Entry № 10457 · Tibetan origin

Tenzin Tenzin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEN-zin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tibetan
Meaning
"Holder of teachings (Tenzin Palmo; Dalai Lama's name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Tibetan)

A name that means "holder of teachings (tenzin palmo; dalai lama's name)".

Tenzin (བསྟན་འཛིན་) is from the Tibetan bstan 'dzin — "holder of the (Buddhist) teachings" — a name traditionally bestowed by senior lamas. It is the personal name of His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (born 1935) — though this entry covers the feminine usage. Founded the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in 2000 in Himachal Pradesh, India — providing rigorous Buddhist education to women that had been denied to them for centuries.

Holder of teachings.

The name in its native script.

བསྟན་འཛིན་
Transliteration
bstan 'dzin
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛn.zɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tenzin stands.

Tenzin does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tenzins before her.

Real people
Tenzin Palmo
British-Tibetan Buddhist nun.
born 1943
Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama (male).
born 1935
In fiction
Tenzin
Various Tibetan literature.

Names connected to Tenzin.

The number behind Tenzin.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tenzin reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.