MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Harsh mean?
Harsh is the personal-name form of Sanskrit harṣa, joy or delight. The older word also describes hair bristling in excitement, linking emotion with a visible bodily response. Sanskrit literature personifies Harsha as a son of Dharma.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हर्ष
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Harsh in Indian usage
34,618 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,349 records (9.7%).
- Recorded as male: 31,269 records (90.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 529 |
| 1950s | 1,280 |
| 1960s | 2,107 |
| 1970s | 3,745 |
| 1980s | 9,372 |
| 1990s | 17,411 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,336 |
| Delhi | 4,994 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,840 |
| Haryana | 3,684 |
| Bihar | 3,661 |
| Rajasthan | 3,287 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,006 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 862 |
| Jharkhand | 844 |
| Maharashtra | 497 |
| Chandigarh | 260 |
| Other states | 347 |
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, harṣa, p. 1292,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.