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Manohar

captivating; pleasing to the mind

Manohar means “captivating; pleasing to the mind”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
M
Historical records
180,472

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Manohar mean?

Manohara joins manas, mind, and hara, taking away, a poetic description of something that captures attention. The second member conveys taking or captivating the mind.

Pronunciation

IAST: manohara

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

मनोहर

Letter-by-letter: manohara

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਮਨੋਹਰ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Manohar in Indian usage

180,472 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (93.3%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 12,111 records (6.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 168,361 records (93.3%).

By birth decade

Manohar: records by birth decade1930s: 3,4131930s1940s: 10,3751940s1950s: 20,1361950s1960s: 33,3481960s1970s: 39,0541970s1980s: 42,9791980s1990s: 30,3801990sOther decades: 787Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s3,413
1940s10,375
1950s20,136
1960s33,348
1970s39,054
1980s42,979
1990s30,380
Other decades787

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan38,697
Madhya Pradesh38,167
Uttar Pradesh26,881
Bihar21,737
Punjab10,243
Jharkhand9,135
Andhra Pradesh7,437
Haryana6,294
Maharashtra5,682
Himachal Pradesh5,534
Uttarakhand3,724
Delhi3,494
Goa1,193
Odisha621
Chandigarh315
Kerala302
Tripura271
Puducherry218
Assam197
Gujarat102
Other states228
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, manohara, p. 785,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: मनोहर ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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