Hariharan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hariharan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Tamil அரிஅரன் (ari’araṉ), from Sanskrit हरिहर (harihara). This surname is predominantly found in Tamil Nadu.
- USUnited States1 in 738K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 35K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Tamilஅரிஅரன்ari’araṉ(measured from records)
- Sanskritहरिहरharihara(measured from records)
Borrowed from Tamil அரிஅரன் (ari’araṉ), from Sanskrit हरिहर (harihara). This surname is predominantly found in Tamil Nadu.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hariharan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 268 | Hariharan | 20 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hariharan | 17 |
| US United States | 451 | 1 in 738K | 994 | Hariharan | 197 |
| AO Angola | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Hariharan | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 662K | — | Hariharan | 53 |
| SG Singapore | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Hariharan | 19 |
| AU Australia | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Hariharan | 61 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hariharan Amsakarunanb. 2003INbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 994 | #25,932 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 593 | #37,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 246 | #73,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hariharan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Tamil அரிஅரன் (ari’araṉ), from Sanskrit हरिहर (harihara). This surname is predominantly found in Tamil Nadu. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Hariharan a male or female name?
- Hariharan 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.
- In which country does Hariharan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 927 people named Hariharan in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hariharan.
- How common is the name Hariharan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 451 people named Hariharan in 2020, about 1 in 738 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hariharanThe 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, “Hariharan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.