Fotina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de photes, lumière. Fêtes : 13 (26) février, 20 mars (2 avril)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/fɔtˈinɑ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Fotina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 89Kas Фотина
- UAUkraine≈1 in 310Kfew recordsas Фотіна
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 Fotina 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named Фотина, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Фотина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Фотіна in UA Ukraine.
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
(measured from records)de photes, lumière. Fêtes : 13 (26) février, 20 mars (2 avril). Photine est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 20 mars, 20 août.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fotina is found
(measured from records)Fotina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 89K | listed | Фотина | 113 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Фотіна | 21 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Фотина | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 597K | — | Фотина | 19 |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 11 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 923K | — | Фотина | 8 |
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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fotina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Fotiniia.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Italian, small picture, thumbnail
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Fotina?
- In Albanian /fɔtˈinɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Fotina a male or female name?
- Fotina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Fotina mean?
- Recorded meaning: de photes, lumière. Fêtes : 13 (26) février, 20 mars (2 avril).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fotina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Фотина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fotina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fotina is densest in Poland — about 1 in 3.5 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fotina?
- In Poland, the national register counted 11 people named Fotina in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Fotina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fotinaThe 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, “Fotina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.