This is a list of submitted names in which the language is Tibetan; and the place is China.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Balbar m & f TibetanDerived from the Tibetan word དཔལ་ (
dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and འབར་ (
'bar) meaning "to burn, blaze".
Baljin m & f TibetanDerived from the Tibetan
དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and
སྦྱིན (sbyin) meaning "alms, donation".
Bhuchung m TibetanFrom Tibetan བུ་ཆུང
(bu-chung) meaning "small child, little boy".
Brugmo f TibetanFrom the Tibetan
འབྲུག ('brug) meaning "dragon, thunder" and
མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".
Chodron f Tibetan, BhutaneseMeans "kindler of the Dharma" from Tibetan ཆོས
(chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and སྒྲོན
(sgron) meaning "to light, to kindle".
Choenyi m & f TibetanMeans "sphere of reality, nature of all phenomena, totality of existence" in Tibetan, used as a translation of Sanskrit धर्मधातु
(dharmadhātu).
Choezom f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཆོས་འཛོམས
(chos-dzoms) meaning "plentiful dharma", derived from ཆོས
(chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and འཛོམས
(dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Chogori m Balti, Pakistani, TibetanChogori 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, BhutaneseFrom 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 TibetanFrom the Tibetan
ཆོས (chos) meaning "phenomenon, religion, reality, doctrine, dharma" and
འཕེལ ('phel) meaning "increase".
Chokden m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan མཆོག་ལྡན
(mchog-ldan) meaning "possessor of excellence", from མཆོག
(mchog) meaning "excellent, foremost, superior" and ལྡན
(ldan) meaning "to possess".
Choki m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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 TibetanFrom Tibetan ཆོས་ཀྱི
(chos-kyi) meaning "religious, pious, virtuous".
Chophel m Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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".
Chungdak m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཆུང་བདག
(chung-bdag) meaning "little one". This name was traditionally given to a child whose parents did not want any more children.
Damdrin m TibetanTibetan name for
Hayagriva, derived from རྟ
(rta) meaning "horse" and མགྲིན
(mgrin) meaning "neck, throat; voice".
Dasel m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཟླ
(zla) meaning "moon, month" and གསལ
(gsal) meaning "clear, bright, brilliant".
Delek m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan བདེ་ལེགས
(bde-legs) meaning "bliss, happiness" or "good luck, auspiciousness".
Dhondup m & f TibetanFrom 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"... [
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Diki f TibetanFrom Tibetan བདེ་སྐྱིད
(bde-skyid) meaning "happiness".
Dolkar f Tibetan, Bhutanese, BuddhismFrom 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"... [
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Dolma f Tibetan, Bhutanese, BuddhismFrom 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)... [
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Dukpa m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan འབྲུག་པ
('brug-pa) meaning "Bhutanese (person)", also referring to a school of Tibetan Buddhism (the Drukpa Kagyu).
Gawa m & f TibetanMeans "joy, love" or "to be happy, glad" in Tibetan.
Gendün m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan དགེ་འདུན
(dge-'dun) meaning "sangha", referring to the Buddhist community.
Gonpo m TibetanMeans "protector, guardian, benefactor" in Tibetan.
Gyaltsen m & f TibetanFrom 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".
Gyurme m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan གྱུར་མེད
(gyur-med) meaning "stable, unchanging", from གྱུར
(gyur) meaning "to change, to transform" and མེད
(med) meaning "not, without".
Jamphel m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, BuddhismFrom Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ
('jam-dpal) meaning "gentle splendour", derived from འཇམ
('jam) meaning "soft" and དཔལ
(dpal) meaning "splendour, glory, magnificence"... [
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Jetsunma f TibetanMeans "precious mistress (feminine form of master)" in Tibetan.
Jungne m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan འབྱུང་གནས
(byung-gnas) meaning "source, origin".
Kalden m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན
(skal-ldan) meaning "auspicious, fortunate, blessed".
Kelzang m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan སྐལ་བཟང
(skal-bzang) meaning "good fortune, good luck, auspicious age".
Khando f Tibetan, BhutaneseMeans "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".
Konchok m & f Tibetan, LadakhiFrom Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག
(dkon-mchog) meaning "rare jewel, excellent jewel", referring to the Three Jewels of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha).
Kunga m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཀུན་དགའ
(kun-dga') meaning "rejoicing, joyous", used as a Tibetan translation of the name
Ananda.
Kunley m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས
(kun-legs) meaning "all goodness", derived from ཀུན
(kun) meaning "all, every" and ལེགས
(legs) meaning "good, well, proper".
Kyab m TibetanFrom Tibetan སྐྱབས
(skyabs) meaning "refuge, protection".
Kyi f TibetanMeans "comfort, happiness" in Tibetan.
Kyizom f TibetanFrom Tibetan སྐྱིད་འཛོམས
(skyid-dzoms) meaning "plentiful happiness", derived from སྐྱིད
(skyid) meaning "happiness, delight" and འཛོམས
(dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Legpa m & f TibetanMeans "praiseworthy, useful" or "Mercury" in Tibetan.
Lhadon f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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".
Lhakyi f TibetanFrom Tibetan ལྷ
(lha) meaning "god, deity" and སྐྱིད
(skyid) meaning "happiness, delight".
Lhawang m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan ལྷ་དབང
(lha-dbang) meaning "power of the gods", derived from ལྷ
(lha) meaning "god, deity" and དབང
(dbang) meaning "power".
Lhundup m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan ལྷུན་གྲུབ
(lhun-grub) meaning "spontaneous presence, that which is automatic, effortless".
Lobsang m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan བློ་བཟང
(blo-bzang) meaning "noble-minded, intelligent, learned".
Lodro m TibetanFrom Tibetan བློ་གྲོས
(blo-gros) meaning "wisdom, understanding, intellect".
Mchogmdzes f TibetanDerived from the Tibetan
མཆོག (mchog) meaning "supreme" and
མཛེས (mdzes) meaning "beautiful".
Metok f TibetanFrom Tibetan མེ་ཏོག
(me-tog) meaning "flower, blossom".
Migmar m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan མིག་དམར
(mig-dmar) meaning "Mars (the planet)" or "Tuesday", composed of མིག
(mig) meaning "eye" and དམར
(dmar) meaning "red".
Mipham m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan མི་ཕམ
(mi-pham) meaning "unconquered, invincible", a Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit name
Ajita. This is an epithet of the bodhisattva
Maitreya.
Namgyal m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱལ
(rnam-rgyal) meaning "complete victory", derived from the intensifier རྣམ
(rnam) and རྒྱལ
(rgyal) meaning "conquest, victory".
Ngodup m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ
(dngos-grub) meaning "accomplishment, achievement, realisation, attainment".
Nidup m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ
(dngos-grub) meaning "realisation, (spiritual) attainment".
Norgay m TibetanFrom Tibetan ནོར་རྒྱས
(nor-rgyas) meaning "abundance, plenty, enriching". This is the Tibetan name for the naga king
Vasuki.
Norzang m & f TibetanMeans "prosperous wealth" in Tibetan, from ནོར་བུ
(nor bu) meaning "gem, jewel" and བཟང
(bzang) meaning "righteous, good".
Norzin f & m TibetanMeans "holding wealth" from Tibetan ནོར
(nor) meaning "wealth, riches" and འཛིན
(dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Nyima m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཉི་མ
(nyi-ma) meaning "sun, day".
Palchen m TibetanFrom Tibetan དཔལ་ཆེན
(dpal-chen) meaning "great glory", derived from དཔལ
(dpal) meaning "glory, splendour" and ཆེན
(chen) meaning "great, big, large".
Paljor m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan དཔལ་འབྱོར
(dpal-'byor) meaning "wealth, glory, riches, prosperity".
Palmo f Tibetan, LadakhiFrom 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 TibetanFrom Tibetan དཔལ་བཟང
(dpal-bzang) meaning "glorious, excellent".
Pemma f & m TibetanComes 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.
Phurba m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan ཕུར་བ
(phur-ba) referring to a ceremonial three-sided dagger used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals.
Phurbu m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཕུར་བུ
(phur-bu) meaning "Jupiter (the planet)" or "Thursday".
Rabgay m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan རབ་རྒྱས
(rab-rgyas) meaning "very broad, very wide", derived from རབ
(rab) meaning "very, extremely" and རྒྱས
(rgyas) meaning "extensive, broad, wide".
Rigzin m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, LadakhiFrom Tibetan རིག་འཛིན
(rig-dzin) meaning "holder of knowledge", derived from རིག
(rig) meaning "knowledge, awareness" and འཛིན
(dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Rinzin m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseMeans "holder of wealth" from Tibetan རིན
(rin) meaning "worth, value, riches" and འཛིན
(dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".
Samdup m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan བསམ་གྲུབ
(bsam-grub) meaning "fulfillment (of one's desires or wishes)".
Samphel m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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".
Samten m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan བསམ་གཏན
(bsam-gtan) meaning "meditative concentration, stable attention, awareness", derived from བསམ
(bsam) meaning "thought, thinking" and གཏན
(gtan) meaning "constant, perpetual"... [
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Sangye m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས
(sangs-rgyas) referring to the
Buddha, derived from སངས
(sangs) meaning "purified, cleansed" and རྒྱས
(rgyas) meaning "extended, spread".
Thaye m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan མཐའ་ཡས
(mtha-yas) meaning "limitless, endless, infinite".
Thupten m & f TibetanFrom 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".
Tobgay m Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས
(stobs-rgyas) meaning "mighty, extensive power", derived from སྟོབས
(stobs) meaning "power, force, strength" and རྒྱས
(rgyas) meaning "extensive, broad, wide".
Tsamchoe f TibetanMeans "cessation, termination, stop, end (as in stopping evil spirits)" in Tibetan.
Tsangchung m & f TibetanDerived from the Tibetan
ཆུང (tsang) meaning "complete, entire" and
ཆུང (chung) meaning "little".
Tselha f & m TibetanTselha is a unisex name of Tibetan origin. It's comprised of ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and ལྷ (lha) meaning "god/dess."
Tsepak m & f Buddhism, TibetanFrom Tibetan ཚེ་དཔག
(tshe-dpag) meaning "immeasurable life, boundless life", derived from ཚེ
(tshe) meaning "life" and དཔག
(dpag) meaning "measure, limit"... [
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Tseyang f TibetanFrom Tibetan
ཚེ (
tshe) "life" and either
དབྱངས (
dbyangs) "song, voice" or
གཡང (
gyang) "happiness, blessing, prosperity".
Tsheten m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan ཚེ་དབང
(tshe-dbang) meaning "powerful life, power of a long life", from ཚེ
(tshe) meaning "life" and དབང
(dbang) "power".
Tsundue m & f TibetanMeans "effort, zeal, perseverance, diligence" in Tibetan.
Ugyen m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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.
Wangchen m & f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan དབང་ཆེན
(dbang-chen) meaning "great power", derived from དབང
(dbang) meaning "power" and ཆེན
(chen) meaning "great, big, large".
Wangyal m Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan དབང་རྒྱལ
(dbang-rgyal) meaning "powerful king" or "king of power", derived from དབང
(dbang) meaning "power" and རྒྱལ
(rgyal) meaning "king, monarch".
Woeser m & f TibetanMeans "light, ray, beam, radiance" in Tibetan.
Yangdon f Tibetan, BhutaneseFrom 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".
Yangkyi f TibetanFrom Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད
(dbyangs-skyid) meaning "pleasant melody", derived from དབྱངས
(dbyangs) meaning "melody, voice, tone" and སྐྱིད
(skyid) meaning "pleased, delighted".
Yangtso f TibetanFrom 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, BhutaneseFrom Tibetan དབྱངས་འཛོམས
(dbyangs-dzoms) meaning "endowed with melody", derived from དབྱངས
(dbyangs) meaning "melody, voice, tone, vowel" and འཛོམས
(dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".
Yeshe m & f TibetanFrom Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས
(ye-shes) meaning "wisdom, awareness, knowledge".