Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bharat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 178
- 178 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,298 as a first name in 2020; 323 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bharat’s family of names
Bharat has a feminine form in Bharati. In Hindi usage, Bharat is a transliteration of भरत.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bharat
- Bharat BhushanIndian actor1920–1992
- Bharat ChettriIndian field hockey player politicial and the current mla of kalimpong district westbengalborn 1981
- Bharat NalluriBritish film directorborn 1965
- Bharat RatraIndian university teacherborn 1960
- Bharat JangamNepalese writerborn 1947
- Mathukumilli BharatIndian educationist and politician
- Bharat Kaulactor
- Bharat PatankarIndian politician, Social Activistborn 1949
- Bharat GuptIndian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst and newspaper columnistborn 1946
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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