MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harbir mean?
Harbir pairs Har, a Punjabi divine-name element related to Hari, with bir, hero. Hari is a name of Vishnu and Krishna, giving the compound a devotional basis for its heroic image.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरबीर
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਹਰਬੀਰ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harbir in Indian usage
4,764 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 443 records (9.3%).
- Recorded as male: 4,321 records (90.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 616 |
| 1960s | 1,021 |
| 1970s | 1,002 |
| 1980s | 1,140 |
| 1990s | 598 |
| Other decades | 387 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,082 |
| Haryana | 968 |
| Punjab | 947 |
| Rajasthan | 377 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 245 |
| Other states | 145 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vīra, p. 1005,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hari, p. 1289,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.