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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Narahari

Man-lion; Vishnu as Narasimha

Narahari means “Man-lion; Vishnu as Narasimha”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia
First letter
N
Historical records
9,586

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Narahari mean?

Narahari is a Sanskrit name of Vishnu in his man-lion form, Narasimha. The compound joins nara, man, with hari in its lion sense.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Odia

ନରହରି

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

नरहरि

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Narahari in Indian usage

9,586 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: 2,173 records (22.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 7,413 records (77.3%).

By birth decade

Narahari: records by birth decade1930s: 5181930s1940s: 9671940s1950s: 1,7091950s1960s: 2,0681960s1970s: 2,0371970s1980s: 1,4441980s1990s: 7201990sOther decades: 123Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s518
1940s967
1950s1,709
1960s2,068
1970s2,037
1980s1,444
1990s720
Other decades123

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha8,000
Andhra Pradesh818
Madhya Pradesh249
Jharkhand136
Other states383
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, narahari, p. 529,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.