MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pooja mean?
Pūjā names an act of honouring or worship and is used for ritual offerings as well as the personal name. The Sanskrit root pūj concerns honouring or treating someone with respect.
Pronunciation
IAST: pūjā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पूजा
Letter-by-letter: pūjā
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
പൂജ
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Puja
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pooja in Indian usage
1,010,303 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,001,051 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 892 |
| 1930s | 423 |
| 1940s | 968 |
| 1950s | 1,950 |
| 1960s | 6,514 |
| 1970s | 42,906 |
| 1980s | 275,713 |
| 1990s | 680,764 |
| Other decades | 173 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 296,889 |
| Bihar | 202,143 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 133,313 |
| Rajasthan | 116,166 |
| Haryana | 70,051 |
| Delhi | 48,714 |
| Punjab | 37,141 |
| Jharkhand | 31,938 |
| Uttarakhand | 27,458 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 14,513 |
| Karnataka | 8,045 |
| Odisha | 7,978 |
| Chandigarh | 2,793 |
| Goa | 2,650 |
| Assam | 2,553 |
| Kerala | 2,150 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,784 |
| Tripura | 1,419 |
| Maharashtra | 915 |
| Meghalaya | 414 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 324 |
| Sikkim | 212 |
| Manipur | 169 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 143 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 114 |
| Nagaland | 114 |
| Other states | 200 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, pūjā, p. 641,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: पूजा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.