Entry № 1581 · Khmer origin

Bopha Bopha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Khmer
Meaning
"Flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Khmer)

A name that means "flower".

Bopha is the Khmer (Cambodian) word for "flower." Used as a given name throughout Cambodia.

Bopha is rare outside the Cambodian diaspora but distinctive.

Flower. The Khmer word.

The name in its native script.

Bopha
Transliteration
Bopha
Pronunciation
/ ˈboʊ.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bopha stands.

Bopha 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.

Bophas before her.

Real people
Bopha Devi
Cambodian princess and dancer.
1943 – 2019
In fiction

Names connected to Bopha.

The number behind Bopha.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bopha reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.