Feminine dossier · first seen 1976

Pooja

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Pooja
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1997

Peak era

1997

Peak rank proxy

117

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Gen Z

1976Peak 19972024

Peak year

1997

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,981

Pooja is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1997, when 117 girls were named Pooja.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,981 Americans have been named Pooja and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1976.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGen Z

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1997

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