Puja — girls' name

What the Data Says About Puja

The Social Security Administration has registered 818 babies named Puja between 1975 and 2015, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Puja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Puja performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 312 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Puja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 68 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Puja in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Puja in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 818 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.