Bhutanese Submitted Names

Bhutanese names are used in the country of Bhutan in southern Asia.
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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Chewang ཚེ་དབང་ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Tsewang.
Choden ཆོས་ལྡན f & m Bhutanese, Tibetan
Derived from Tibetan ཆོས་ལྡན (chos-ldan) meaning "devout, religious".
Chophel ཆོས་འཕེལ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (chos 'phel) meaning "flourishing dharma" or "spread of dharma".
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.
Garab m Bhutanese
Meaning unknown.
Jampa བྱམས་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བྱམས་པ (byams pa) meaning "kindness, benevolence".
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".
Jetsun རྗེ་བཙུན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "venerable, exalted, reverend" in Tibetan.
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.
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.
Kesang f Bhutanese
Means "fabulous period of time" or "great eon." Has Tibetan origins.
Kinley ཀུན་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "goodness, joy" in Tibetan.
Kunley ཀུན་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས (see Kinley).
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.
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).
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.
Phuntsho ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Phuntso.
Phurba ཕུར་བ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Phurbu.
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.
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).
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".
Sherab ཤེས་རབ་ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Means "wisdom, understanding" in Tibetan.
Singye སེང་གེ m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Means "lion" in Tibetan.
Tenpa བསྟན་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསྟན་པ (bstan pa) meaning "(Buddhist) doctrine".
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.
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.
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".
Yangki ཡའནངགི m & f Bhutanese
Yeshey ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant transcription of Yeshe.
Yonten ཡོན་ཏན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན (yon tan) meaning "knowledge" or "virtue, good quality".