Farina
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Farina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In English, recorded as A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fariña in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, ES Spain and 1 more.
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)
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Farina is read(measured from records)
Farina is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English40%
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish28%
obsolete spelling of harina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Farina in Portuguese.
- Italian7.3%
do lat. farina; moageiro ou mercador de farinha.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.8%
third-person singular past historic of fariner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Farina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #151 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 1 | Farina | 160 |
| AR Argentina | #424 | 9,138 | 1 in 5K | 9.1K | Fariña | 94 |
| ES Spain | #913 | 7,103 | 1 in 7K | 7.1K | Fariña | 88 |
| PY Paraguay | #121 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Fariña | 33 |
| US United States | — | 5,633 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Farina | 332 |
| UY Uruguay | #293 | 1,555 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.6K | Fariña | 26 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Farina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
flour; principal place: Milano
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Latin, ground corn, flour, meal
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)
- Johann Maria Farinab. 1685ITItalian perfumer and inventor (1685–1766)
- Salvatore Farinab. 1846ITItalian writer and journalist (1846–1918)
- Battista Pininfarinab. 1893ITnot in their usual nameItalian automobile designer (1893–1966)
- Giuseppe Farinab. 1906ITItalian racecar driver (1906-1966)
- Raffaele Farinab. 1933ITCatholic cardinal
- Dennis Farinab. 1944USAmerican actor (1944–2013)
- Felice Farinab. 1954ITItalian film director
- Salvatore Farinab. 1957ITItalian soldier
- Gianluca Farinab. 1962ITItalian rower
- Frank Farinab. 1964AUAustralian soccer player
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 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,088 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.4K | #5,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,451 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.6K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 295 | #12,226 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 295 | #12,198 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Farina mean, and where does it come from?
- A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Farina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Farina in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farina.
- How common is the name Farina?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 9,138 people named Farina, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Farina compared with other names?
- In Italy, Farina 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, “Farina” — the 151st most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.