Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tsering through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 118
- 33 boys · 85 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 17 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 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,817 as a first name in 2020; 931 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tsering’s family of names
In English usage, Tsering was borrowed from the Tibetan form ཚེ་རིང.
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 Tsering
- Tsering WoeserTibetan activist, blogger, poet and essayist in Chinaborn 1966
- Tsering Rhitar SherpaNepalese filmmakerborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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