Entry № 9914 · Khmer origin

Sopheap Sopheap — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-PEEP /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Khmer
Meaning
"Gentle, well-mannered"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Khmer)

A name that means "gentle, well-mannered".

Sopheap is the Khmer (Cambodian) word for "gentle," "polite," or "well-mannered." Used widely as a name in Cambodia.

Sopheap Pich (born 1971) is the renowned Cambodian sculptor.

Gentle. The Cambodian virtue.

The name in its native script.

សុភាព
Transliteration
Sophēap
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈpiːp /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sopheap stands.

Sopheap 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.

Sopheaps before her.

Real people
Sopheap Pich
Cambodian sculptor.
born 1971
In fiction
Sopheap
Common in Cambodian fiction.

Names connected to Sopheap.

The number behind Sopheap.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sopheap reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.