Given name & surname
Puja
“in Hinduism, a religious ritual”
Puja is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, a religious ritual.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, a religious ritual.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Puja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 818
- 0 boys · 818 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,000 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Puja’s family of names
In English usage, Puja has a related form in Pooja. In English usage, Puja has a related form in Pooja. Puja has a related form in Pouja.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Puja
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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