Sonam

For the American electronics company called SONAM, see Sony Corporation of America.

Sonam is a given name commonly used in North Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese and Bhutanese cultures. It is a Tibetan name meaning "merit" (Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས, Wylie: bsod nams, ZYPY: Soinam).[1] Separately, it is also a name in various Indo-Aryan languages (Devanagari script: सोनम).

People with this name include:

  1. ^ Buswell, Robert E. Jr.; Lopez, Donald S. Jr. (2013). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press. p. 1232. ISBN 9780691157863.