Tibetan Submitted Names

Baimadajie m Tibetan (Sinicized)
Sinicized version of Pema Dhargyal.

Balbar དཔལ་འབར་ m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan word དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and འབར་ ('bar) meaning "to burn, blaze".

Balgarma དཔལདཀརམ f Tibetan
From the Tibetan དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck", དཀར (dkar) meaning "white", "bright, light" or "pure" and མ (ma) meaning "mother".

Baljin དཔལ་སྦྱིན m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and སྦྱིན (sbyin) meaning "alms, donation".

Basang བསང f & m Tibetan
Means "smoke offering, purification" in Tibetan.

Bhutila f Tibetan
Meaning "Mother of 10,000 children" in Tibetan.

Bini f Tibetan

Bola བོ་ལ་ f Arabic, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Tibetan
Short form of Bolata.

Brugmo འབྲུགམོ f Tibetan
From the Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug) meaning "dragon, thunder" and མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".

Bzhichog བཞིཆོག f Tibetan
Means "four is enough" in Tibetan, perhaps expressing a wish for no more children.

Chegu ཆེ་རྒུ m & f Tibetan
Means "magnitude, grandeur" in Tibetan.

Chenmo ཆེན་མོ f Tibetan
Means "big" in Tibetan.

Chewang ཚེ་དབང་ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Tsewang.

Choden ཆོས་ལྡན f & m Bhutanese, Tibetan
Derived from Tibetan ཆོས་ལྡན (chos-ldan) meaning "devout, religious".

Chodron ཆོས་སྒྲོན m & f Tibetan
Means "light of Dharma" in Tibetan.

Choezom m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Chogori m Balti, Pakistani, Tibetan
Chogori means "big peak" or "big mountain" in Balti Language from Gilgit-Baltistan. Another meaning is "aiming for the top". In Tibetan the name has the same meanings.

Choimpel ཆོསའཕེལ m & f Tibetan
From the Tibetan ཆོས (chos) meaning "phenomenon, religion, reality, doctrine, dharma" and འཕེལ ('phel) meaning "increase".

Chokey m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Chöpel ཆོས་འཕེལ m & f Tibetan
Means "the development of Dharma" in Tibetan.

Chophel ཆོས་འཕེལ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (chos 'phel) meaning "flourishing dharma" or "spread of dharma".

Dalai m Tibetan

Dampa དམ་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "true" in Tibetan.

Dargye དར་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan
Means "progress" in Tibetan.

Dhakpa m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Dhondup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (don 'grub) meaning "one who has accomplished a goal", derived from དོན (don) meaning "object, purpose, goal" and གྲུབ ('grub) meaning "accomplish, achieve, fufill"... [more]

Dichen f Tibetan

Dkarchung m & f Tibetan
Means "little white one" in Tibetian.

Dolma སྒྲོལ་མ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "mother of liberation" or "goddess of liberation", from Tibetan སྒྲོལ (sgrol) meaning "liberate, free, release" and མ (ma) meaning "mother, goddess" (metaphorically referring to enlightenment)... [more]

Döndrub དོན་གྲུབ m Tibetan
Means "one who achieves his aspirations" in Tibetan.

Dorje རྡོ་རྗེ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Dorji. This is the Tibetan name for the vajra, a Buddhist ritual weapon.

Dorjee རྡོ་རྗེ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Dorji.

Dragpa གྲགས་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "reputed" in Tibetan.

Drokmi འབྲོག m & f Tibetan
Means "nomad" in Tibetan.

Drölkar སྒྲོལ་དཀར་ f Tibetan

Dronma སྒྲོན་མ f Tibetan
Means "light, lamp", also an honorific title.

Gawa དགའ་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "happy" in Tibetan.

Gephel དགེ་འཕེལ m & f Tibetan
Means "one who promotes virtue" in Tibetan.

Gonpo མགོན་པོ m Tibetan
Means "protector" in Tibetan.

Gyaltsen རྒྱལ་མཚན m & f Tibetan
Means "mark of victory" in Tibetan, derived from རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "to be victorious, to win" combined with མཚན (mtshan) meaning "mark, sign".

Gyalwa རྒྱལ་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "victorious" in Tibetan.

Jampa བྱམས་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བྱམས་པ (byams pa) meaning "kindness, benevolence".

Jamphel འཇམ་དཔལ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ ('jam dpal) meaning "gentle splendour", derived from འཇམ ('jam) meaning "soft" and དཔལ (dpal) "splendour, glory, magnificence".

Jetsun རྗེ་བཙུན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "venerable, exalted, reverend" in Tibetan.

Jetsunma རྗེ་བཙུན་མ f Tibetan
Means "precious mistress (feminine form of master)" in Tibetan.

Jigmay m Bhutanese, Tibetan
Variant of Jigme.

Jigme འཇིགས་མེད m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
From Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད ('jigs-med) meaning "fearless, not afraid". A notable bearer is Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980-), the current King of Bhutan.

Joti ཇོ་ཏི་ f & m Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Tibetan
Variant of Jyoti.

Jungney འབྱུང་གནས m & f Tibetan
Means "origin, source" in Tibetan.

Jyotis f & m Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Nepali, Gujarati, Odia, Tibetan, Bhutanese, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit ज्योतिस् (jyotis) meaning "light". This is a transcription of both the feminine form ज्योती and the masculine form ज्योति.

Karpo དཀར་པོ m & f Tibetan
Means "white, pure" in Tibetan.

Kelden m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Kelsang བཀལ་བཟང f & m Tibetan
Means "good fortune, auspicious" in Tibetan.

Khandro མཁའ་འགྲོ f Tibetan
Means "celestial dancer" in Tibetan.

Khyenpa མཁྱེན་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "one who knows" in Tibetan.

Khyentse མཁྱེན་བརྩེ m & f Tibetan
Means "wisdom" in Tibetan.

Kinley ཀུན་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "goodness, joy" in Tibetan.

Kunga m Tibetan

Kunley ཀུན་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས (see Kinley).

Legpa ལེགས་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "praiseworthy, useful" or "Mercury" in Tibetan.

Lhakpa ལྷག་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "Mercury (the planet)" or "Wednesday" in Tibetan.

Lharje ལྷ་རྗེ m Tibetan
Means "divine master" in Tibetan.

Lhawang ལྷ་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Sherpa
From Tibetan ལྷ་དབང (lha dbang) meaning "Deity empowerment" or "King of Gods".This is a Tibetan name for the Hindu God of thunder and king or Gods Indra.

Lhundrup ལྷུན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
Means "spontaneous presence" in Tibetan.

Lobsang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་བཟང (blo bzang) meaning "noble-minded, intelligent, learned", from བློ (blo) meaning "mind, intellect" and བཟང (bzang) meaning "righteous, good".

Lobzang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Lobsang.

Loden བློ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
Means "intelligent" in Tibetan.

Lodrö བློ་གྲོས m Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་གྲོས (blo gros) meaning "wisdom, understanding, intellect".

Losang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Lobsang.

Lungtog ལུང་རྟོགས m & f Tibetan
Means "prophecy" in Tibetan.

Lungtok ལུང་རྟོགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "learning, experience, realisation" in Tibetan. This was one of the given names of the 9th Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso (1805-1815).

Mchogmdzes མཆོགམཛེས f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan མཆོག (mchog) meaning "supreme" and མཛེས (mdzes) meaning "beautiful".

Metog མེ་ཏོག f Tibetan
Means "flower" in Tibetan.

Metok མེ་ཏོག་ f Tibetan
Means "flower" in Tibetan.

Migmar མིག་དམར m & f Tibetan
Means "Mars (planet)" or "Tuesday" in Tibetan, ultimately from མིག (mig) meaning "eye" and‎ དམར (dmar) meaning "red".

Mikyo མི་བསྐྱོད m & f Tibetan
Means "unshakeable" in Tibetan.

Milarepa m Tibetan

Mipam m Tibetan
Variant of Mipham.

Mipham མི་ཕམ m & f Tibetan
Means "unconquered, invincible", from Tibetan མི (mi) meaning "not" and ཕམ (pham) meaning "defeated, subdued".

Namgyal རྣམ་རྒྱལ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "victorious" or "complete victory", derived from Tibetan རྣམ (rnam) meaning "aspect, type, kind" combined with རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "to be victorious, to conquer".

Namgyel རྣམ་རྒྱལ m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Variant transcription of Namgyal.

Namkha ནམ་མཁ m & f Tibetan
Means "space, opening" in Tibetan.

Namlang ནམ་ལངས m & f Tibetan
Means "dawn" in Tibetan.

Nangwa སྣང་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "appearance, evidence" in Tibetan.

Nawang ངག་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Ngawang.

Ngodup m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Nidup དངོས་གྲུབ། m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "feat, accomplishment, success" in Tibetan, the equivalent of Sanskrit सिद्धि (siddhi).

Nudan ནུས་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
Means "powerful, efficient" in Tibetan.

Nyima ཉི་མ m & f Tibetan
Means "sun, day" in Tibetan.

Nyingpo སྙིང་པོ m & f Tibetan
Means "heart" in Tibetan.

Nyinje ཉིན་བྱེད m & f Tibetan
Means "compassion" in Tibetan.

Orgyen ཨོ་རྒྱན m & f Tibetan (Rare), Bhutanese (Rare)
Variant transcription of Ugyen.

Osel འོད་གསལ m & f Tibetan
Means "bright light" in Tibetan.

Palchen དཔལ་ཆེན m & f Tibetan
Means "most glorious" in Tibetan.

Palden དཔལ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དཔལ་ལྡན (dpal ldan) meaning "glorious, illustrious, splendous".

Paldon m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Palmo དཔལ་མོ f Tibetan
Means "highly praised, most glorious" in Tibetan.

Palsang དཔལ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Means "glorious" in Tibetan.

Pasang པ་སངས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "Venus (the planet)" or "Friday" in Tibetan.

Pemba སྤེན་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "Saturn (the planet)" in Tibetan.

Pemma f & m Tibetan
Comes from Pema (and Padma), Tibetan for Lotus. Lotus is a sacred flower in Buddhism (as well as Hinduism), a symbol for the way to enlightenment.

Phuntsog ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Tibetan
Variant transcription of Phuntsok.

Phurba ཕུར་བ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Phurbu.

Phurbu ཕུར་བུ m & f Tibetan
Means "Jupiter (the planet)" or "Thursday" in Tibetan. This is also the word for a religious or ritual dagger (called the Kīla in Sanskrit) in Buddhism.

Rabten རབ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan
Means "indefatigable" in Tibetan.

Raldri རལ་གྲི། m Tibetan
Means "sword" in Tibetan.

Rangdol m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Rangdrol རང་གྲོལ m & f Tibetan
Means "freedom" in Tibetan.

Rgyasbyin རྒྱསྦྱིན m Tibetan
Means "vast, immense donation or charity"

Rigzin རིག་འཛིན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "intelligent, wise, knowledgeable" in Tibetan.

Rinchen རིན་ཆེན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "treasure, jewel, gem" in Tibetan.

Rinchin རིན་ཆེན m & f Tibetan, Buryat, Mongolian
Tibetan alternate transcription of Rinchen as well as the Buryat and Mongolian form. In Buryatia it is solely used as a masculine name.

Samten བསམ་གཏན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསམ་གཏན (bsam gtan) meaning "meditation, concentration".

Sangay སེང་གེ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Derived from Tibetan སེང་གེ (seng ge) meaning "lion".

Sanggyai སངས་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (see Sangye).

Sangye སངས་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "Buddha" in Tibetan, from སངས (sangs) meaning "purified, cleansed" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extended, fully grown".

Sangyemo སངས་རྒྱས་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Combination of Sangye and Tibetan མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".

Sarjung གསར་བྱུང m & f Tibetan
Means "new" in Tibetan.

Senge m Tibetan
Means "lion" in Tibetan.

Shenpen གཞན་ཕན m & f Tibetan
Means "altruism" in Tibetan.

Shenyen བཤེས་གཉེན m & f Tibetan
Means "spiritual companion" in Tibetan.

Sherab ཤེས་རབ་ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "wisdom, understanding" in Tibetan.

Shigara m Pakistani, Urdu, Balti, Tibetan
From the word Shigar, which means "Rock" in Balti and Tibetan.

Shonnu གཞོན་ནུ m & f Tibetan
Means "young" in Tibetan.

Singye སེང་གེ m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Means "lion" in Tibetan.

Smindrug སྨིནདྲུག་ m & f Tibetan
Allegedly means "the Pleiades" in Tibetan.

Tarchin མཐར་ཕྱིན m & f Tibetan
Means "completion" in Tibetian.

Tenpa བསྟན་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསྟན་པ (bstan pa) meaning "(Buddhist) doctrine".

Tenzee f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Tenzin

Thaye མཐའ་ཡས m & f Tibetan
Means "limitless, infinite" in Tibetan.

Thinlay ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "action, karma" or "enlightened activity, spiritual activity, ritual" in Tibetan.

Thinley ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Variant transcription of Thinlay.

Tobden སྟོབས་ལྡན m Tibetan
Means "very powerful" in Tibetan.

Tobgay སྟོབས་རྒྱས m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "mighty" in Tibetan, from སྟོབས (stobs) meaning "strength, force, vigour" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extended, spread".

Tobgye སྟོབས་རྒྱས m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tobgay.

Trashi བཀྲ་ཤིས་ m & f Tibetan

Tsangchung ཆུངཆུང m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan ཆུང (tsang) meaning "complete, entire" and ཆུང (chung) meaning "little".

Tselha ཚེ་ལྷ f & m Tibetan
Tselha is a unisex name of Tibetan origin. It's comprised of ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and ལྷ (lha) meaning "god/dess."

Tsemo རྩེ་མོ m & f Tibetan
Means "peak" in Tibetan.

Tsepak m & f Tibetan
From 'ཚེ' (tshe), meaning "life".

Tseten ཚེ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan
Means "unchanging life" in Tibetian.

Tsewang ཚེ་དབང m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (tshe dbang) meaning "powerful life", derived from ཚེ (tshe) "life" and དབང (dbang) "power, control".

Tseyang ཚེ་དབྱངས་ f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚེ (tshe) "life" and either དབྱངས (dbyangs) "song, voice" or གཡང (gyang) "happiness, blessing, prosperity".

Tsondru བརྩོན་འགྲུས m & f Tibetan
Means "perservering" in Tibetian.

Tsultrim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམ (tshul khrim) meaning "way, method, manner".

Ugyen ཨོ་རྒྱན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Derived from ཨོ་རྒྱན (o rgyan), the Tibetan name for the medieval Indian state of Oddiyana, which was significant due to its role in the development of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Wangdi དབང་འདུས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་འདུས (dbang 'dus) meaning "to bring under control, to conquer", itself derived from དབང (dbang) meaning "power, control, force" and འདུས ('dus) meaning "collect, assemble".

Wangdu དབང་འདུས m Tibetan
Variant transcription of Wangdi.

Wangdue m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Wangmo དབང་མོ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་མོ (dbang mo) meaning "queen, lady", derived from དབང (dbang) meaning "power, control, force" and མོ (mo) meaning "female".

Wangpo དབང་པོ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་པོ (dbang po) meaning "power, sense", from དབང (dbang) meaning "power, control, force" and the nominalisation suffix -པོ (-po).

Yabshi f Tibetan

Yangchen དབྱངས་ཅན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབྱངས་ཅན (dbyangs can) meaning "singer" or "vowel, song". This is the Tibetan name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati.

Yangchenmo དབྱངས་ཅན་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Combination of Yangchen and Tibetan མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".

Yeshe ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (ye shes) meaning "wisdom, awareness, knowledge".

Yeshey ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Yeshe.

Yontan ཡོན་ཏན m Tibetan
Means "knowledge" in Tibetan.

Yonten ཡོན་ཏན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན (yon tan) meaning "knowledge" or "virtue, good quality".

Zerdan ཟེར་ལྡན m Tibetan
Munpa Zerdan- ... [more]