Pouya or Pooya or Puya (Persian: پویا) is a male first name of Iranian origin (from a Persian word meaning "dynamic", "in move" or "searcher"). Pouya or Pooya or Puya is not a unisex name in Iran. 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)