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Tsering

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Life + long, through ཚེ་རིང

Tsering has been given to 118 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2010, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.

Babies named Tsering, 2017

1 in 447,000

Tsering over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tsering over time

In 2024, Tsering went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20002024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tsering: meaning, origin, and history

Life + long, through ཚེ་རིང

Tibetan

What Tsering means

Tsering belongs to the name family reached through Tsering → ཚེ་རིང. Its meaning is “life + long”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tsering is used in English. Its origins include Tibetan.

Tsering comes through Tibetan ཚེ་རིང.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ཚེ་རིང.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Tsering between 2000 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2010; its best national rank was #11,985 in 2001.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Tsering between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #9,608 in 2010.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tsering?

Tsering had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 447,000
8 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 216,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
309,934 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tsering sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 309,934 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tsering. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tserings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tsering was born before 2008 — so the typical Tsering is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Tsering 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 2010 (9)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,985
2001

Spellings of Tsering

Tsering is not the most common spelling — Serina is, with 55.1% against Tsering's 0.80%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tsering is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Tsering was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 781,650 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tsering has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Tsering is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Tsering was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tsering has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tsering around the world

Where Tsering 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.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tsering by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,985
2001
Peak year
2010
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,608
2010
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Tsering

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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