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