Sokunthea is from the Khmer Sokuntheā — derived from Sanskrit sukanthā (sweet-voiced) or sundara (beautiful) with Khmer feminine elaboration. Sokunthea (modern Khmer pop) — the name appears widely in modern Cambodian popular music. Princess Sokunthea — modern Cambodian royal heritage naming.
and the Cambodian-American diaspora.
Sokunthea 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sokunthea reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.