Harish
Harish means Meanings families give: Lord Shiva or Vishnu, the supreme divine being; Lord Vishnu, destroyer of sorrow; Lord Vishnu, lion.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Kannada / Sanskrit-Telugu |
| Language | Hindi / Kannada / Telugu |
| Starts with | H |
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.
- Rashi: Simha
- Nakshatra: Purva Phalguni
- More names starting with H
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Lord Shiva or Vishnu, the supreme divine being; Lord Vishnu, destroyer of sorrow; Lord Vishnu, lion”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Ashok — Meanings families give: Without grief, one who causes no sorrow to others; Without grief, happy; Without grief, great emperor
- Harini — Meanings families give: Doe, deer, one who takes away sorrow; Deer, graceful one
- Ashika — One without sorrow, joyful heart
- Ashokan — Meanings families give: Without sorrow; joyful and free from grief; Without grief, Emperor Ashoka
- Arhan — Destroyer of enemies, God
- Shiva — Auspicious, the destroyer
More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Kannada / Sanskrit-Telugu origin
Other names under Simha rashi
- Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
- Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
- Surya — the wife of the god
- Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
- Harshil — Joyful, happy
- Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Simha names.
Where this comes from
Harish 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.