What does the name Hariharan mean?

Hariharan means "Shiva and Vishnu combined". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Hariharan

Hariharan means Shiva and Vishnu combined.

Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	H

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Shiva and Vishnu combined”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Sanjukta — Meanings families give: United, joined together in divine harmony; United, combined, together; United, connected; bound together; United, connected; Odia Odissi dancer Sanjukta Panigrahi
Lovepreet — Love and devotion combined, affectionate beloved
Harikrishna — Vishnu and Krishna combined
Sai Krishna — Sai and Krishna combined blessing
Lavpreet — Love and devotion combined, affectionate heart
Harihar — Combined form of Vishnu and Shiva

More boys' names of Tamil origin

Kavi — Poet
Tharun — Young, tender
Aadhi — Beginning, the first
Iniyan — Sweet person
Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
Vetri — Victory

Where this comes from

Hariharan has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.