Cognomen Hari Shankar (Hari Shankar 
) , throughout the world, is a very rare family name. The last name Hari Shankar is characteristic of Southern Asia, particularly India, where it is an extremely rare surname. Much more frequently, Hari Shankar is the forename as well as the last name.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
|---|---|
| Hari Shankar | Nepal, India, Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
Sah, Maurya, Moktan, Mishra, Sharma, Shukla, Bansal, Kasoju, Pandey, Prasad, Thakur, Tiwari, Manohar, Shankar, Chauhan, Jaiswal, Kazhinjeth Unnikrish, Kazhinjethunnikrishn, Upadhyay, Choudhary, Narayanan, Kumar Yadav, Mahato, Thapa Magar, Mandal, Verma, K B, Pal, Ram, Ray, Das, Jha, Sahu, Shah, Rana, Tudu, Meena, Mhato, Saini, Singh, Koiri, Kumar, Patel, Punna, Dixit, Gupta, Jatav, Yadav, and Vishwakarma