Girl · Greek
Fotini
Say it: foh-TEE-nee
Meaning
From Greek phos 'light'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 385 babies given this name since 1969
- At its height in 1984, about 1 in 93,500 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Fofo
Famous bearers
- Saint Photine, the Samaritan woman of Orthodox tradition
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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