MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harish mean?
Harish is conventionally associated with Hari, a name of Vishnu, and īśa, lord. Sanskrit harīśa also denotes a king of monkeys, using hari in its animal sense.
Pronunciation
IAST: harīśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरीश
Letter-by-letter: harīśa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
हरिश
Letter-by-letter: hariśa
23,765 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harish in Indian usage
22,579 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 138 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 22,441 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 814 |
| 1960s | 1,344 |
| 1970s | 3,310 |
| 1980s | 6,191 |
| 1990s | 10,474 |
| Other decades | 446 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 9,769 |
| Delhi | 9,255 |
| Kerala | 2,278 |
| Goa | 396 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 135 |
| Puducherry | 123 |
| Other states | 623 |
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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Documented namesakes
Harish Shankar
Malaysian-German conductor
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Harish ↗ (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
- Monier-Williams, hari, p. 1289,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, harīśa, p. 1291,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.