Puja
Puja means "worship". Fewer than fifty people in Poland carry it, almost all of them women, and no newborn has been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one.
Puja Pronunciation
Puja is pronounced POO-yah (/ˈpuja/).
What Puja means
Where Puja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Puja comes from Sanskrit pūjā, the word for worship and the act of honoring a deity with offerings. In Hindu practice, a puja is the ritual itself: flowers, light, water set before an image. The English gloss keeps that meaning plainly. Puja means worship.
Its origin sits outside the usual European stock that fills Polish registers, which is why the site files it under "other." The Polish sense, oddanie czci, holds the same idea of reverence offered up. A person named Puja carries a common noun turned personal, a habit familiar across South Asian naming, where devotional words become given names.
In a Kraków classroom, a Puja on the register would stand apart from the Zuzannas and Julias, with no name-day to mark and no Polish diminutive waiting for her. That is the plain fact of a borrowed name here. It has no variant, no cross-gender pair, no imieniny in the church calendar. What it has is the meaning, steady and legible: pūjā, worship.
How many people are named Puja
1 in 563596 women in Poland is named Puja. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5887 among female names.
Puja as a middle name
Puja is a first name for 43 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8534th, between Priyan (2) and Puji (2).
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#8532 Primo2
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#8533 Priyan2
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#8534 Puja2
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#8535 Puji2
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#8536 Puran2