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Hariharan name meaning

“Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva)”

Letters
9
Syllables
4
First letter
H
Origin
Tamil · Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2000s: 6.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s6.7%
2010s–

Indian Names: HTamil origin

Hariharan is a Tamil boy's name from Sanskrit meaning 'Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva)'.

What does Hariharan mean?

Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva)

In Malay: Hari (Vishnu) dan Hara (Shiva)

Sources (3)

About the name Hariharan

Hariharan is a Tamil male name from Sanskrit Harihara, the name of the composite form of the deities Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) in Hindu tradition. Hari is an epithet of Vishnu or Krishna, while Hara is a name of Shiva. According to JPN, it was recorded in the 2000s with 268 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil, Sanskrit
SyllablesHa-ri-ha-ran
First letterIndian Names starting with H

Hariharan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
Boy: 268 · 6.7%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Hariharan as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: हरि · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Wikipedia: Harihara · en.wikipedia.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: हर · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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