Villa

loc · Spanish · Latin script

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

Villa is a name, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 75◐
  • PEPeru1 in 171
  • NINicaragua1 in 192

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈156K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
351 ●

773K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 851 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

VillaLatin · Spanish●1.1M records
ᲕილაGeorgian · Georgian●3 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dorf in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

(i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Villa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru493,86762K rec.——Villa70
MX Mexico237,166333K rec.—2.4KVilla207
PY Paraguay231,0132.3K rec.——Villa22
US United States52,817114K rec.1 in 6.3K53KDorf351
ES Spain34,05632K rec.1 in 1.5K34KVilla175
DO Dominican Republic28,6432.5K rec.——Villa40
BR Brazil26,793△8.8K rec.1 in 7.9K27KVilla130
AR Argentina20,12388K rec.1 in 2.3K20KVilla107
EC Ecuador19,859△591 rec.1 in 85120K—52
CO Colombia18,14228K rec.—25Villa154
NI Nicaragua12,511100 rec.——Villa14
BO Bolivia10,2221.9K rec.——Villa38

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.1M26%
  • English431K10%
  • Hindi6.6K1%
  • Arabic6.2K1%
  • Italian4.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,081,57426%
English430,87310%
Hindi6,5561%
Arabic6,2131%
Italian4,5561%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Villa is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname310K records spelled Villa40 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vill, Villà, Vïllä, Villå, Villá

  • French surname41K records spelled Villa21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Senegal, Gabon

    Also written Vill, Dorf, Villà, Víllà, Villä

  • a separate name24K records spelled Villa3 spellings in the group

    Also written Villà, Villá

  • Italian name14K records spelled Villa10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Dorf, Vill, Vìlla, Viĺla, Víllá

  • Hindi given name8.3K records spelled Villa8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Vîllä, Víllá, Vïllä, Villà

  • Malay name6.2K records spelled Villa9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Viļļa, Vîll, Vill, Villà, Dorf

  • Thai surname4.5K records spelled Villa58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written วัลลา, Villar, วิลล่า, นวลลา, Vella

  • Swahili name3.8K records spelled Villa4 spellings in the group

    Also written Vill, Villà

  • Finnish name3.8K records spelled Villa12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Vill, Víllâ, Dorf, Víllá, Villã

62 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●

Villa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

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

  • In Spanish, small town

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

  • vila; village; Brasil, Portugal

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, do lat. villa; indica habitante de vila ou povoado rural

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Pancho, Mexican revolutionary &

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000455 · 1995

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Villa in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19007
19012
19031
19052
19066
19075
19086
190911
191012
191114
191215
191316
191414
191515
191617
191717
191814
191915
192020
192123
192228
192330
192422
192532
192634
192726
192830
192942
193055
193146
193237
193357
193446
193558
193649
193748
193853
193968
194069
194159
194262
194365
194466
194578
194673
194790
194888
194975
195083
195190
195290
195386
195493
1955106
1956109
1957111
1958104
1959134
1960116
1961141
1962140
1963162
1964164
1965184
1966224
1967179
1968172
1969177
1970209
1971206
1972207
1973212
1974204
1975230
1976192
1977264
1978255
1979258
1980248
1981238
1982256
1983293
1984271
1985295
1986257
1987274
1988278
1989277
1990284
1991301
1992320
1993280
1994278
1995455
1996281
1997262
1998349
1999337
2000347
2001307
2002312
2003336
2004311
2005293
2006305
2007344
2008374
2009354
2010313
2011349
2012358
2013333
2014287
2015306
2016239
2017276
2018273
2019268
2020240
2021245
2022236
2023232
2024167

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 123 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Heitor Villa-Lobos, b. 1887Rodolfo Martín Villa, b. 1934Ricardo Villa, b. 1952Marco Villa, b. 1969David Villa, b. 1981Emanuel Villa, b. 1982Alba Flores, b. 1986Mateus Uribe, b. 1991Fernando Calero Villa, b. 1995

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●

Attested in 53 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Villa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201053K#644
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202051K#653
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200039K#797
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—20K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202420K#216
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—19K#285
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19K#285
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.2K#1,402
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—2.4K#159
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—836#4,537
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—673#5,301
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024542#2,370

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 402 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Villa?
We estimate roughly 156 thousand people bear Villa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Villa have the most bearers?
Villa is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled villa.
What does the name Villa mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Villa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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