Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lobsang through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 631 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lobsang’s family of names
In English usage, Lobsang was borrowed from the Tibetan form བློ་བཟང. In Classical Mongolian usage, Lobsang is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ᠯᠣᠪᠰᠠᠩ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lobsang
- Lobsang RampaEnglish writer (1910-1981)
- Lobsang TenzinTibetan Buddhist monk and politicianborn 1939
- 6th Jebtsundamba KhutughtuLeading Buddhist in Mongolia1842–1848
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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