Pooja
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has been recorded since 2000: most Poles will never meet one. The name means "worship" or "honour."
Pooja Pronunciation
What Pooja means
Where Pooja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pooja begins in Sanskrit, where pūjā names the act of worship. The ritual came first. The name grew from a word for the offering made before a shrine or an image, so the child given it carries a word for honour rather than a person who once bore it.
The English gloss stays plain: worship, honour. Polish renders the same sense as kult, modlitwa. In Sanskrit practice a pūjā is a daily thing, a lamp and flowers set before a deity. Both glosses point to the reverence a person offers.
On a Polish class register, Pooja can read as a short word set among longer local names. It has no diminutive here, no name-day, no cross-gender variant. What it keeps is its first meaning. Pūjā is worship, and Pooja turns that word into a name.
How many people are named Pooja
1 in 239828 women in Poland is named Pooja. 94 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3591 among female names.