MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Haridvar mean?
Haridvara is the sacred town where the Ganga leaves the Himalayan foothills for the plains. Its Sanskrit name joins Hari, Vishnu, with dvara, gateway. The place-name also became a masculine personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: haridvāra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरिद्वार
Letter-by-letter: haridvāra
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Haridvar in Indian usage
8,139 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling हरिद्वार.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,085 |
| 1950s | 1,682 |
| 1960s | 1,830 |
| 1970s | 1,579 |
| 1980s | 1,125 |
| 1990s | 485 |
| Other decades | 353 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,853 |
| Other states | 3,286 |
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, haridvāra, p. 1290,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.