MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hari mean?
Hari has several colour senses in Sanskrit, but as a devotional name it is a familiar address to Vishnu and Krishna. Haridas places a servant or devotee word after this divine name.
Pronunciation
IAST: hari
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरि
Letter-by-letter: hari
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hari in Indian usage
433,238 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,567 records (4.3%).
- Recorded as male: 414,671 records (95.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,943 |
| 1930s | 13,646 |
| 1940s | 37,055 |
| 1950s | 66,040 |
| 1960s | 92,134 |
| 1970s | 90,683 |
| 1980s | 78,870 |
| 1990s | 51,636 |
| Other decades | 231 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 134,230 |
| Bihar | 56,711 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 50,583 |
| Rajasthan | 47,235 |
| Haryana | 34,648 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 26,669 |
| Punjab | 18,078 |
| Jharkhand | 16,844 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 11,093 |
| Uttarakhand | 9,660 |
| Odisha | 9,304 |
| Kerala | 7,049 |
| Delhi | 4,551 |
| Maharashtra | 1,385 |
| Chandigarh | 1,169 |
| Sikkim | 842 |
| Tripura | 738 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 500 |
| Assam | 410 |
| Goa | 311 |
| Meghalaya | 293 |
| Manipur | 225 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 206 |
| Puducherry | 171 |
| Karnataka | 114 |
| Nagaland | 110 |
| Other states | 109 |
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.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Hari / M | 54 | 668 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
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Documented namesakes
Manikavagasam Harichandra
Malaysian middle-distance runner
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Hari ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Hari; Table_6, C675 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Hari; Table_6, C675
- Wiktionary: हरि ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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