girls:
2k births since 1976
#3835 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1976
#5789 (25th percentile)
The name Pooja is the #5,789 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,981 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 25.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,835 (32.9% percentile) for all time with 1,981 births since 1976.
Pooja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976). Birth data for Pooja is available in 43 out of the 43 years between 1976 and 2018. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Pooja reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 13.0% percentile (ranked #751) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 61 births per million (ranked 13.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pooja".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Pooja is pronounced as PUE-juh, which has 2 syllables.
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