Villarroel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʎaɾoɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Villarroel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 21st most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 432(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 808
- CLChile≈1 in 890
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 432 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villarroel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #149 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 808 | — | Villarroel | 77 |
| BO Bolivia | #21 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 432 | — | Villarroel | 77 |
| CL Chile | #77 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 1 | Villarroel | 123 |
| AR Argentina | #364 | 17,722 | 1 in 2.6K | 18K | Villarroel | 77 |
| EC Ecuador | #768 | 4,065 | 1 in 4.2K | 4.1K | Villarroel | 40 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
- Gaspar de Villarroelb. 1587ECEcuadorian Roman Catholic prelate
- Antoni de Villarroelb. 1656ESSpanish general
- Diego de Torres Villarroelb. 1694ESSpanish writer
- Gualberto Villarroelb. 1908BOPresident of Bolivia (1908-1946)
- Fidel Villarroelb. 1929EShistorian
- Mario Villarroelb. 1947VEVenezuelan lawyer and professor
- Anamaría Fontb. 1959VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan physicist
- Francisco Villarroelb. 1965VEVenezuelan lawyer, writer and filmmaker
- Norkys Batistab. 1977VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan actress, model and former beauty pageant titleholder
- Luis Bethelmyb. 1986VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan basketball player (born 1986)
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 29 sources across 19 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
- How do you pronounce Villarroel?
- A machine transcription gives /biʎaɾoɛl/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Villarroel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Villarroel in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villarroel.
- How common is the name Villarroel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 17,722 people named Villarroel, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Villarroel compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Villarroel is the 149th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/villarroelThe 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, “Villarroel” — the 149th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.