Entry № 8222 · Sanskrit origin

Pooja Pooja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POO-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Worship (Sanskrit Hindu prayer ritual)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "worship (sanskrit hindu prayer ritual)".

Pooja is from the Sanskrit pūjā (worship, prayer, ritual offering). Pooja Gor — Indian TV actress. Pooja Mishra — Indian model.

Worship (Sanskrit Hindu prayer ritual) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पूजा
Transliteration
Pūjā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpuː.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pooja stands.

Pooja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Poojas before her.

Real people
Pooja Bhatt
Indian Bollywood actress.
born 1972
Pooja Hegde
Indian actress (50+ films).
born 1990
In fiction
Pūjā
Hindu devotional ritual.

Names connected to Pooja.

The number behind Pooja.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pooja reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.