Harish
A name most Poles have never come across: only 71 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years. It comes from a tradition where the word names a lord, an epithet for a supreme deity.
Harish Pronunciation
What Harish means
Where Harish comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Harish comes from Sanskrit, and it joins two words. Hari is a name of Vishnu, and Isha means lord, a title given to Shiva. Put them together and the name holds both gods at once. That is why speakers gloss it as lord Vishnu and lord Shiva, or in Polish, pan wszystkich, władca.
The origin is filed simply as other, outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most of a Polish register.
For the families who carry it, the double meaning does real work. Vishnu preserves the world, and Shiva changes it. A boy named Harish stands under both. The name has stayed common across India for generations, borne by scholars and cricketers and clerks.
On a Polish class register, Harish would sit between Hubert and Igor. The Catholic calendar gives it no imieniny. Its meaning stays with the Sanskrit: pan wszystkich, władca.
How many people are named Harish
1 in 300651 men in Poland is named Harish. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4270 among male names.
Harish as a middle name
Harish is a first name for 71 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2509th, between Haque (14) and Heikki (14).
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#2507 Hagen14
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#2508 Haque14
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#2509 Harish14
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#2510 Heikki14
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#2511 Hersz14