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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]
Surname
- Lauren K. Soth (1910–1998), American journalist
- Bob Soth (born 1933), American long-distance runner
- Soth Polin (born 1943), Cambodian writer
- Soth Sun (born 1946), Cambodian boxer
- Alec Soth (born 1969), American photographer
Fictional characters:
- Lord Soth, in Dragonlance and Ravenloft
- Norman Soth, in the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Given name
- Soth Phetrasy (1915–2004), Lao Pathet official
- Chea Soth (1928–2012), Cambodian politician, MP for Prey Veng Province
- Mom Soth, Cambodian actor
See also
- Wilhelm Söth (1903–1978), German general of World War II
References
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