Tibetan 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 1979.

409#692
Down 258 rank positions in five years
2012

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915.

120#1,706
Down 522 rank positions in five years
2009

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2002.

63#2,748
Down 1,597 rank positions in five years
2016

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 1971.

18#5,336
Up 554 rank positions in five years
1990

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1966.

13#8,302
Up 3,732 rank positions in five years
1988

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986.

11#9,380
Up 3,924 rank positions in five years
1992

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

—Unranked
—
2014

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

12#7,165
new
2025

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

—Unranked
—
2010

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 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 2002.

—Unranked
—
2002

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

—Unranked
—
2015

Documented Tibetan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2025.

6#14,458
new
2025

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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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