Farias
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular conditional of fazer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/faɾiɐs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Farias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 336(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 539
- BRBrazil≈1 in 551
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- #543 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular conditional of fazer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #63 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 551 | 313 | Farias | 210 |
| AR Argentina | #83 | 84,304 | 1 in 539 | 84K | Farias | 108 |
| VE Venezuela | #189 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Farias | 74 |
| CL Chile | #154 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 883 | — | Farias | 121 |
| US United States | — | 16,153 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Farias | 327 |
| UY Uruguay | #56 | 10,078 | 1 in 336 | 10K | Farias | 54 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Farias 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.
principal places: Guimarães, Lima
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Valentín Gómez Faríasb. 1781MXPresident of Mexico (1781-1858)
- Rafael Urdanetab. 1788VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan General (1788-1845)
- Roberto Fariasb. 1932BRFilm director, Film producer, Screenwriter (1932–2018)
- Marcello Antonyb. 1965BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actor and film director
- Sérgio Fariasb. 1967BRBrazilian football manager (born 1967)
- César Faríasb. 1973VEVenezuelan manager
- Marcelo Sosab. 1978UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Diego Farias da Silvab. 1990BRBrazilian footballer
- Mailsonb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Facundo Faríasb. 2002ARArgentine footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 741K | #66 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 84K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,764 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 10K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Farias mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular conditional of fazer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Farias?
- A machine transcription gives /faɾiɐs/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Farias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 385 thousand people named Farias in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farias.
- Where is Farias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Farias is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 336 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Farias?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 84,304 people named Farias, about 1 in 539 residents.
- How common is Farias compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Farias is the 63rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fariasThe 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, “Farias” — the 63rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.