Bhutanese Names

Bhutanese names are used in the country of Bhutan in southern Asia.

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Dawa ཟླཝ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "moon, month" in Tibetan.

Dechen བདེ་ཆེན f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "great happiness" in Tibetan.

Dorji རྡོ་རྗེ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "diamond" in Tibetan.

Jamyang འཇམ་དབྱངས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "gentle song" in Tibetan, from འཇམ ('jam) meaning "gentle, soft" and དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "song, voice".

Karma ཀརྨ m & f Bhutanese
From the Sanskrit word कर्म (karma) meaning "action, deed, fate".

Kunzang ཀུན་བཟང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "all good, ever excellent" in Tibetan.

Lhamo ལྷ་མོ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "goddess" in Tibetan.

Ngawang ངག་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "powerful speech" in Tibetan, from ངག (ngag) meaning "speech" and དབང (dbang) meaning "power, force".

Norbu ནོར་བུ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "jewel" in Tibetan.

Passang པ་བཟང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "good, excellent" in Tibetan.

Pema པད་མ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Tibetan form of Padma.

Phuntso ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Phuntsok.

Sonam བསོད་ནམས f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese, Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Means "virtuous, good karma, fortunate" in Tibetan.

Tashi བཀྲ་ཤིས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "good fortune" in Tibetan.

Tenzin བསྟན་འཛིན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan-'dzin) meaning "upholder of teachings". This is one of the given names of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935-).

Tshering ཚེ་རིང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "long life" in Tibetan, from ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and རིང (ring) meaning "long".

Wangchuk དབང་ཕྱུག m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "mighty" in Tibetan, from དབང (dbang) meaning "power" and ཕྱུག (phyug) meaning "wealthy, possessing". This is the Tibetan name for the god Shiva.

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