Villafañe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʎafaɲɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Villafañe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 2K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 20K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 23K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 230 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
22,377 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Villafane in US United States, PR Puerto Rico.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villafañe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #308 | 22,377 | 1 in 2K | 22K | Villafañe | 66 |
| US United States | — | 2,454 | 1 in 136K | 2.5K | Villafane | 230 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 3 | Villafañe | 42 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #120 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Villafane | 29 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Villafañe | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 71 | 1 in 48K | 71 | Villafañe | 5 |
22,377 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benjamín Villafañeb. 1814ARArgentinian politician (1814-1893)
- Benjamín Villafañe Chavesb. 1877ARArgentinian lawyer and politician (1877-1952)
- Chunchuna Villafañeb. 1934ARArgentine actress
- Juana Molinab. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer-songwriter and actress
- Claudia Villafañeb. 1962ARbusinesswoman and producer Argentine
- Inés Molinab. 1964ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress
- Enrique Cáceresb. 1970PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan football referee
- Dalma Maradonab. 1987ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress
- Ana Villafañeb. 1989USAmerican actress and singer
- Alejandra Villafañeb. 1989COColombian actress and model, 1989-2023
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 22K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Villafañe?
- A machine transcription gives /biʎafaɲɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Villafañe have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Villafañe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villafañe.
- Where is Villafañe most common?
- Villafañe is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Villafañe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 22,377 people named Villafañe, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Villafañe compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Villafañe is the 308th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Villafañe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/villafa%C3%B1eThe 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, “Villafañe” — the 308th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.