Sotheary
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sotheary has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1982. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Sotheary, 1988
1 in 462,000
Sotheary over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sotheary?
Sotheary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 462,000
- 8 of 3,694,212 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 320,080 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sotheary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 320,080 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sotheary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sothearys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sotheary was born before 1986 — so the typical Sotheary is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Sotheary rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1988 (8)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Where Sotheary is used
Across 1910–2025, Sotheary was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sotheary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sotheary around the world
Where Sotheary ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1985–1985#3,196in 1985
- South Australia1990–1993#712in 1993
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sotheary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sotheary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sotheary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.