Tibetan Boy Names

Explore names documented in Tibetan naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1992.

63#2,254
Down 22 rank positions in five years
2014

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

—Unranked
—
2011

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003.

—Unranked
—
2022

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2000.

6#11,797
Up 1,964 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2006.

6#11,602
new
2022

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

—Unranked
—
1998

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2007.

—Unranked
—
2007

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2010.

6#11,614
new
2023

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2001.

5#12,877
new
2016

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017.

—Unranked
—
2017

Tibetan-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2014.

—Unranked
—
2015

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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