Entry № 2591 · Tibetan origin

Dolkar Dolkar — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOHL-kar /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tibetan
Meaning
"White Tara (Tibetan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Tibetan)

A name that means "white tara (tibetan)".

Dolkar (སྒྲོལ་དཀར) is the Tibetan name of White Tara — the female bodhisattva of long life, healing, and serenity, and one of the most beloved deities of Tibetan Buddhism. Her white form represents compassion that liberates from suffering.

Used widely in Tibet and the Himalayas.

White Tara. The Tibetan bodhisattva of compassion.

The name in its native script.

སྒྲོལ་དཀར
Transliteration
Sgrol-dkar
Pronunciation
/ ˈdoʊl.kɑːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dolkar stands.

Dolkar 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.

Dolkars before her.

Real people
Dolkar
Common Tibetan name.
In fiction
Dolkar
Tibetan White Tara.
Tibetan Buddhism

Names connected to Dolkar.

The number behind Dolkar.

7

The Seeker

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