MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harikesh mean?
Harikesh is Sanskrit harikeśa, fair or golden-haired. The complete name is applied to Shiva and Savitr. It also names one of the sun’s principal rays, giving the hair image a solar setting.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरिकेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harikesh in Indian usage
27,190 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 193 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 26,997 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 562 |
| 1960s | 1,769 |
| 1970s | 4,802 |
| 1980s | 11,244 |
| 1990s | 8,583 |
| Other decades | 230 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,194 |
| Rajasthan | 1,977 |
| Haryana | 1,109 |
| Bihar | 1,103 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 536 |
| Other states | 271 |
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, harikeśa, p. 1290,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.