Entry № 6148 · Tibetan origin

Machig Machig — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-cheek /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tibetan
Meaning
"Tibetan female yogi (founded Chöd practice)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Tibetan)

A name that means "tibetan female yogi (founded chöd practice)".

Machig (མ་གཅིག་) means "one mother." Machig Labdrön (1055-1149) was the Tibetan female yogi who founded the Chöd ("cutting through") practice — one of the few major Tibetan Buddhist lineages founded by a woman. Considered an emanation of the dakini Vajrayogini.

Subject of The Life of Machig Labdrön (12th-c. biography).

Tibetan female yogi (founded Chöd practice) — a Tibetan name.

The name in its native script.

མ་གཅིག་
Transliteration
ma gcig
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.tʃɪk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Machig stands.

Machig 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.

Machigs before her.

Real people
Machig Labdrön
Tibetan founder of Chöd.
1055 – 1149
In fiction
Machig
Life of Machig Labdrön.

Names connected to Machig.

The number behind Machig.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Machig reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.