Pooja

Where Pooja comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Pooja
  • Hindi
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #6,611 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Peak, #1,419
    117 babies named Pooja — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,965.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hindi.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.