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Lobsang

Boys' name

Mind + good, through བློ་བཟང

Lobsang has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lobsang, 2015

1 in 617,000

Lobsang over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lobsang: meaning, origin, and history

Mind + good, through བློ་བཟང

Tibetan

What Lobsang means

Lobsang belongs to the name family reached through Lobsang → བློ་བཟང. Its meaning is “mind + good”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lobsang is used in English. Its origins include Tibetan.

Lobsang comes through Tibetan བློ་བཟང.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include བློ་བཟང.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Lobsang between 2014 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2015; its best national rank was #11,557 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Lobsang?

Lobsang had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 319,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lobsang sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lobsang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lobsangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lobsang was born before 2015 — so the typical Lobsang is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Lobsang rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (6)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,557
2015

Lobsang around the world

Where Lobsang ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2000–2000
    #3,486
    in 2000

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lobsang by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,557
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lobsang

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lobsang

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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