Puneet — unisex name

What the Data Says About Puneet

The Social Security Administration has registered 163 babies named Puneet between 1987 and 2015, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Puneet currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Puneet is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 160 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Puneet performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Puneet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Puneet in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Puneet 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 163 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.