Entry № 4063 · Sanskrit origin

Hari Hari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vishnu / Krishna"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vishnu / krishna".

Hari is from the Sanskrit Harī.

Vishnu / Krishna — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हरी
Transliteration
Harī
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hari stands.

Hari does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Haris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hare Krishna Mahamantra / Harivamsha Purana / Haridwar
Sanskrit Vishnu-related tawny-golden + Hari Vishnu-Krishna epithet Vishnu Sahasranama + Hare Krishna Mahamantra sixteen-word chant Kali Santarana Upanishad + Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Gaudiya Vaishnavism Nama-Sankirtan + Hari Om + Harivamsha Purana ~4th c. BCE Krishna genealogy + Haridwar Ganga
Hindu Vaishnava

Names connected to Hari.

The number behind Hari.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hari reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.