Fariña

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Fariña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: obsolete form of harina.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 2.2K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 4K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
332 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FariñaLatin(measured from records)
ฟารีนาThai(measured from records)
ФарназCyrillic(measured from records)
ΦαρίναGreek(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Farina in US United States, IT Italy.

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)

obsolete form of harina

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fariña 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 Fariña is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#151≈16,000 est.≈1 in 4K1Farina160
AR Argentina#4249,1381 in 5K9.1KFariña94
ES Spain#9137,1031 in 7K7.1KFariña88
PY Paraguay#121≈6,400 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Fariña33
US United States—5,6331 in 59K5.6KFarina332
UY Uruguay#2931,5551 in 2.2K1.6KFariña26

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fariña is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Farína, Farina

  • Hindi surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Malaysia, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Farina, ফারিনা, Farin̄a, Farìna

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Farina, Fàrinâ

  • Ukrainian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Фарина, Фаріна, Farina

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Farina

  • Croatian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Paraguay

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Farina, Фарина, Fãřîñą

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fariña 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.

  • In Asturian, flour

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1900195020002050Ernesto Fariña, b. 1912Richard Fariña, b. 1937Carmen Fariña, b. 1942Soledad Fariña Vicuña, b. 1943Juliana Fariña González, b. 1946Almudena Fernández Fariña, b. 1970Sheyla Fariña, b. 1986Luis Fariña, b. 1991Edgardo Fariña, b. 2001Romeo Benítez, b. 2002

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 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Fariña
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—9.1K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—7.1K#776
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.1K#776

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Fariña mean, and where does it come from?
obsolete form of harina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Fariña have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Fariña in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farina.
How common is the name Fariña?
In Argentina, the national register counted 9,138 people named Fariña, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Fariña compared with other names?
In Italy, Fariña is the 151st most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Fariña” — the 151st most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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