MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harkesh mean?
Harkesh corresponds to Sanskrit harakeśa, recorded as a form of harikeśa, fair-haired. Harikesha is also a name of Shiva. The same title names a principal ray of the sun in traditional cosmology.
Pronunciation
IAST: harakeśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरकेश
Letter-by-letter: harakeśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harkesh in Indian usage
22,783 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 684 records (3%).
- Recorded as male: 22,099 records (97%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 574 |
| 1950s | 1,205 |
| 1960s | 2,969 |
| 1970s | 4,747 |
| 1980s | 7,548 |
| 1990s | 5,466 |
| Other decades | 274 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,123 |
| Rajasthan | 7,045 |
| Haryana | 3,468 |
| Bihar | 1,950 |
| Punjab | 1,148 |
| Delhi | 1,029 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 511 |
| Uttarakhand | 281 |
| Other states | 228 |
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, harakeśa, p. 1289,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, harikeśa, p. 1290,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.