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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Hare

O Hari; a call to Vishnu or Krishna

Hare means “O Hari; a call to Vishnu or Krishna”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
H
Historical records
17,814

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Hare mean?

Hare is the Sanskrit vocative form used when addressing Hari. In devotional chanting it is a direct call to Vishnu or Krishna, both known by the name Hari.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

हरे

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Hare in Indian usage

17,814 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 410 records (2.3%).
  • Recorded as male: 17,404 records (97.7%).

By birth decade

Hare: records by birth decade1940s: 6181940s1950s: 1,7821950s1960s: 3,9111960s1970s: 5,3261970s1980s: 3,6781980s1990s: 2,2701990sOther decades: 229Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s618
1950s1,782
1960s3,911
1970s5,326
1980s3,678
1990s2,270
Other decades229

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar12,154
Uttar Pradesh1,394
Jharkhand1,354
Delhi808
Madhya Pradesh512
Haryana374
Maharashtra330
Punjab237
Odisha234
Andhra Pradesh114
Other states303
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, hari, p. 1289,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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