Bhutanese Submitted Names

Chencho m Bhutanese

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

Chimi f & m Bhutanese

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

Chodon ཆོས་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chödrön).

Chödrön ཆོས་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "kindler of dharma" from Tibetan ཆོས (chos) meaning "religion, scripture, dharma" and སྒྲོན (sgron) meaning "to light, to kindle".

Choedon ཆོས་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chödrön).

Chokey m Bhutanese

Chokey ཆོས་སྐྱིད 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".

Chöki ཆོས་སྐྱིད 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".

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

Chuki f Bhutanese

Damchö དམ་ཆོས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (dam-chos) meaning "noble doctrine, sacred teachings" (referring to Buddhism).

Damchoe དམ་ཆོས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (see Damchö).

Dechan f Bhutanese

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

Dema སྒྲོལ་མ f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Dolma.

Dendup m Bhutanese

Dhan m Bhutanese

Dhendup m Bhutanese

Diwash m Bhutanese

Dolkar སྒྲོལ་དཀར f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྒྲོལ་དཀར (sgrol-dkar) derived from སྒྲོལ (sgrol) meaning "liberate, save, free" (referring to the bodhisattva Tara 2) and དཀར (dkar) meaning "white"... [more]

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]

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

Dukpa m Bhutanese

Euphelma f Bhutanese

Garab m Bhutanese
Meaning unknown.

Gayley m & f Bhutanese (Rare)

Gurung m Bhutanese

Gyaltshen m Bhutanese

Gyeltshen m Bhutanese

Gyeltshen རྒྱལ་མཚན m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Gyaltsen.

Gyurme གྱུར་མེད m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "stable, unchanging" from Tibetan གྱུར (gyur) meaning "to change, to transform" and མེད (med) meaning "not, without".

Hemlal m Bhutanese

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

Jampel འཇམ་དཔལ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ (see Jamphel).

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".

Jangchub བྱང་ཆུབ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (byang-chub) meaning "enlightenment, awakening".

Jangchup བྱང་ཆུབ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).

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

Jigmey འཇིགས་མེད m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད (see Jigme).

Jigyel m Bhutanese

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.

Kelzang བཀལ་བཟང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelsang).

Kesang f Bhutanese
Means "fabulous period of time" or "great eon." Has Tibetan origins.

Kezang m Bhutanese

Khamsum m Bhutanese

Khandu m Bhutanese

Khesar m Bhutanese

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

Kinzang m & f Bhutanese

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

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

Leki m Bhutanese

Lhaden f Bhutanese

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

Lhendup m Bhutanese

Loday m Bhutanese
Loday in Buddhism means wisdom. It is popularly used in the small kingdom of Bhutan. The famous ones who used this names were Guru Loday Choeksey, the famous Buddhist Tantric Master in the 8th century... [more]

Lotay བློ་གྲོས m Bhutanese
Dzongkha form of Lodrö.

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).

Maytho f Bhutanese

Mendharawa f Bhutanese

Mon m Bhutanese

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Pem f Bhutanese

Phuntsho ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Phuntso.

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

Puspalal m Bhutanese

Rigdzin རིག་འཛིན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rigzin).

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.

Samdrup བསམ་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསམ་གྲུབ (see Samdup).

Samdup བསམ་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསམ་གྲུབ (bsam-grub) meaning "fulfillment (of one's desires or wishes)".

Samphel བསམ་འཕེལ 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 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).

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

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".

Serchen f Bhutanese

Shedrup m Bhutanese

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

Singhye m Bhutanese

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

Subba m Bhutanese

Tandin m Bhutanese

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

Tenzee f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Tenzin

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.

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.

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

Tshultrim m Bhutanese

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.

Wangay m Bhutanese

Wangchuck དབང་ཕྱུག m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་ཕྱུག (see Wangchuk).

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".

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).

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".

Yangdon f Bhutanese

Yangki ཡའནངགི m & f Bhutanese

Yangzom f Bhutanese

Yeatso f Bhutanese

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

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

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

Yoezer m Bhutanese

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

Yoser m Bhutanese

Zam m Bhutanese

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