Entry № 2599 · Tibetan origin

Dolma Dolma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOHL-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tibetan
Meaning
"Liberator, the female Buddha"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Tibetan)

A name that means "liberator, the female buddha".

Dolma (སྒྲོལ་མ་) is the Tibetan name for Tara — the female bodhisattva, the "savior" or "liberator," beloved across Tibetan Buddhism. The Green Tara and White Tara are her most popular manifestations.

Dolma is widely used throughout Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and the Tibetan diaspora.

Liberator. The female Buddha of Tibet.

The name in its native script.

སྒྲོལ་མ་
Transliteration
sGrol ma
Pronunciation
/ ˈdoʊl.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dolma stands.

Dolma 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.

Dolmas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dolma
The Tibetan Tara.
Tibetan Buddhism

Names connected to Dolma.

The number behind Dolma.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dolma reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.