Villà
surname · Latin script
Villà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of ville.
- COColombia≈1 in 993(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Villà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- 1 in 851 (inferred from the name graph)
52,817 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Villa in AR Argentina, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 1 more and Villa- in US United States.
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)
- Italianvilla(measured from records)
- Latinvīlla“country house”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of ville.
Sources 7
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villà 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 52,817 | 1 in 6.3K | 53K | Villa- | 387 |
| CO Colombia | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 993 | 25 | Villa | 165 |
| ES Spain | 34,056as Vila | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Villa | 191 |
| BR Brazil | 26,793as Vila | 1 in 7.9K | 27K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 20,123 | 1 in 2.3K | 20K | Villa | 115 |
| EC Ecuador | 19,859 | 1 in 851 | 20K | — | 52 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Villa | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | 4,088as Vila | 1 in 829 | 4.1K | — | 44 |
52,817 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling villa. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Villà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of ville. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Villà have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Villà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villa-.
- Where is Villà most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Villà is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 851 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Villà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,817 people named Villà in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vill%C3%A0The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Villà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.