Fotios
#12,637 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fotios has been given to 93 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,637 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Fotios, 2025
1 in 663,000
Fotios over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Fotios?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,637
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fotios sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fotios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Fotioss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fotios was born before 1978 — so the typical Fotios is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 52.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 93
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Fotios 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 1969 (9)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Fotios
Fotios is not the most common spelling — Otis is, with 99.8% against Fotios's 0.15%.
- Otis99.8%61,082
- Fotios0.15%93
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Fotios around the world
Where Fotios 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.
- South Australia1956–2007#437in 2007
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Fotios by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fotios
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fotios
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.