MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hariharan mean?
Hariharan is the southern personal-name form of Harihara, joining Hari and Hara. Harihara is the combined form of Vishnu and Shiva, depicted with attributes of both deities. The two names are also paired separately as Hari and Hara in Sanskrit texts.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरिहरन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഹരിഹരൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hariharan in Indian usage
3,650 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 142 records (3.9%).
- Recorded as male: 3,508 records (96.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 621 |
| 1960s | 867 |
| 1970s | 726 |
| 1980s | 508 |
| 1990s | 482 |
| Other decades | 446 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 2,852 |
| Puducherry | 455 |
| Other states | 343 |
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)
- Wiktionary: हरि ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
- Wikipedia: Harihara ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Wiktionary: हर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.