Saharanpur city's name was given after the Saint Shah Haroon Chishti.A very famous temple of "Shakumbhri Devi" is situated in Saharanpur. Lakhs of pilgrims visits the temple during navratras. Some peoples says that it was founded by Sah Ranbir singh, a Katheriya Rajput nobleman,[2] who laid the foundations of the present-day city on the site of an army cantonment.

According to the 2011 Indian census, Saharanpur had a population of 705,478, 12.5% of whom were under the age of six, living in 140000 households within the municipal corporation limits.