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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from the Greek personal name Photios, a derivative of Greek phōs ‘light’ (genitive phōtos).
  • Hungarian (Fóti) : habitational name for someone from a village called Fót in Pest county.

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