Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Fotios isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fotios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 93
- 93 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,641 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,641 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 375 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fotios’s family of names
In Turkish usage, Fotios has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Focjusz.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fotios
- Photios I of Constantinople9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople820–900
- Photius II of Constantinople265th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople1874–1935
- Patriarch Photius of AlexandriaGreek Patriarch of Alexandria (1853-1925)
- PhotiosByzantine renegade and admiral of the Emirate of Crete
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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