Villamizar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Villamizar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Villamizar. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.5K
- ESSpain1 in 35K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Villamizar. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villamizar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #217 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 23 | Villamizar | 146 |
| VE Venezuela | #202 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Villamizar | 68 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,410 | 1 in 35K | 1.4K | Villamizar | 75 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Villamizar | 42 |
| US United States | — | 602 | 1 in 553K | 858 | Villamizar | 186 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 82 | 1 in 41K | 82 | — | 3 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mónica Villamizarb. 1901COColombian journalist
- Tulio Chiossoneb. 1905VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician
- María Ofélia Villamizar Buitragob. 1921COColombian poet
- Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizarb. 1929VEVenezuelan priest
- Eladio Lárezb. 1941VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan businessman
- William Villamizar Laguadob. 1965COColombian politician
- Luis Gabriel Reyb. 1980COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Paola Villamizarb. 1994VEassociation football player
- Yeferson Contrerasb. 1999COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Vianey VillamizarUSVenezuelan American mathematics professor
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(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
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
- What does the name Villamizar mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Villamizar. This surname is mostly found in Colombia. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Villamizar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Villamizar in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villamizar.
- How common is the name Villamizar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,410 people named Villamizar, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Villamizar compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Villamizar is the 217th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Villamizar” — the 217th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.