Given name & surname · also Tamil
Hariharan
Hariharan is a surname from Tamil, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hariharan comes from Tamil, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hariharan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 37
- 37 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 7 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 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 451 as a first name in 2020; 994 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.
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