Pouya (name)

Pouya or Pooya or Puya is a unisex first name of Iranian origin (from a Persian word meaning "dynamic", "in move" or "searcher"). Notable people with the name include:

First name

 * Pouya Jalili Pour, Iranian-born singer, born 1976
 * Pouya Bakhtiari, Iranian protester, born 1992
 * Pouya Idani, Iranian chess-player, born 1995
 * Pouya Norouzinejad, Iranian handball-player, born 1994
 * Pouya Saraei, Iranian composer, born 1983
 * Pouya Khazaeli, Iranian architect
 * Pouya Seifpanahi, Iranian footballer, born 1986
 * Pouya Tajik, Iranian footballer, born 1980
 * Poya Asbaghi, Swedish-Iranian football manager, born 1985

Last name

 * Ashkan Pouya, Swedish Serial Entrepreneur, born 1976
 * Kevin Pouya, known mononymously as Pouya, American rapper, born 1994
 * Mahdi Puya, Iranian Islamic scholar in Indian Sub-continent, (1899—1973)