Photi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Photi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- THThailand≈1 in 20Kas โพธิ
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Photi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
11,994 named Poti
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pho in US United States, GB United Kingdom, โพ in TH Thailand and Phot in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Photi is found
(measured from records)Photi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 11,994as Poti | 1 in 111K | 12K | Phot | 5 |
| TH Thailand | #883 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | register #360,376 | โพ | 71 |
| US United States | — | 1,333as Pho | 1 in 250K | 1.5K | Pho | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 211as Poti | 1 in 1M | 211 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 154as Poti | 1 in 36K | 154 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 76 | Pho | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16as Pho | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
11,994 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling poti. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Photi?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Poti, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, United States, Brazil and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Photi?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Photi in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Photi compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Photi is the 883rd most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Photi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/photiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Photi” — the 883rd most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.