Tibetan origin
Source-reportedMeaning: “mind + good”
Borrowed from Tibetan བློ་བཟང (blo bzang).
Sources for this account (2)
- Wiktionary: LobsangCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Wiktionary (en): བློ་བཟངCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-16
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“mind + good”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Lobsang is a masculine given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Tibetan བློ་བཟང. It is a form of བློ་བཟང, for which English Wiktionary gives the components mind + good.
Meaning: “mind + good”
Borrowed from Tibetan བློ་བཟང (blo bzang).
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United States, 2015: 6 boys (rank 10644). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
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2000–2025 Spelling: Lobsang
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | 2 | 1,275 | observed |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 1 | 1,638 | observed |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | 1 | 1,719 | observed |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,797 | observed |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | 3 | 1,414 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Lobsang” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.