Farine

surname · Latin script

Meaning: flour, specifically wheat flour

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/faʁin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Farine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3.1M(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
  • BEBelgium1 in 286K

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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

516 people, 2024

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

flour, specifically wheat flour

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Farine 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 Farine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland5161 in 16K516Farine21
BR Brazil1741 in 1.2M174——
US United States1091 in 3.1M120Farine103
BE Belgium411 in 286K41Farine6
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

516 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

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

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fariñe, Fariñé

31 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)

Farine 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 fur, 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)

190019502000Philippe Farine, b. 1917Pierre Farine, b. 1940Bruno Farine, b. 1956Marc Farine, b. 1957François-Xavier Farine, b. 1971Simon Farine, b. 1987Nicolas Farine, b. 2000

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Farine, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Farine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024516#2,497
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—174#41,199
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020120#142,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000112#137,816
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010109#150,452
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200841#30,109
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#259,881
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#242,501
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Farine mean, and where does it come from?
flour, specifically wheat flour Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Farine?
A machine transcription gives /faʁin/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Farine have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 516 people named Farine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled farine.
Where is Farine most common?
Farine is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Farine?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 516 people named Farine in 2024, about 1 in 16 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, “Farine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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