How rare is the name Pooja?

6,697 people in the United States have the first name Pooja, about 1 in 45,100. It ranks #3,212 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

POOJA

#3,212

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,697
About
1 in 45,100
This common or more
81.9%
Who bears it

Of the 6,697 people named Pooja, 96% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander and 2.1% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Pooja peaked in 1997, when 117 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762018
Peak year
1997
Births that year
117
In 2018
5 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 1,981 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Pooja by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #2,744. The largest share of babies named Pooja, 49.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#10,27368
1980s#4,173369
1990s#2,744957
2000s#5,367501
2010s#18,41486
Generation X 1965–804.4%
Millennials 1981–9649.7%
Generation Z 1997–1243.6%
2013 and later2.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Pooja is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Pooja has been most common in New Jersey (10×), California (2.5×), and New York (2.3×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.64×).

1,041 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Pooja

#3,210 Madalynn · 6,707#3,211 Keon · 6,703#3,213 Jhon · 6,691#3,213 Lanny · 6,691

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