Entry № 9938 · Khmer origin

Sothea Sothea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-TAY-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Khmer
Meaning
"Perfect, accomplished (Khmer)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Khmer)

A name that means "perfect, accomplished (khmer)".

Sothea (សុធា) means "perfect" or "accomplished" in Khmer — also borrowed from the Sanskrit sudhā (nectar, ambrosia). A traditional Cambodian feminine name.

Used widely in modern Cambodia.

Perfect. The Khmer.

The name in its native script.

សុធា
Transliteration
Sothea
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈθeɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sothea stands.

Sothea 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.

Sotheas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sothea
Common in Cambodian literature.

Names connected to Sothea.

The number behind Sothea.

5

The Seeker

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