Hari Family History

Hungarian (also Hári): habitational name for someone from a place called Hár or Haró. Compare Hary. Swiss German: probably a variant of Harig.

Slovenian: probably from a short form of the personal name Zaharija (see Zacharias). Indian (southern states): from a personal name based on Sanskrit hari ‘destroyer’ i.e. one who takes away evil an epithet of the god Vishnu.

— Note: Since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.