Tibetan Submitted Names

Baimadajie m Tibetan (Sinicized)
Sinicized version of Pema Dhargyal.

Balbar དཔལ་འབར་ m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan word དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and འབར་ ('bar) meaning "to burn, blaze".

Balgarma དཔལདཀརམ f Tibetan
From the Tibetan དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck", དཀར (dkar) meaning "white", "bright, light" or "pure" and མ (ma) meaning "mother".

Baljin དཔལ་སྦྱིན m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan དཔལ་ (dpal) meaning "glory, fortune, luck" and སྦྱིན (sbyin) meaning "alms, donation".

Basang བསང f & m Tibetan
Means "smoke offering, purification" in Tibetan.

Bhuchung བུ་ཆུང m Tibetan
From Tibetan བུ་ཆུང (bu-chung) meaning "small child, little boy".

Bhutila f Tibetan
Meaning "Mother of 10,000 children" in Tibetan.

Bimyong m Tibetan, Bhutanese

Bini f Tibetan

Bola བོ་ལ་ f Arabic, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Tibetan
Short form of Bolata.

Brugmo འབྲུགམོ f Tibetan
From the Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug) meaning "dragon, thunder" and མོ (mo) meaning "female, woman".

Buchung བུ་ཆུང m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བུ་ཆུང (see Bhuchung).

Bzhichog བཞིཆོག f Tibetan
Means "four is enough" in Tibetan, perhaps expressing a wish for no more children.

Changchub བྱང་ཆུབ f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).

Changchup བྱང་ཆུབ f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བྱང་ཆུབ (see Jangchub).

Chegu ཆེ་རྒུ m & f Tibetan
Means "magnitude, grandeur" in Tibetan.

Chenmo ཆེན་མོ f Tibetan
Means "big" in Tibetan.

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

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).

Choegyal ཆོས་རྒྱལ m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (see Chogyal).

Choekyi ཆོས་ཀྱི m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་ཀྱི (see Chokyi).

Choephel ཆོས་འཕེལ m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆོས་འཕེལ (see Chophel).

Choezom m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Chogden མཆོག་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མཆོག་ལྡན (see Chokden).

Chogori m Balti, Pakistani, Tibetan
Chogori 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 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".

Choimpel ཆོསའཕེལ m & f Tibetan
From the Tibetan ཆོས (chos) meaning "phenomenon, religion, reality, doctrine, dharma" and འཕེལ ('phel) meaning "increase".

Chokden མཆོག་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan མཆོག་ལྡན (mchog-ldan) meaning "possessor of excellence", from མཆོག (mchog) meaning "excellent, foremost, superior" and ལྡན (ldan) meaning "to possess".

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".

Chokyi ཆོས་ཀྱི m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཆོས་ཀྱི (chos-kyi) meaning "religious, pious, virtuous".

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".

Chungda ཆུང་བདག m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཆུང་བདག (see Chungdak).

Chungdak ཆུང་བདག m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཆུང་བདག (chung-bdag) meaning "little one". This name was traditionally given to a child whose parents did not want any more children.

Dakpa གྲགས་པ m Tibetan, Bhutanese
From Tibetan གྲགས་པ (grags-pa) meaning "renown, fame, honour".

Dalai m Tibetan

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).

Damdrin རྟ་མགྲིན m Tibetan
Tibetan name for Hayagriva, derived from རྟ (rta) meaning "horse" and མགྲིན (mgrin) meaning "neck, throat; voice".

Dampa དམ་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "true" in Tibetan.

Dargye དར་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan
Means "progress" in Tibetan.

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

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

Dhondup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
From 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"... [more]

Dhundup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).

Dichen f Tibetan

Diki བདེ་སྐྱིད f Tibetan
From Tibetan བདེ་སྐྱིད (bde-skyid) meaning "happiness".

Dikki f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Dkarchung m & f Tibetan
Means "little white one" in Tibetian.

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]

Döndrub དོན་གྲུབ m Tibetan
Means "one who achieves his aspirations" in Tibetan.

Dondup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).

Dorje རྡོ་རྗེ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (see Dorji).

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

Dragpa གྲགས་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "reputed" in Tibetan.

Drokmi འབྲོག m & f Tibetan
Means "nomad" in Tibetan.

Drölkar སྒྲོལ་དཀར་ f Tibetan

Drolma སྒྲོལ་མ f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྒྲོལ་མ (see Dolma).

Dronma སྒྲོན་མ f Tibetan
Means "light, lamp", also an honorific title.

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).

Dundup དོན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དོན་གྲུབ (see Dhondup).

Gawa དགའ་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "joy, love" or "to be happy, glad" in Tibetan.

Gedun དགེ་འདུན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དགེ་འདུན (see Gendün).

Gendün དགེ་འདུན m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan དགེ་འདུན (dge-'dun) meaning "sangha", referring to the Buddhist community.

Gephel དགེ་འཕེལ m & f Tibetan
Means "one who promotes virtue" in Tibetan.

Gonpo མགོན་པོ m Tibetan
Means "protector, guardian, benefactor" in Tibetan.

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

Gyaltsen རྒྱལ་མཚན m & f Tibetan
From 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".

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

Gyalwa རྒྱལ་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "victorious" in Tibetan.

Gyatsho རྒྱ་མཚོ m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྒྱ་མཚོ (see Gyatso).

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".

Gyurmey གྱུར་མེད m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan གྱུར་མེད (see Gyurme).

Ipisichung m Tibetan, Bhutanese

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.

Jetsunma རྗེ་བཙུན་མ f Tibetan
Means "precious mistress (feminine form of master)" in Tibetan.

Jigmay m Bhutanese, Tibetan
Variant of Jigme.

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".

Joti ཇོ་ཏི་ f & m Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Tibetan
Variant of Jyoti.

Jungne འབྱུང་གནས m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan འབྱུང་གནས (byung-gnas) meaning "source, origin".

Jungney འབྱུང་གནས m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan འབྱུང་གནས (see Jungne).

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.

Kalden སྐལ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐལ་ལྡན (skal-ldan) meaning "auspicious, fortunate, blessed".

Kalsang བཀལ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelzang).

Kalzang བཀལ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བཀལ་བཟང (see Kelzang).

Karpo དཀར་པོ m & f Tibetan
Means "white, pure" in Tibetan.

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

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

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".

Khandro མཁའ་འགྲོ f Tibetan
Means "celestial dancer" in Tibetan.

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).

Khyenpa མཁྱེན་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "one who knows" in Tibetan.

Khyentse མཁྱེན་བརྩེ m & f Tibetan
Means "wisdom" in Tibetan.

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

Konchog དཀོན་མཆོག m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (see Konchok).

Konchok དཀོན་མཆོག m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
From Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (dkon-mchog) meaning "rare jewel, excellent jewel", referring to the Three Jewels of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha).

Kunchok དཀོན་མཆོག m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དཀོན་མཆོག (see Konchok).

Kunga m Tibetan

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".

Kunsang ཀུན་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཀུན་བཟང (see Kunzang).

Kyab སྐྱབས m Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐྱབས (skyabs) meaning "refuge, protection".

Kyizom སྐྱིད་འཛོམས f Tibetan
From Tibetan སྐྱིད་འཛོམས (skyid-dzoms) meaning "plentiful happiness", derived from སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "happiness, delight" and འཛོམས (dzoms) meaning "abundant, plentiful".

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

Lamo ལྷ་མོ f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ལྷ་མོ (see Lhamo).

Legpa ལེགས་པ m & f Tibetan
Means "praiseworthy, useful" or "Mercury" in Tibetan.

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".

Lharje ལྷ་རྗེ m Tibetan
Means "divine master" in Tibetan.

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".

Lhundrup ལྷུན་གྲུབ m & f Tibetan
Means "spontaneous presence" in Tibetan.

Lobsang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་བཟང (blo-bzang) meaning "noble-minded, intelligent, learned".

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

Loden བློ་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
Means "intelligent" in Tibetan.

Lodro བློ་གྲོས m Tibetan
From Tibetan བློ་གྲོས (blo-gros) meaning "wisdom, understanding, intellect".

Lopsang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).

Losang བློ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བློ་བཟང (see Lobsang).

Lungtog ལུང་རྟོགས m & f Tibetan
Means "prophecy" in Tibetan.

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).

Mchogmdzes མཆོགམཛེས f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan མཆོག (mchog) meaning "supreme" and མཛེས (mdzes) meaning "beautiful".

Metog མེ་ཏོག f Tibetan
Means "flower" in Tibetan.

Metok མེ་ཏོག་ f Tibetan
Means "flower" in Tibetan.

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".

Mikyo མི་བསྐྱོད m & f Tibetan
Means "unshakeable" in Tibetan.

Milarepa m Tibetan

Minchhama f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Mingma མིག་དམར m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan མིག་དམར (see Migmar).

Mipam m Tibetan
Variant of Mipham.

Mipham མི་ཕམ m & f Tibetan
Means "unconquered, invincible", from Tibetan མི (mi) meaning "not" and ཕམ (pham) meaning "defeated, subdued".

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).

Namkha ནམ་མཁ m & f Tibetan
Means "space, opening" in Tibetan.

Namlang ནམ་ལངས m & f Tibetan
Means "dawn" in Tibetan.

Nangwa སྣང་བ m & f Tibetan
Means "appearance, evidence" in Tibetan.

Nawang ངག་དབང m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ངག་དབང (see Ngawang).

Ngodup m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

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

Nooren f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Norgay ནོར་རྒྱས m Tibetan
From Tibetan ནོར་རྒྱས (nor-rgyas) meaning "abundance, plenty, enriching". This is the Tibetan name for the naga king Vasuki.

Norzang ནོར་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Means "prosperous wealth" in Tibetan, from ནོར་བུ (nor bu) meaning "gem, jewel" and བཟང (bzang) meaning "righteous, good".

Norzin ནོར་འཛིན f & m Tibetan
Means "holding wealth" from Tibetan ནོར (nor) meaning "wealth, riches" and འཛིན (dzin) meaning "to hold, to bear".

Norzing ནོར་འཛིན f & m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ནོར་འཛིན (see Norzin).

Nudan ནུས་ལྡན m & f Tibetan
Means "powerful, efficient" in Tibetan.

Nyima ཉི་མ m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi-ma) meaning "sun, day".

Nyingpo སྙིང་པོ m & f Tibetan
Means "heart" in Tibetan.

Nyinje ཉིན་བྱེད m & f Tibetan
Means "compassion" in Tibetan.

Ogyen ཨོ་རྒྱན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).

Orgyen ཨོ་རྒྱན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).

Osel འོད་གསལ m & f Tibetan
Means "bright light" in Tibetan.

Palchen དཔལ་ཆེན m Tibetan
From Tibetan དཔལ་ཆེན (dpal-chen) meaning "great glory", derived from དཔལ (dpal) meaning "glory, splendour" and ཆེན (chen) meaning "great, big, large".

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

Paldon m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Palmo དཔལ་མོ f Tibetan, Ladakhi
From 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 དཔལ་བཟང m & f Tibetan
Means "glorious" in Tibetan.

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".

Pemma f & m Tibetan
Comes 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.

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

Penba སྤེན་པ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).

Penpa སྤེན་པ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྤེན་པ (see Pemba).

Phinsang f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Phuntsog ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕུན་ཚོགས (see 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.

Phurbu ཕུར་བུ m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཕུར་བུ (phur-bu) meaning "Jupiter (the planet)" or "Thursday".

Puntsok ཕུན་ཚོགས m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕུན་ཚོགས (see Phuntsok).

Rabgay རབ་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan རབ་རྒྱས (rab-rgyas) meaning "very broad, very wide", derived from རབ (rab) meaning "very, extremely" and རྒྱས (rgyas) meaning "extensive, broad, wide".

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".

Raldri རལ་གྲི། m Tibetan
Means "sword" in Tibetan.

Rangdol m & f Tibetan
Meaning unknown.

Rangdrol རང་གྲོལ m & f Tibetan
Means "freedom" in Tibetan.

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

Rgyasbyin རྒྱསྦྱིན m Tibetan
Means "vast, immense donation or charity"

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

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".

Rigzing རིག་འཛིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rinzin).

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

Rinchin རིན་ཆེན m & f Tibetan, Buryat, Mongolian
Tibetan alternate transcription of Rinchen as well as the Buryat and Mongolian form. In Buryatia it is solely used as a masculine name.

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

Ringzing རིག་འཛིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིག་འཛིན (see Rinzin).

Rinzen m Tibetan

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".

Rinzing རིན་འཛིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རིན་འཛིན (see Rinzin).

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".

Samtan བསམ་གཏན m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan བསམ་གཏན (see Samten).

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".

Sanggyai སངས་རྒྱས m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སངས་རྒྱས (see Sangye).

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".

Sargam f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Sarjung གསར་བྱུང m & f Tibetan
Means "new" in Tibetan.

Senge m Tibetan
Means "lion" in Tibetan.

Shenpen གཞན་ཕན m & f Tibetan
Means "altruism" in Tibetan.

Shenyen བཤེས་གཉེན m & f Tibetan
Means "spiritual companion" in Tibetan.

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

Sherap ཤེས་རབ m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཤེས་རབ (see Sherab).

Shigara m Pakistani, Urdu, Balti, Tibetan
From the word Shigar, which means "Rock" in Balti and Tibetan.

Shonnu གཞོན་ནུ m & f Tibetan
Means "young" in Tibetan.

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

Smindrug སྨིནདྲུག་ m & f Tibetan
Allegedly means "the Pleiades" in Tibetan.

Susami f Tibetan, Bhutanese

Tamdin རྟ་མགྲིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).

Tamding རྟ་མགྲིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).

Tamdrin རྟ་མགྲིན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan རྟ་མགྲིན (see Damdrin).

Tarchin མཐར་ཕྱིན m & f Tibetan
Means "completion" in Tibetian.

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".

Tenzee f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Variant of Tenzin

Thaye མཐའ་ཡས m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan མཐའ་ཡས (mtha-yas) meaning "limitless, endless, infinite".

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".

Thubten ཐུབ་བསྟན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཐུབ་བསྟན (see Thupten).

Thupten ཐུབ་བསྟན m & f Tibetan
From 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".

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).

Topgay སྟོབས་རྒྱས m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan སྟོབས་རྒྱས (see Tobgay).

Trashi བཀྲ་ཤིས་ m & f Tibetan

Trinley ཕྲིན་ལས m & f Tibetan, Bhutanese
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཕྲིན་ལས (see Thinley).

Tsangchung ཆུངཆུང m & f Tibetan
Derived from the Tibetan ཆུང (tsang) meaning "complete, entire" and ཆུང (chung) meaning "little".

Tselha ཚེ་ལྷ f & m Tibetan
Tselha is a unisex name of Tibetan origin. It's comprised of ཚེ (tshe) meaning "life" and ལྷ (lha) meaning "god/dess."

Tsemo རྩེ་མོ m & f Tibetan
Means "peak" in Tibetan.

Tsepak m & f Tibetan
From 'ཚེ' (tshe), meaning "life".

Tsetan ཚེ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan, Ladakhi
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (see Tsheten).

Tseten ཚེ་བརྟན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚེ་བརྟན (see Tsheten).

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

Tseyang ཚེ་དབྱངས་ f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཚེ (tshe) "life" and either དབྱངས (dbyangs) "song, voice" or གཡང (gyang) "happiness, blessing, prosperity".

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".

Tsondru བརྩོན་འགྲུས m & f Tibetan
Means "perservering" in Tibetian.

Tsultim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).

Tsultrim ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས (see Tshultrim).

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.

Urgyen ཨོ་རྒྱན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཨོ་རྒྱན (see Ugyen).

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".

Wangdu དབང་འདུས m Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབང་འདུས (see Wangdi).

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".

Yabshi f Tibetan

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".

Yangkey དབྱངས་སྐྱིད f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (see Yangkyi).

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

Yangkyi དབྱངས་སྐྱིད f Tibetan
From Tibetan དབྱངས་སྐྱིད (dbyangs-skyid) meaning "pleasant melody", derived from དབྱངས (dbyangs) meaning "melody, voice, tone" and སྐྱིད (skyid) meaning "pleased, delighted".

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

Yangtso དབྱངས་མཚོ f Tibetan
From 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 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).

Yeshe ཡེ་ཤེས m & f Tibetan
From Tibetan ཡེ་ཤེས (ye-shes) meaning "wisdom, awareness, knowledge".

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).

Yontan ཡོན་ཏན m & f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan ཡོན་ཏན (see Yonten).

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).

Yudron གཡུ་སྒྲོན f Tibetan
From Tibetan གཡུ་སྒྲོན (gyu-sgron) meaning "turquoise lamp".

Yungchen དབྱངས་ཅན f Tibetan
Alternate transcription of Tibetan དབྱངས་ཅན (see Yangchen).

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".

Zerdan ཟེར་ལྡན m Tibetan
Munpa Zerdan- ... [more]