Farina

Family name origins & meanings

• Italian : from farina ‘wheat flour’ (Latin farina), a metonymic occupational name for a miller or flour merchant. In some cases it may also have been a nickname for someone with a pale complexion.
• Galician and Asturian-Leonese (Fariña) : from Galician and Asturian-Leonese fariña ‘wheat flour’ (Latin farina; compare 1).
• Possibly also Catalan : from farina ‘flour’ (from Latin farina; compare 1).