MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jhari mean?
Sanskrit jhari denotes a river or flowing stream. Regional Indian speech also uses related jhar forms for flowing water, giving the personal name a natural water image.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
झरी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
झारी
Letter-by-letter: jhārī
2,296 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jhari in Indian usage
8,833 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,415 records (27.3%).
- Recorded as male: 6,418 records (72.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 514 |
| 1940s | 1,164 |
| 1950s | 1,649 |
| 1960s | 1,965 |
| 1970s | 1,706 |
| 1980s | 1,163 |
| 1990s | 535 |
| Other decades | 137 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,864 |
| Bihar | 2,161 |
| Maharashtra | 1,347 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 667 |
| Odisha | 645 |
| Other states | 149 |
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, jharī, p. 428,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.