MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harekrishna mean?
Hare Krishna is a devotional invocation addressed to Krishna. In Odisha it also forms a personal name, drawing on Hari and Krishna as names of Vishnu and his incarnation.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरेकृष्ण
Conventional spelling
Odia
ହରେକୃଷ୍ଣ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ହରେକୁଷ୍ଟ
4,504 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harekrishna in Indian usage
4,556 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 947 records (20.8%).
- Recorded as male: 3,609 records (79.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 396 |
| 1950s | 696 |
| 1960s | 816 |
| 1970s | 982 |
| 1980s | 851 |
| 1990s | 539 |
| Other decades | 276 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 4,556 |
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, kṛṣṇa, p. 306,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hari, p. 1289,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.