MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lahari mean?
Lahari belongs to the Sanskrit lahari family of words for a wave. The image also appears in titles of devotional verse, where successive verses are imagined as waves.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लहरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lahari in Indian usage
10,077 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: 5,885 records (58.4%).
- Recorded as male: 4,192 records (41.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 627 |
| 1940s | 1,420 |
| 1950s | 1,917 |
| 1960s | 2,104 |
| 1970s | 1,650 |
| 1980s | 1,387 |
| 1990s | 764 |
| Other decades | 208 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,999 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,664 |
| Bihar | 1,130 |
| Haryana | 399 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 272 |
| Gujarat | 173 |
| Maharashtra | 157 |
| Jharkhand | 126 |
| Other states | 157 |
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, lahari, p. 899,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.