Foti Family History
Foti Name Meaning
Italian (southern mainly Sicily and Calabria): from the Greek personal name Phōtēs Phōtios a derivative of Greek phōs (genitive phōtos) ‘light’; compare Greek Fotis . Hungarian (Fóti): habitational name for someone from a village called Fót in Pest County. American shortened form of Greek Fotis or of any of various derivatives of this name. Albanian: from the personal name Foti derived from Greek phōs (genitive phōtos) ‘light’; compare 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022