MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harishankar mean?
Hari names Vishnu and Shankara names Shiva in this compound. The paired reference resembles the divine combination in Harihar.
Pronunciation
IAST: hariśaṅkara
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरिशंकर
Letter-by-letter: hariśaṅkara
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
हरीशंकर
Letter-by-letter: harīśaṃkara
29,983 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harishankar in Indian usage
49,384 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 194 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 49,190 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 721 |
| 1940s | 2,536 |
| 1950s | 5,601 |
| 1960s | 9,495 |
| 1970s | 11,026 |
| 1980s | 12,655 |
| 1990s | 7,215 |
| Other decades | 135 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,218 |
| Bihar | 11,439 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,114 |
| Rajasthan | 4,945 |
| Jharkhand | 1,130 |
| Uttarakhand | 279 |
| Haryana | 121 |
| Other states | 138 |
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, hari, p. 1289,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.