Names of Bhutan BT

The names that most distinguish Bhutan from the rest of the world are Zangmo, Sonam and Tshering.

Written in dz.

Population
782K
Name forms recorded
17
BBuilt from 17 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Bhutan

Names in Bhutan follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Bhutan

Every record we hold for Bhutan — 17 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common
1Sonam——
2Tshering——
11Yeshi——
20Jigme——
41Damcho——
147Karma——
153โซนัม——

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Bhutan at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Bhutan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Bhutan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

SonamTsheringYeshi
Sized by how much of the difference between Bhutan's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Sonamgiven name(measured from records)
Tsheringgiven name(measured from records)
Zangmosurname(measured from records)
Yeshigiven name(measured from records)
Jigmegiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Bhutan, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Bhutan?
We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Bhutan”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/BT (data snapshot 2026-10-09).