Hàrish
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hàrish is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of the monkeys’, used since medieval times as a byname of Vishnu. Hàrish is also written หฤท in Thai.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 23Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hàrish itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hàrish in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Harish in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 2 more and หฤษฎ์ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sanskrit: ‘lord of the monkeys’, used since medieval times as a byname of Vishnu.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hàrish counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #257 | ≈750,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 548 | Harish | 293 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Harish | 53 |
| US United States | — | 3,036 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Harish | 326 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | register #764,114 | หฤษฎ์ | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Harish | 31 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Harish | 53 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hàrish mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘lord of the monkeys’, used since medieval times as a byname of Vishnu. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Hàrish a male or female name?
- Hàrish is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Hàrish?
- Mondonomo estimates about 748 thousand people named Hàrish in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harish. After it come Indonesia, United States, Thailand and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hàrish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,036 people named Hàrish in 2020, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Hàrish compared with other names?
- In India, Hàrish is the 257th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A0rishThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hàrish” — ranked 8604th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.