MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harihar mean?
Hari and Hara are names of Vishnu and Shiva respectively. Harihar names their combined divine form in literature and worship.
Pronunciation
IAST: harihara
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरिहर
Letter-by-letter: harihara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harihar in Indian usage
46,668 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,624 records (5.6%).
- Recorded as male: 44,044 records (94.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,084 |
| 1940s | 5,334 |
| 1950s | 7,973 |
| 1960s | 18,628 |
| 1970s | 6,444 |
| 1980s | 3,897 |
| 1990s | 1,810 |
| Other decades | 498 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 15,271 |
| Bihar | 11,918 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,915 |
| Jharkhand | 4,436 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,470 |
| Maharashtra | 1,128 |
| Rajasthan | 105 |
| Other states | 425 |
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, harihara, p. 1291,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.