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To be honest, all I remember is looking the name up in several places and finding at least three that said "unisex".

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I know it is used on girls today, rarely. So, it might just be a male name used unisexly in the modern world.

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I do know that some of the root verbs for the Hebrew translation are feminine, so that could lend to a female use of the name. In general it is reserved for boys, because of the historical concept of the "third son" in the Biblical Seth.

I'm guessing it's just because the ending makes it sound soft and/or gender-neutral to a lot of people.

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It rhymes with Beth, and most other names with -eth endings are feminine (Seth, Gareth, and Kenneth being the main exceptions).