Submitted Names in Bhutan

Chencho m Bhutanese

Chewang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).

Chime f & m Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཆི་མེད (see Chimi).

Chimi f & m Bhutanese
From Tibetan འཆི་མེད (chi-med) meaning "immortal, undying".

Chimmi f & m Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཆི་མེད (see Chimi).

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).

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".

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".

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).

Chuki f Bhutanese

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).

Deki f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Diki.

Delek m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བདེ་ལེགས (bde-legs) meaning "bliss, happiness" or "good luck, auspiciousness".

Dem f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Dolma.

Dema f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Dolma.

Dendup m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Dhondup.

Dhan m Bhutanese

Dhendup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).

Dikki f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Diwash m Bhutanese

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]

Dorjee m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (see Dorji).

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).

Euphelma f Bhutanese

Garab m Bhutanese
Meaning unknown.

Gayley m & f Bhutanese (Rare)

Gurung m Bhutanese

Gyalpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal-po) meaning "king".

Gyaltshen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱལ་མཚན (see Gyaltsen).

Gyamtsho m Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Gyatso.

Gyeltshen m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Gyaltsen.

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".

Hemlal m Bhutanese

Ipisichung m Tibetan, Bhutanese

Jambay m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Jampa.

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]

Jamtsho m Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Gyatso.

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.

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).

Jigyel m Bhutanese

Jinpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྦྱིན་པ (sbyin-pa) meaning "giving, generosity, donation".

Kelden m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན (see Kalden).

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".

Kezang f & m Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kesang.

Khamsum m Bhutanese

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".

Khandu m Bhutanese

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).

Khesar m Bhutanese

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

Kinzang m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kunzang.

Kuenga m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Kunga.

Kuenzang m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kunzang.

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".

Lakpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷག་པ (see Lhakpa).

Leki m & f Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལས་སྐྱིད (las-skyid) meaning "happy deed", derived from ལས (las) meaning "action, deed, karma" and སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "delight, comfort, happiness".

Lhaden f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Lhadon.

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".

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".

Lhendrup m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Lhundup.

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".

Lobzang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).

Loday m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.

Lodey m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.

Lotay m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.

Lotey m & f Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Bhutanese བློ་གྲོས (see Lotay).

Lungten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལུང་བསྟན (lung-bstan) meaning "prophecy, revelation".

Lungtok m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལུང་རྟོགས (lung-rtogs) meaning "learning, realisation, perception".

Maytho f Bhutanese

Mendharawa f Bhutanese

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".

Minchhama f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Mon m Bhutanese

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).

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".

Nidup m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ (dngos-grub) meaning "realisation, (spiritual) attainment".

Nima m & f Bhutanese, Buryat
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཉི་མ (see Nyima), as well as the Buryat form.

Nooren f Tibetan, Bhutanese

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

Paljor m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དཔལ་འབྱོར (dpal-'byor) meaning "wealth, glory, riches, prosperity".

Pasang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan པ་སངས (pa-sangs) meaning "Venus (the planet)" or "Friday".

Peljor m Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Paljor.

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".

Pempa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).

Phinsang f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Phuntsho m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Phuntsok.

Phurba m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཕུར་བ (phur-ba) referring to a ceremonial three-sided dagger used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals.

Phurpa m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Phurba.

Puspalal m Bhutanese

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".

Rangdol m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རང་གྲོལ (rang-grol) meaning "self-liberation, self-release".

Rapten m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རབ་བརྟན (see Rabten).

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".

Rinchen m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རིན་ཆེན (rin-chen) meaning "treasure, gem, jewel".

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".

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".

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".

Sangmo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་མོ (see Zangmo).

Sangpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་པོ (see Zangpo).

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".

Sargam f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Serchen f Bhutanese

Shedrup m Bhutanese

Sherab m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཤེས་རབ (shes-rab) meaning "wisdom, knowledge, insight".

Singay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སེང་གེ (see Sangay).

Singhye m Bhutanese

Singye m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Sangay.

Subba m Bhutanese

Susami f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Tandin m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Damdrin.

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".

Tenzee f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Tenzin

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".

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).

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).

Tsewang m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).

Tsheltrim m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Tshultrim.

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".

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.

Wangay m Bhutanese

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".

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).

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".

Yangki f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (see Yangkyi).

Yangtsho f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་མཚོ (see Yangtso).

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".

Yeatso f Bhutanese

Yenten m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Yonten.

Yeshay m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).

Yeshey m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).

Yeshi m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).

Yoezer m Bhutanese

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

Yoser m Bhutanese

Youdon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (see Yudron).

Younten m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན (see Yonten).

Yuden f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (see Yudron).

Yudon f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (see Yudron).

Zam m Bhutanese

Zangmo f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བཟང་མོ (bzang-mo) meaning "kind, noble, good", used as the Tibetan form of Bhadra.

Zangpo m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བཟང་པོ (bzang-po) meaning "good, noble, excellent".