MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harnam mean?
Harnam combines Har with nām, name. Har is used as a divine name in Punjabi devotional language. The compound is associated with the practice of remembering and reciting the divine name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हरनाम
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਹਰਨਾਮ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harnam in Indian usage
19,120 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,821 records (9.5%).
- Recorded as male: 17,299 records (90.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,340 |
| 1940s | 2,259 |
| 1950s | 2,839 |
| 1960s | 3,733 |
| 1970s | 3,666 |
| 1980s | 3,064 |
| 1990s | 1,594 |
| Other decades | 625 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,197 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,630 |
| Punjab | 3,823 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,912 |
| Haryana | 1,464 |
| Rajasthan | 584 |
| Uttarakhand | 377 |
| Other states | 133 |
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, harināman, p. 1290,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.