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
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
14
BBuilt from 1 official register, 14 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.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Bhutan are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Bhutan included.

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

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.●

Scripts & spelling

Sonamgiven name●
Tsheringgiven name●
Zangmosurname●
Yeshigiven name●
Phuntshosurname●
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

Official registers

  • The page discusses Bhutan's first economic census conducted with assistance from the World Bank.2019not a population count

    blogs.worldbank.org. Counts: not recorded. given. 2 forms. 2019. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page discusses Bhutan's first economic census conducted with assistance from the World Bank. NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked National Statistics Bureau (nsb.gov.bt, incl. the Bhutan Interactive Data Portal) and the Department of Civil Registration and Census (dcrc.moha.gov.bt) for a live per-name existence/frequency oracle (Kosovo-ASK/Estonia-stat.ee shape). NSB publishes only static census PDFs and a welfare/secretariat data-portal; DCRC's site is service-forms-only (ID card, birth/death certificate applications) with no public name-search or count endpoint. No live per-name oracle found; not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

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: 2026-09-12.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Bhutan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/BT (data snapshot 2026-09-12).