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The baby name Harekrishna is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced HAH-ray KRISH-nuh.

Harekrishna is Sanskrit in Origin.

Gender: Male
Syllables: 4.0
Origin: Sanskrit
Pronunciation: HAH-ray KRISH-nuh

What is the meaning of the name Harekrishna ?

The baby name Harekrishna is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced HAH-ray KRISH-nuh.

Harekrishna is Sanskrit in Origin.

Harekrishna is a theophoric Indian masculine name from Sanskrit: hare, the vocative of Hari/Harā (Vishnu or his energy, Radha), plus kṛṣṇa (“dark; Krishna”). As a compound drawn from the famous Hare Krishna mantra, it functions as an invocation, “O Krishna, O Hari,” and as a given name expresses bhakti (devotional) affiliation to Vaishnavism, often glossed “one devoted to Krishna” or “he who chants the names of the Lord.”

Documented across eastern Indo-Aryan languages since at least the 19th-20th centuries, it is common among Bengali, Odia, and Assamese Hindu Vaishnavas and later gained global visibility through ISKCON (the Hare Krishna movement). Variants include Hare Krishna (two words), Hare Kṛṣṇa/Harekṛṣṇa (with diacritics), Hare Krsna (ASCII), Harekrushna (Odia/Gujarati), and the closely related Harikrishna/Harikṛṣṇa.

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Harekrishna – Popularity by country

Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.

Country Gender Year Rank Born of
QA Girls 0 #342 2 15,378
BD Girls 0 #406 1 8,413
KW Girls 0 #561 1 19,177
AE Girls 0 #597 1 20,968
BD Boys 0 #603 3 10,045
IN Girls 0 #649 6 13,121
QA Boys 0 #698 10 18,093
KW Boys 0 #805 2 18,755
OM Boys 0 #913 6 17,948
IN Boys 0 #929 73 16,750
NG Boys 0 #1,001 1 16,906
AE Boys 0 #1,072 21 22,615
MY Boys 0 #1,180 3 25,439
SA Boys 0 #1,597 18 28,008

Harekrishna is popular in 9 countries — most recent births per country:

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People also ask about Harekrishna

Harekrishna is predominantly a boy's name, used for boys.
Harekrishna is a 4 syllable name, pronounced HAH-ray KRISH-nuh.
Common nicknames and spelling variations include Hare Krishna, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Krsna, Harekrsna, Hare-Krishna and Hari Krishna.
Harekrishna is a name of Sanskrit origin, traditionally used in India. It doesn't appear in the major international birth registries we track, but it is an established name within India and its diaspora communities.