About the name Puja
Puja belongs to the Hindu & Indian tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Puja first appears in Social Security records in 1975. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2288 in 1984, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 818 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.