
199395,544
199491,899
199582,001
199660,097
199751,591
199834,610
19992,550
200047
200128
200214
20032
20063
200722
2008736
20091
20101,077
20117
201267
201370
20143,306
20152,330
20169
201710

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 108 years between 1897–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Pooja Bhatt, b. 1972Pooja Batra, b. 1976Pooja Dhingra, b. 1986Puja Banerjee, b. 1987Pooja Ghatkar, b. 1989Pooja Hegde, b. 1990Pooja Khanna, b. 1990Pooja Banerjee, b. 1991Pooja Dhanda, b. 1994
  • Pooja Bhattb. 1972INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
  • Pooja Batrab. 1976INnot in their usual nameIndian-American actress
  • Pooja Dhingrab. 1986INnot in their usual nameIndian pastry chef and businesswoman
  • Puja Banerjeeb. 1987INIndian television actress, Film actress
  • Pooja Ghatkarb. 1989INnot in their usual nameProfessional rifle shooter
  • Pooja Hegdeb. 1990INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
  • Pooja Khannab. 1990INnot in their usual nameIndian archer
  • Pooja Banerjeeb. 1991INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
  • Pooja Dhandab. 1994INnot in their usual nameIndian woman freestyle wrestler
  • Pooja KapurINnot in their usual nameIFS 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 33 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Puja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199396K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199492K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199284K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199582K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199165K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199660K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199752K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199052K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198946K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198837K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199835K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198734K—

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 · 307 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Puja?
We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Puja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Puja have the most bearers?
Puja is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled puja.
How common is Puja compared with other names?
In India, Puja is the 54th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Puja a male or female name?
Puja 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

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Puja” — the 54th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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