Soth

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

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

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.
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