MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jahar mean?
Jahar is used in the title Jahar Vir for Gogaji, the folk hero revered in northern India. The similar Indo-Urdu word zahir denotes what is manifest or visible, offering a second explanation in personal naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जाहर
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जहर
Letter-by-letter: jahara
5,852 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jahar in Indian usage
8,471 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 470 records (5.5%).
- Recorded as male: 8,001 records (94.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 394 |
| 1940s | 1,056 |
| 1950s | 1,614 |
| 1960s | 1,900 |
| 1970s | 1,496 |
| 1980s | 1,269 |
| 1990s | 629 |
| Other decades | 113 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,747 |
| Tripura | 680 |
| Jharkhand | 444 |
| Uttarakhand | 441 |
| Assam | 337 |
| Bihar | 251 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 184 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 126 |
| Other states | 261 |
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