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Pharahad

Farhad, the lover of Shirin

Pharahad means “Farhad, the lover of Shirin”.

Origin language
Persian / Urdu
First letter
P
Historical records
2,165

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Pharahad mean?

Farhad is the mountain-carving lover in Persian stories of Shirin. His labour to reach her made the name an enduring image of devoted love in Persian and Urdu literature.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

फ़रहाद

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Pharahad in Indian usage

2,165 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: 1,633 records (75.4%).
  • Recorded as male: 532 records (24.6%).

By birth decade

Pharahad: records by birth decade1960s: 2511960s1970s: 5271970s1980s: 7811980s1990s: 5001990sOther decades: 106Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s251
1970s527
1980s781
1990s500
Other decades106

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh907
Bihar650
Madhya Pradesh299
Jharkhand180
Other states129
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

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