Fariñas

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

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

Fariñas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Galician Fariñas. Surname originating from Ourense, Galicia.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 19K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

2,668 people

Record sources
211 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

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 Farinas in US United States, PH Philippines, ID Indonesia.

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)

From Galician Fariñas. Surname originating from Ourense, Galicia.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Fariñas 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 Fariñas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—2,6681 in 19K2.7KFariñas73
ID Indonesia—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 106K—Farinas3
VE Venezuela—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 12K—Fariñas24
PH Philippines—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 54K—Farinas51
US United States—1,5991 in 208K1.7KFarinas211
BO Bolivia—≈330 est.≈1 in 35K—Fariñas16
NI Nicaragua#811≈160 est.≈1 in 38K—Fariñas12
UY Uruguay—1541 in 22K154Fariñas9

2,668 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; 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)

Fariñas is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Farinas

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

    Also written Farinas

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Farinas

28 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)

Fariñas 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.

  • In Iloko, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], common in Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte

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

  • In Galician, a surname, originating in Ourense

    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)
18501900195020002050Betshabé Salmón Fariñas, b. 1899Enrique Martínez Fariñas, b. 1925José Besteiro Fariñas, b. 1930Carlos Fariñas, b. 1934Francisco Fariñas, b. 1950Rodolfo Fariñas, b. 1951Guillermo Fariñas, b. 1962Jano, b. 1986Brian Fariñas, b. 2006

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)
FormalEstimado/a Fariñas,Dear Fariñas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Fariñas,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Fariñas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.7K#1,909
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.7K#1,909

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 Fariñas mean, and where does it come from?
From Galician Fariñas. Surname originating from Ourense, Galicia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Fariñas?
A machine transcription gives /faɾiɲas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Fariñas have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Fariñas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fariñas.
How common is the name Fariñas?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,668 people named Fariñas, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Fariñas compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Fariñas is the 811th most common surname of 5,756 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, “Fariñas” — the 811th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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