Soth

Not to be confused with South.
Soth
PronunciationEnglish: /ˈsoʊθ/[1]
Khmer: [sot]
Origin
MeaningEnglish: "truth", "justice"
Khmer: "clean", "pure", "white"
Other names
Variant form(s)Sooth

Soth is a surname in various cultures, as well as a given name in Southeast Asia.

Origins

As a Khmer name (Khmer: សុទ្ធ, Sŏtth [sot]), Soth originates from a word meaning "clean", "pure", or "white". That word originated from Sanskrit śuddha.[2] The English surname Soth comes from Middle English soth meaning "truth" or "justice", and can be found in records in England dating back to the 13th century.[3]

Statistics

The 2010 United States Census found 662 people with the surname Soth, making it the 34,272nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 621 (34,503rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, slightly more than three-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and one-third as White.[4]

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See also

References

  1. ^ Rooney, Terrie M., ed. (1999). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 165. Gale Research International. p. 363. ISBN 9780787620028. SOTH, Lauren (Kephart), 1910–1998 ... Surname rhymes with 'both'.
  2. ^ Keo Chanbo. "English-Khmer Dictionary". Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2492. ISBN 9780192527479.
  4. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 27 November 2018.