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Fotini

#13,771 in 2025Girls' name

Bright, shining

Fotini has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #13,771 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Fotini, 2025

1 in 553,000

Fotini over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fotini: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fotini means

Fotini means “bright, shining”, associated with phōteinós.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Greek Φωτεινή (Foteiní), from Ancient Greek φωτεινός (phōteinós, “bright, shining”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Fotini (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Fotini is used in English.

Fotini comes through Greek Φωτεινή and Ancient Greek φωτεινός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Φωτεινή.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 416 girls were recorded with the name Fotini between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,209 in 1984.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #17,341 in 2015 to #13,771 in 2025.

How common is Fotini?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,771
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fotini sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fotini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fotinis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fotini was born before 1987 — so the typical Fotini is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
416
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Fotini rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+268
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,570
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1984 (18)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,209
1984

Where Fotini is used

Across 1910–2025, Fotini was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 211,973 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fotini has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fotini around the world

Where Fotini ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1970–1970
    #2,249
    in 1970
  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #2,002
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1945–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fotini by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,209
1984
Peak year
1984
18 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
416
Count in 2025
6

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Sibling names for Fotini

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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