MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vihari mean?
Vihari is a northern form of Bihari, from vihara, roaming or recreation. In the title Banke Bihari it names Krishna, whose play in Braj supplies the familiar devotional association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिहारी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
विहारी
Letter-by-letter: vihārī
7,077 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vihari in Indian usage
8,174 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 153 records (1.9%).
- Recorded as male: 8,021 records (98.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 657 |
| 1950s | 1,193 |
| 1960s | 1,808 |
| 1970s | 1,935 |
| 1980s | 1,691 |
| 1990s | 568 |
| Other decades | 322 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,666 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,192 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,564 |
| Jharkhand | 864 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 496 |
| Rajasthan | 153 |
| Uttarakhand | 105 |
| Other states | 134 |
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, vihārin, p. 1003,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.