Tibetan Submitted Names

This is a list of submitted names in which the language is Tibetan.
gender
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Baimadajie m Tibetan (Sinicized)
Sinicized version of Pema Dhargyal.
Balbar m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan word དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and འབར་ ('bar) meaning "to burn, blaze".
Baljin m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and སྦྱིན (sbyin) meaning "alms, donation".
Bhuchung m Tibetan
From Tibetan བུ་ཆུང (bu-chung) meaning "small child, little boy".
Bhutila f Tibetan
Meaning "Mother of 10,000 children" in Tibetan.
Bola f Arabic, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Tibetan
Short form of Bolata.
Brugmo f Tibetan
From the Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug) meaning "dragon, thunder" and མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".
Buchung m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བུ་ཆུང (see Bhuchung).
Changchub f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).
Changchup f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).
Chegu m & f Tibetan
Means "magnitude, grandeur" in Tibetan.
Chenmo f Tibetan
Means "big" in Tibetan.
Chewang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).
Choden f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་ལྡན (chos-ldan) meaning "devout, righteous, pious".
Chodon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chodron).
Chodron f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "kindler of the Dharma" from Tibetan ཆོས (chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and སྒྲོན (sgron) meaning "to light, to kindle".
Choedon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chodron).
Choegyal m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (see Chogyal).
Choekyi m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་ཀྱི (see Chokyi).
Choenyi m & f Tibetan
Means "sphere of reality, nature of all phenomena, totality of existence" in Tibetan, used as a translation of Sanskrit धर्मधातु (dharmadhātu).
Choephel m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (see Chophel).
Choezom f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཆོས་འཛོམས (chos-dzoms) meaning "plentiful dharma", derived from ཆོས (chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and འཛོམས (dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Chogden m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཆོག་ལྡན (see Chokden).
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.
Chogyal m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos-rgyal) meaning "king of Dharma", derived from ཆོས (chos) meaning "teachings, doctrine, Dharma" and རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "king".
Choimpel m & f Tibetan
From the Tibetan ཆོས (chos) meaning "phenomenon, religion, reality, doctrine, dharma" and འཕེལ ('phel) meaning "increase".
Chokden m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan མཆོག་ལྡན (mchog-ldan) meaning "possessor of excellence", from མཆོག (mchog) meaning "excellent, foremost, superior" and ལྡན (ldan) meaning "to possess".
Chokey m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྐྱིད (see Choki).
Choki m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་སྐྱིད (chos-skyid) meaning "happy dharma practice", from ཆོས (chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "happiness, delight".
Chokyi m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཆོས་ཀྱི (chos-kyi) meaning "religious, pious, virtuous".
Chopel m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (see Chophel).
Chophel m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (chos-phel) meaning "the spread of the Dharma", derived from ཆོས (chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and འཕེལ (phel) meaning "to increase, to develop, to expand".
Chozom f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་འཛོམས (see Choezom).
Chungda m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆུང་བདག (see Chungdak).
Chungdak m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཆུང་བདག (chung-bdag) meaning "little one". This name was traditionally given to a child whose parents did not want any more children.
Dakpa m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan གྲགས་པ (grags-pa) meaning "renown, fame, honour".
Damcho m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (dam-chos) meaning "noble doctrine, sacred teachings".
Damchoe m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (see Damcho).
Damdrin m Tibetan
Tibetan name for Hayagriva, derived from རྟ (rta) meaning "horse" and མགྲིན (mgrin) meaning "neck, throat; voice".
Dampa m & f Tibetan
Means "true" in Tibetan.
Dargye m & f Tibetan
Means "progress" in Tibetan.
Dasel m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཟླ (zla) meaning "moon, month" and གསལ (gsal) meaning "clear, bright, brilliant".
Delek m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བདེ་ལེགས (bde-legs) meaning "bliss, happiness" or "good luck, auspiciousness".
Dhendup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).
Dhondup 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]
Dhundup m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).
Dicki f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བདེ་སྐྱིད (see Diki).
Dickyi f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བདེ་སྐྱིད (see Diki).
Diki f Tibetan
From Tibetan བདེ་སྐྱིད (bde-skyid) meaning "happiness".
Dkarchung m & f Tibetan
Means "little white one" in Tibetian.
Dolkar f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism
From Tibetan སྒྲོལ་དཀར (sgrol-dkar) derived from སྒྲོལ (sgrol) meaning "to liberate, to save" (referring to the bodhisattva Tara 2) and དཀར (dkar) meaning "white"... [more]
Dolma f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism
From Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ (sgrol-ma) meaning "saviouress" (referring to enlightenment), derived from སྒྲོལ (sgrol) meaning "to liberate, to save" and the feminine particle མ (ma)... [more]
Döndrub m Tibetan
Means "one who achieves his aspirations" in Tibetan.
Dondup m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).
Dorje m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (see Dorji).
Dorjee m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (see Dorji).
Dragpa m & f Tibetan
Means "reputed" in Tibetan.
Drokmi m & f Tibetan
Means "nomad" in Tibetan.
Drolma f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ (see Dolma).
Dronma f Tibetan
Means "light, lamp", also an honorific title.
Dukpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan འབྲུག་པ ('brug-pa) meaning "Bhutanese (person)", also referring to a school of Tibetan Buddhism (the Drukpa Kagyu).
Dundup m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).
Gawa m & f Tibetan
Means "joy, love" or "to be happy, glad" in Tibetan.
Gedun m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དགེ་འདུན (see Gendün).
Gendün m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan དགེ་འདུན (dge-'dun) meaning "sangha", referring to the Buddhist community.
Gephel m & f Tibetan
Means "one who promotes virtue" in Tibetan.
Gonpo m Tibetan
Means "protector, guardian, benefactor" in Tibetan.
Gyalpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal-po) meaning "king".
Gyaltsen m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan རྒྱལ་མཚན (rgyal-mtshan) meaning "banner of victory", derived from རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "to win, to become victorious" and མཚན (mtshan) meaning "mark, sign".
Gyaltshen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱལ་མཚན (see Gyaltsen).
Gyalwa m & f Tibetan
Means "victorious" in Tibetan.
Gyamtso m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱ་མཚོ (see Gyatso).
Gyatsho m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱ་མཚོ (see Gyatso).
Gyurme m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan གྱུར་མེད (gyur-med) meaning "stable, unchanging", from གྱུར (gyur) meaning "to change, to transform" and མེད (med) meaning "not, without".
Gyurmey m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གྱུར་མེད (see Gyurme).
Jampa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism
From Tibetan བྱམས་པ (byams-pa) meaning "kindness, benevolence". This is the Tibetan name for the bodhisattva Maitreya.
Jampel m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ (see Jamphel).
Jamphel m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism
From Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ ('jam-dpal) meaning "gentle splendour", derived from འཇམ ('jam) meaning "soft" and དཔལ (dpal) meaning "splendour, glory, magnificence"... [more]
Jangchub f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (byang-chub) meaning "enlightenment, awakening".
Jangchup f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).
Jetsun f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "venerable, exalted, reverend" in Tibetan.
Jetsunma f Tibetan
Means "precious mistress (feminine form of master)" in Tibetan.
Jigmay m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད (see Jigme).
Jigme m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད ('jigs-med) meaning "fearless, brave".
Jigmey m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད (see Jigme).
Jinpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྦྱིན་པ (sbyin-pa) meaning "giving, generosity, donation".
Joti f & m Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Tibetan
Variant of Jyoti.
Jungne m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan འབྱུང་གནས (byung-gnas) meaning "source, origin".
Jungney m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འབྱུང་གནས (see Jungne).
Kalden m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན (skal-ldan) meaning "auspicious, fortunate, blessed".
Kalsang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelzang).
Kalzang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelzang).
Karpo m & f Tibetan
Means "white, pure" in Tibetan.
Kelden m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན (see Kalden).
Kelsang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelzang).
Kelzang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (bkal-bzang) meaning "good luck, good destiny", derived from བཀལ (bkal) meaning "trust, lean on" and བཟང (bzang) meaning "goodness, benefit".
Kesang f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྐལ་བཟང (skal-bzang) meaning "good fortune, good luck, auspicious age".
Khando f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "dakini" in Tibetan, referring to a class of female celestial beings that represent enlightened energy and spiritual practice in Buddhist belief. The word itself literally means "sky-goer" (in the sense of one who moves through the vast, sky-like expanse of wisdom), from Tibetan མཁའ (mkha) meaning "sky, space" and འགྲོ (gro) meaning "walk, move, go".
Khandro f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཁའ་འགྲོ (see Khando).
Khedrup m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan མཁས་གྲུབ (mkhas-grub) meaning "learned, scholar, accomplished".
Khedup m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཁས་གྲུབ (see Khedrup).
Khyenpa m & f Tibetan
Means "one who knows" in Tibetan.
Khyentse m & f Tibetan
Means "wisdom" in Tibetan.
Kinley m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས (see Kunley).
Konchog m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (see Konchok).
Konchok m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
From Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (dkon-mchog) meaning "rare jewel, excellent jewel", referring to the Three Jewels of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha).
Kunchok m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (see Konchok).
Kunga m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཀུན་དགའ (kun-dga') meaning "rejoicing, joyous", used as a Tibetan translation of the name Ananda.
Kunley m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས (kun-legs) meaning "all goodness", derived from ཀུན (kun) meaning "all, every" and ལེགས (legs) meaning "good, well, proper".
Kunsang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་བཟང (see Kunzang).
Kyab m Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐྱབས (skyabs) meaning "refuge, protection".
Kyi f Tibetan
Means "comfort, happiness" in Tibetan.
Kyizom f Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐྱིད་འཛོམས (skyid-dzoms) meaning "plentiful happiness", derived from སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "happiness, delight" and འཛོམས (dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Lakpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷག་པ (see Lhakpa).
Lamo f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷ་མོ (see Lhamo).
Legpa m & f Tibetan
Means "praiseworthy, useful" or "Mercury" in Tibetan.
Lhadon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལྷ་སྒྲོན (lha-sgron) meaning "adorner of the gods", derived from ལྷ (lha) meaning "god, deity" and སྒྲོན (sgron) meaning "to decorate, to adorn, to light, to kindle".
Lhakpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལྷག་པ (lhag-pa) meaning "Mercury (the planet)" or "Wednesday".
Lhakyi f Tibetan
From Tibetan ལྷ (lha) meaning "god, deity" and སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "happiness, delight".
Lharje m Tibetan
Means "divine master" in Tibetan.
Lhawang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལྷ་དབང (lha-dbang) meaning "power of the gods", derived from ལྷ (lha) meaning "god, deity" and དབང (dbang) meaning "power".
Lhendup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷུན་གྲུབ (see Lhundup).
Lhundup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལྷུན་གྲུབ (lhun-grub) meaning "spontaneous presence, that which is automatic, effortless".
Lobsang m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་བཟང (blo-bzang) meaning "noble-minded, intelligent, learned".
Lobzang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).
Loden m & f Tibetan
Means "intelligent" in Tibetan.
Lodro m Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་གྲོས (blo-gros) meaning "wisdom, understanding, intellect".
Lopsang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).
Losang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).
Lungten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལུང་བསྟན (lung-bstan) meaning "prophecy, revelation".
Lungtog m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལུང་རྟོགས (see Lungtok).
Lungtok m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལུང་རྟོགས (lung-rtogs) meaning "learning, realisation, perception".
Mchogmdzes f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan མཆོག (mchog) meaning "supreme" and མཛེས (mdzes) meaning "beautiful".
Metog f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (see Metok).
Metok f Tibetan
From Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me-tog) meaning "flower, blossom".
Migma m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མིག་དམར (see Migmar).
Migmar m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan མིག་དམར (mig-dmar) meaning "Mars (the planet)" or "Tuesday", composed of མིག (mig) meaning "eye" and‎ དམར (dmar) meaning "red".
Mikyo m & f Tibetan
Means "unshakeable" in Tibetan.
Mingma m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མིག་དམར (see Migmar).
Mipam m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མི་ཕམ (see Mipham).
Mipham m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan མི་ཕམ (mi-pham) meaning "unconquered, invincible", a Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit name Ajita. This is an epithet of the bodhisattva Maitreya.
Namgay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (rnam-gyas) meaning "abundant, copious".
Namgey m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (see Namgay).
Namgyal m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱལ (rnam-rgyal) meaning "complete victory", derived from the intensifier རྣམ (rnam) and རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "conquest, victory".
Namgye m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (see Namgay).
Namgyel m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱལ (see Namgyal).
Namkha m & f Tibetan
Means "space, opening" in Tibetan.
Namlang m & f Tibetan
Means "dawn" in Tibetan.
Nangwa m & f Tibetan
Means "appearance, evidence" in Tibetan.
Nawang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ངག་དབང (see Ngawang).
Neten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan གནས་བརྟན (gnas-brtan) meaning "elder, senior monk, sthavira".
Ngodup m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ (dngos-grub) meaning "accomplishment, achievement, realisation, attainment".
Nidup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ (dngos-grub) meaning "realisation, (spiritual) attainment".
Norgay m Tibetan
From Tibetan ནོར་རྒྱས (nor-rgyas) meaning "abundance, plenty, enriching". This is the Tibetan name for the naga king Vasuki.
Norzang m & f Tibetan
Means "prosperous wealth" in Tibetan, from ནོར་བུ (nor bu) meaning "gem, jewel" and བཟང (bzang) meaning "righteous, good".
Norzin f & m Tibetan
Means "holding wealth" from Tibetan ནོར (nor) meaning "wealth, riches" and འཛིན (dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Norzing f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ནོར་འཛིན (see Norzin).
Nudan m & f Tibetan
Means "powerful, efficient" in Tibetan.
Nyima m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi-ma) meaning "sun, day".
Nyingpo m & f Tibetan
Means "heart" in Tibetan.
Nyinje m & f Tibetan
Means "compassion" in Tibetan.
Ogyen m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).
Orgyen m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).
Osel m & f Tibetan
Means "bright light" in Tibetan.
Palchen m Tibetan
From Tibetan དཔལ་ཆེན (dpal-chen) meaning "great glory", derived from དཔལ (dpal) meaning "glory, splendour" and ཆེན (chen) meaning "great, big, large".
Palden m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དཔལ་ལྡན (dpal-ldan) meaning "glorious, illustrious, splendous".
Paldon m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.
Paljor m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དཔལ་འབྱོར (dpal-'byor) meaning "wealth, glory, riches, prosperity".
Palmo f Tibetan, Ladakhi
From Tibetan དཔལ་མོ (dpal-mo) meaning "glorious woman", derived from དཔལ (dpal) meaning "glory, splendour" and the feminine particle མོ (mo). This is the Tibetan name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi.
Palsang m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan དཔལ་བཟང (dpal-bzang) meaning "glorious, excellent".
Pasang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan པ་སངས (pa-sangs) meaning "Venus (the planet)" or "Friday".
Pem f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan པདྨ (pdma) meaning "lotus", ultimately from Sanskrit पद्म (padma).
Pemba m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྤེན་པ (spen-pa) meaning "Saturn (the planet)" or "Saturday".
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.
Pempa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).
Penba m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).
Penpa m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).
Phuntsog m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕུན་ཚོགས (see Phuntsok).
Phurba m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཕུར་བ (phur-ba) referring to a ceremonial three-sided dagger used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals.
Phurbu m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཕུར་བུ (phur-bu) meaning "Jupiter (the planet)" or "Thursday".
Phurpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Phurba.
Puntsok m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕུན་ཚོགས (see Phuntsok).
Rabgay m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan རབ་རྒྱས (rab-rgyas) meaning "very broad, very wide", derived from རབ (rab) meaning "very, extremely" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extensive, broad, wide".
Rabgye m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རབ་རྒྱས (see Rabgay).
Rabten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རབ་བརྟན (rab-brtan) meaning "steady, steadfast".
Raldri m Tibetan
Means "sword" in Tibetan.
Rangdol m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རང་གྲོལ (rang-grol) meaning "self-liberation, self-release".
Rangdrol m & f Tibetan
Means "freedom" in Tibetan.
Rapten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རབ་བརྟན (see Rabten).
Rgyasbyin m Tibetan
Means "vast, immense donation or charity"
Rigdzin m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rigzin).
Rigsang m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་བཟང (see Rigzang).
Rigzang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "wise, intelligent" in Tibetan.
Rigzin m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
From Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (rig-dzin) meaning "holder of knowledge", derived from རིག (rig) meaning "knowledge, awareness" and འཛིན (dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Rigzing m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rinzin).
Rinchen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རིན་ཆེན (rin-chen) meaning "treasure, gem, jewel".
Rinchin 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.
Ringzin m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rigzin).
Ringzing m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rinzin).
Rinzin m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "holder of wealth" from Tibetan རིན (rin) meaning "worth, value, riches" and འཛིན (dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Rinzing m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིན་འཛིན (see Rinzin).
Samdrup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསམ་གྲུབ (see Samdup).
Samdup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསམ་གྲུབ (bsam-grub) meaning "fulfillment (of one's desires or wishes)".
Samphel m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསམ་འཕེལ (bsam-phel) meaning "increasing, becoming, establishing one's desires or wishes", derived from བསམ (bsam) meaning "aspiration, wish, intent" and འཕེལ (phel) meaning "increase, grow, multiply".
Samtan m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསམ་གཏན (see Samten).
Samten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསམ་གཏན (bsam-gtan) meaning "meditative concentration, stable attention, awareness", derived from བསམ (bsam) meaning "thought, thinking" and གཏན (gtan) meaning "constant, perpetual"... [more]
Sangay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སེང་གེ (seng-ge) meaning "lion".
Sangey m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སེང་གེ (see Sangay).
Sanggyai m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (see Sangye).
Sangmo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་མོ (see Zangmo).
Sangpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་པོ (see Zangpo).
Sangyal m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (see Sangye).
Sangye m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (sangs-rgyas) referring to the Buddha, derived from སངས (sangs) meaning "purified, cleansed" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extended, spread".
Sangyemo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Combination of Sangye and Tibetan མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".
Sarjung m & f Tibetan
Means "new" in Tibetan.
Senge m Tibetan
Means "lion" in Tibetan.
Shenpen m & f Tibetan
Means "altruism" in Tibetan.
Shenyen m & f Tibetan
Means "spiritual companion" in Tibetan.
Sherab m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཤེས་རབ (shes-rab) meaning "wisdom, knowledge, insight".
Sherap m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཤེས་རབ (see Sherab).
Shigara m Pakistani, Urdu, Balti, Tibetan
From the word Shigar, which means "Rock" in Balti and Tibetan.
Shonnu m & f Tibetan
Means "young" in Tibetan.
Singay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སེང་གེ (see Sangay).
Smindrug m & f Tibetan
Allegedly means "the Pleiades" in Tibetan.
Tamdin m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).
Tamding m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).
Tamdrin m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).
Tarchin m & f Tibetan
Means "completion" in Tibetian.
Tempa m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསྟན་པ (see Tenpa).
Tenpa m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསྟན་པ (bstan-pa) meaning "teaching, doctrine".
Thaye m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan མཐའ་ཡས (mtha-yas) meaning "limitless, endless, infinite".
Thinlay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (see Thinley).
Thinley m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (phrin-las) meaning "action, act, karma".
Thubten m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཐུབ་བསྟན (see Thupten).
Thupten m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཐུབ་བསྟན (thub-bstan) meaning "teachings of the Buddha, Buddhist doctrine", derived from ཐུབ (thub) referring to the Buddha and བསྟན (bstan) meaning "instruction, teachings".
Tobden m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྟོབས་ལྡན (stobs-ldan) meaning "powerful, strong".
Tobgay m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས (stobs-rgyas) meaning "mighty, extensive power", derived from སྟོབས (stobs) meaning "power, force, strength" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extensive, broad, wide".
Tobgye m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས (see Tobgay).
Topgay m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས (see Tobgay).
Trashi m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀྲ་ཤིས (see Tashi).
Trinley m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (see Thinley).
Tsamchoe f Tibetan
Means "cessation, termination, stop, end (as in stopping evil spirits)" in Tibetan.
Tsangchung m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan ཆུང (tsang) meaning "complete, entire" and ཆུང (chung) meaning "little".
Tselha 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 m & f Tibetan
Means "peak" in Tibetan.
Tsepak m & f Buddhism, Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚེ་དཔག (tshe-dpag) meaning "immeasurable life, boundless life", derived from ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and དཔག (dpag) meaning "measure, limit"... [more]
Tsetan m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (see Tsheten).
Tseten m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (see Tsheten).
Tsewang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).
Tseyang f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚེ (tshe) "life" and either དབྱངས (dbyangs) "song, voice" or གཡང (gyang) "happiness, blessing, prosperity".
Tsheten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (tshe-brtan) meaning "stable life, tenacious life", derived from ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and བརྟན (brtan) meaning "stable, firm, steadfast".
Tshewang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (tshe-dbang) meaning "powerful life, power of a long life", from ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and དབང (dbang) "power".
Tshomo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཚོ་མོ (see Tsomo).
Tshulthrim m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).
Tshultrim m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (tshul-khrims) meaning "conduct, ethics, morality".
Tsomo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan མཚོ་མོ (mtsho-mo) meaning "lake, ocean".
Tsondru m & f Tibetan
Means "perservering" in Tibetian.
Tsultim m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).
Tsultrim m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).
Tsundue m & f Tibetan
Means "effort, zeal, perseverance, diligence" in Tibetan.
Ugen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).
Ugyen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
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.
Urgyen m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).
Wangchen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་ཆེན (dbang-chen) meaning "great power", derived from དབང (dbang) meaning "power" and ཆེན (chen) meaning "great, big, large".
Wangchuck m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་ཕྱུག (see Wangchuk).
Wangdi m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་འདུས (dbang-'dus) meaning "to bring under control, to conquer".
Wangdu m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་འདུས (see Wangdi).
Wangdue m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་འདུས (see Wangdi).
Wangmo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་མོ (dbang-mo) meaning "queen, lady".
Wangpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་པོ (dbang-po) meaning "faculty, sense, power".
Wangyal m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་རྒྱལ (dbang-rgyal) meaning "powerful king" or "king of power", derived from དབང (dbang) meaning "power" and རྒྱལ (rgyal) meaning "king, monarch".
Wangyel m Bhutanese, Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་རྒྱལ (see Wangyal).
Woeser m & f Tibetan
Means "light, ray, beam, radiance" in Tibetan.
Yangchen 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 f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Combination of Yangchen and Tibetan མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".
Yangden f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྒྲོན (see Yangdon).
Yangdon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབྱངས་སྒྲོན (dbyangs-sgron) meaning "kindler of song", derived from དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "song, melody, voice" and སྒྲོན (sgron) meaning "to light, to kindle".
Yangkey f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (see Yangkyi).
Yangki f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (see Yangkyi).
Yangkyi f Tibetan
From Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (dbyangs-skyid) meaning "pleasant melody", derived from དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "melody, voice, tone" and སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "pleased, delighted".
Yangtsho f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་མཚོ (see Yangtso).
Yangtso f Tibetan
From Tibetan དབྱངས་མཚོ (dbyangs-mtsho) meaning "song of the ocean", derived from དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "song, melody, voice" and མཚོ (mtso) meaning "lake, ocean".
Yangzom f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབྱངས་འཛོམས (dbyangs-dzoms) meaning "endowed with melody", derived from དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "melody, voice, tone, vowel" and འཛོམས (dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Yeshay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).
Yeshe m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (ye-shes) meaning "wisdom, awareness, knowledge".