Chantha

Meaning of Chantha

Chantha, a unisex appellation rooted in the lush realms of Cambodia and softly intoned as CHAN-tah (/tʃɑn.tʃɑ/), unfurls like a silken kimono drifting through bamboo shadows beneath a harvest moon in a Kyoto grove. It evokes both the quiet grandeur of ancient Khmer temples carved in honeyed sandstone and the hushed reverence of cherry blossoms at dawn, weaving lunar stillness and floral grace into a single, fluid syllable. Drawn from the Khmer word for “moon” or “beloved jewel,” Chantha casts a silvery glow that feels at once familiarly intimate and exotically uncharted—so rare that statisticians can’t help but raise an eyebrow at fewer than ten American newborns bearing its melody in any given year of the late 1980s. With its unisex elegance and cool, reflective calm, Chantha invites each bearer to tread a secret midnight path where every whispered syllable is a petal drifting on a calm, starlit breeze.

Pronunciation

Cambodian

• Pronunced as CHAN-tah (/tʃɑn.tʃɑ/)

• Chantrea
• Chanthou
• Chansophea
• Chanserey
• Chansokha
• Channary
• Chansina