Bhutanese Submitted Names

Bhutanese names are used in the country of Bhutan in southern Asia.
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Chewang ཚེ་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).
Chime འཆི་མེད f & m Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཆི་མེད (see Chimi).
Chimi འཆི་མེད f & m Bhutanese
From Tibetan འཆི་མེད (chi-med) meaning "immortal, undying".
Chimmi འཆི་མེད f & m Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཆི་མེད (see Chimi).
Choden ཆོས་ལྡན f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཆོས་ལྡན (chos-ldan) meaning "devout, righteous, pious".
Chodon ཆོས་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chodron).
Chodron ཆོས་སྒྲོན 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 ཆོས་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྒྲོན (see Chodron).
Chogyal ཆོས་རྒྱལ 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 ཆོས་སྐྱིད m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་སྐྱིད (see Choki).
Choki 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".
Chopel ཆོས་འཕེལ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (see Chophel).
Chophel ཆོས་འཕེལ 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".
Dakpa གྲགས་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan གྲགས་པ (grags-pa) meaning "renown, fame, honour".
Damcho དམ་ཆོས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (dam-chos) meaning "noble doctrine, sacred teachings".
Damchoe དམ་ཆོས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དམ་ཆོས (see Damcho).
Deki བདེ་སྐྱིད f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Diki.
Delek བདེ་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བདེ་ལེགས (bde-legs) meaning "bliss, happiness" or "good luck, auspiciousness".
Dem སྒྲོལམ, སྒྲོལམོ f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Dolma.
Dema སྒྲོལ་མ f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Dolma.
Dendup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Dhondup.
Dhendup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).
Dolkar སྒྲོལ་དཀར 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 སྒྲོལ་མ 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 རྡོ་རྗེ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (see Dorji).
Dukpa འབྲུག་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan འབྲུག་པ ('brug-pa) meaning "Bhutanese (person)", also referring to a school of Tibetan Buddhism (the Drukpa Kagyu).
Garab m Bhutanese
Meaning unknown.
Gyalpo རྒྱལ་པོ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal-po) meaning "king".
Gyaltshen རྒྱལ་མཚན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱལ་མཚན (see Gyaltsen).
Gyeltshen རྒྱལ་མཚན m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Gyaltsen.
Gyurme གྱུར་མེད 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".
Jampa བྱམས་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Buddhism
From Tibetan བྱམས་པ (byams-pa) meaning "kindness, benevolence". This is the Tibetan name for the bodhisattva Maitreya.
Jampel འཇམ་དཔལ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇམ་དཔལ (see Jamphel).
Jamphel འཇམ་དཔལ 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 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.
Jigme འཇིགས་མེད m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད ('jigs-med) meaning "fearless, brave".
Jigmey འཇིགས་མེད m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འཇིགས་མེད (see Jigme).
Jinpa སྦྱིན་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྦྱིན་པ (sbyin-pa) meaning "giving, generosity, donation".
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.
Kelden སྐལ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན (see Kalden).
Kelzang བཀལ་བཟང 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 Bhutanese
Means "fabulous period of time" or "great eon." Has Tibetan origins.
Kezang བཀལ་བཟང m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kelzang.
Khedrup མཁས་གྲུབ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan མཁས་གྲུབ (mkhas-grub) meaning "learned, scholar, accomplished".
Khedup མཁས་གྲུབ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཁས་གྲུབ (see Khedrup).
Kinley ཀུན་ལེགས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་ལེགས (see Kunley).
Kinzang ཀུན་བཟང m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kunzang.
Kuenzang ཀུན་བཟང m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Kunzang.
Kunley ཀུན་ལེགས 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 ལྷག་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷག་པ (see Lhakpa).
Leki ལས་སྐྱིད 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".
Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན 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 ལྷག་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ལྷག་པ (lhag-pa) meaning "Mercury (the planet)" or "Wednesday".
Lhawang ལྷ་དབང 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".
Lobzang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).
Loday བློ་གྲོས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.
Lodey བློ་གྲོས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.
Lotay བློ་གྲོས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Lodro.
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).
Migmar མིག་དམར 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".
Namgay རྣམ་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (rnam-gyas) meaning "abundant, copious".
Namgey རྣམ་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (see Namgay).
Namgyal རྣམ་རྒྱལ 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 རྣམ་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱས (see Namgay).
Namgyel རྣམ་རྒྱལ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྣམ་རྒྱལ (see Namgyal).
Nawang ངག་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ངག་དབང (see Ngawang).
Nidup དངོས་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དངོས་གྲུབ (dngos-grub) meaning "realisation, (spiritual) attainment".
Nima ཉི་མ m & f Bhutanese, Buryat
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཉི་མ (see Nyima), as well as the Buryat form.
Palden དཔལ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དཔལ་ལྡན (dpal-ldan) meaning "glorious, illustrious, splendous".
Pasang པ་སངས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan པ་སངས (pa-sangs) meaning "Venus (the planet)" or "Friday".
Pem པདྨ f & m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan པདྨ (pdma) meaning "lotus", ultimately from Sanskrit पद्म (padma).
Pemba སྤེན་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྤེན་པ (spen-pa) meaning "Saturn (the planet)" or "Saturday".
Pempa སྤེན་པ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).
Phuntsho ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Phuntsok.
Phurba ཕུར་བ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཕུར་བ (phur-ba) referring to a ceremonial three-sided dagger used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals.
Rabgye རབ་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རབ་རྒྱས (see Rabgay).
Rabten རབ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རབ་བརྟན (rab-brtan) meaning "steady, steadfast".
Rapten རབ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རབ་བརྟན (see Rabten).
Rigzin རིག་འཛིན 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 རིན་ཆེན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan རིན་ཆེན (rin-chen) meaning "treasure, gem, jewel".
Rinzin རིན་འཛིན 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 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 "meditative concentration, stable attention, awareness", derived from བསམ (bsam) meaning "thought, thinking" and གཏན (gtan) meaning "constant, perpetual"... [more]
Sangay སེང་གེ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སེང་གེ (seng-ge) meaning "lion".
Sangmo བཟང་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་མོ (see Zangmo).
Sangpo བཟང་པོ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཟང་པོ (see Zangpo).
Sangye སངས་རྒྱས 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 སངས་རྒྱས་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Combination of Sangye and Tibetan མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".
Sherab ཤེས་རབ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཤེས་རབ (shes-rab) meaning "wisdom, knowledge, insight".
Singay སེང་གེ m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སེང་གེ (see Sangay).
Singye སེང་གེ m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Sangay.
Tandin རྟ་མགྲིན m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese form of Damdrin.
Tempa བསྟན་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསྟན་པ (see Tenpa).
Tenpa བསྟན་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བསྟན་པ (bstan-pa) meaning "teaching, doctrine".
Thinlay ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (see Thinley).
Thinley ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (phrin-las) meaning "action, act, karma".
Tobden སྟོབས་ལྡན m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan སྟོབས་ལྡན (stobs-ldan) meaning "powerful, strong".
Tobgay སྟོབས་རྒྱས 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 སྟོབས་རྒྱས m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས (see Tobgay).
Trinley ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (see Thinley).
Tsewang ཚེ་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་དབང (see Tshewang).
Tsheltrim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས m & f Bhutanese
Bhutanese variant of Tshultrim.
Tsheten ཚེ་བརྟན 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 ཚེ་དབང 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 མཚོ་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཚོ་མོ (see Tsomo).
Tshulthrim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས m & f Bhutanese, Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).
Tshultrim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (tshul-khrims) meaning "conduct, ethics, morality".
Tsomo མཚོ་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan མཚོ་མོ (mtsho-mo) meaning "lake, ocean".
Ugyen ཨོ་རྒྱན 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.
Wangchen དབང་ཆེན 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 དབང་ཕྱུག m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་ཕྱུག (see Wangchuk).
Wangdi དབང་འདུས m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་འདུས (dbang-'dus) meaning "to bring under control, to conquer".
Wangdue དབང་འདུས m Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་འདུས (see Wangdi).
Wangmo དབང་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་མོ (dbang-mo) meaning "queen, lady".
Wangpo དབང་པོ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan དབང་པོ (dbang-po) meaning "faculty, sense, power".
Wangyal དབང་རྒྱལ 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".
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 དབྱངས་སྒྲོན 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 དབྱངས་སྐྱིད f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (see Yangkyi).
Yangtsho དབྱངས་མཚོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་མཚོ (see Yangtso).
Yangzom དབྱངས་འཛོམས 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 ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).
Yeshey ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).
Yeshi ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (see Yeshe).
Yonten ཡོན་ཏན m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན (yon-tan) meaning "virtue, good quality, capability, knowledge".
Youdon གཡུ་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (see Yudron).
Yudon གཡུ་སྒྲོན f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (see Yudron).
Zangmo བཟང་མོ f Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བཟང་མོ (bzang-mo) meaning "kind, noble, good", used as the Tibetan form of Bhadra.
Zangpo བཟང་པོ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan བཟང་པོ (bzang-po) meaning "good, noble, excellent".