Phot
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phot is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 21Kas โพธิ(inferred from the name graph)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 5.3M
- FIFinland1 in 36Kas Poti
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 Phot itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3M (inferred from the name graph)
11,994 named Poti
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled โพ in TH Thailand, Pho in US United States and โพธิ in ID Indonesia.
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)
to cease, finish; to be or finished, to be dead; to be free from. to be out of sight
Sources 1
- Headley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Phot is read(measured from records)
Phot is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Thai39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Phot in Thai.
- English28%
A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese9.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Phot in Vietnamese.
- Khmer6.1%
to cease, finish; to be or finished, to be dead; to be free from. to be out of sight
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
to be unfaithful (of wife husband). {Th. phld.)
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phot 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | #360,376 | โพ | 71 |
| US United States | — | 1,333as Pho | 1 in 250K | 1.5K | Pho | 15 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | โพธิ | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 211as Poti | 1 in 1M | 211 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 154as Poti | 1 in 36K | 154 | — | 1 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 16as Pho | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Phot is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sit-pro, twist, wind
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Phot come from?
- to cease, finish; to be or finished, to be dead; to be free from. to be out of sight Recorded by Headley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ).
- Is Phot a male or female name?
- Phot is a male 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 Phot mean?
- In English, A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
- In which country does Phot have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Poti, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Phot?
- In India, the national register counted 11,994 people named Poti, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Phot compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Phot is the 883rd most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/photThe 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, “Phot” — the 883rd most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.