MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Manohari mean?
Manohari comes from the Sanskrit adjective meaning captivating or heart-stealing. The word is built around manas, mind or heart, and the verbal idea of drawing it away.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मनोहारी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मनोहरी
Letter-by-letter: manoharī
18,038 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Manohari in Indian usage
19,585 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 17,497 records (89.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,088 records (10.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,288 |
| 1940s | 2,558 |
| 1950s | 3,732 |
| 1960s | 4,416 |
| 1970s | 3,135 |
| 1980s | 2,620 |
| 1990s | 1,368 |
| Other decades | 468 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 15,703 |
| Haryana | 1,420 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 682 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 522 |
| Uttarakhand | 450 |
| Bihar | 346 |
| Punjab | 305 |
| 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, manohara, p. 785,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, manohārin, p. 785,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.