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The surname Foti

An Italian surname, carried by 2,690 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F300

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foti is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Foti.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,690 people named Foti in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,775 Americans. That is down 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,769.

#11,653
rank among US surnames
2,690
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
-2.9%
change since 2000 (was #10,622)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,644Danford2,692114,690
#11,648Urso2,691114,733
#11,653Foti2,690114,775
#11,659DiSanto2,689114,818

Who is named Foti

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Foti identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Foti

Foti has the Soundex code F300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F300.

Other Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Foti come from?
Borrowed from Italian Foti.
How common is the surname Foti?
2,690 people in the United States had the surname Foti in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,775 Americans. It ranked 11,653rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Foti?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Foti identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Foti getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,769 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,690 in 2010, down 2.9%.