Făină

surname · Latin script

Meaning: flour (ground cereal grains)

Făină is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
  • MDMoldova1 in 14K
  • FIFinland1 in 109K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,496 people, 2020

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Faina in US United States.

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)

flour (ground cereal grains)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Făină 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.

Where Făină is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,4961 in 222K1.5KFaina16
LV Latvia3811 in 4.9K381——
MD Moldova2411 in 14K241—4
PL Poland1971 in 194K197——
ES Spain1351 in 370K135—4
FI Finland511 in 109K183——

1,496 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); e-services.md — living population register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Făină is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Faina, Faiña, Faíña, Faïna, ფაინა

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

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

What does the name Făină mean, and where does it come from?
flour (ground cereal grains) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Făină have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Făină, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled faina.
Where is Făină most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Făină is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Făină?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,496 people named Făină in 2020, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.

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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, “Făină”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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