Vilar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: hamlet (small village)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vilar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 572as Villar
- ESSpain1 in 1.6Kas Villar
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 Vilar 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
32,145 named Villar
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from the 10th to the 12th century, territory annexed or belonging to a settlement and which had some habitat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vilar is read(measured from records)
Vilar is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vilar in Spanish.
- Portuguese35%
hamlet (small village)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vilar in English.
- Catalan7.1%
from the 10th to the 12th century, territory annexed or belonging to a settlement and which had some habitat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vilar in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vilar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #498 | 32,145as Villar | 1 in 1.6K | 32K | Vilar | 152 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16,029as Villar | 1 in 2.8K | 16K | Vilar | 65 |
| BR Brazil | #559 | 5,970as Villar | 1 in 35K | 6K | Vilar | 131 |
| UY Uruguay | #370 | 5,922as Villar | 1 in 572 | 5.9K | Vilar | 35 |
| US United States | — | 5,530as Villar | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Vilar | 178 |
| PT Portugal | #354 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Vilar | 72 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 98 | 1 in 21K | 98 | Vilar | 6 |
32,145 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling villar. 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: 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vilar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, present indicative of vila
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, hamlet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, francuski glumac i redatelj; obnovom Nacionalnog pučkog kazališta edukacijski i kreativno utjecao na život u Francuskoj
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Vilarb. 1906FRFrench historian (1906-2003)
- Jean Vilarb. 1912FRFrench theatre director and actor (1912–1971)
- Antonio Vilarb. 1912PTactor (1912-1995)
- Esther Vilarb. 1935ARArgentine writer
- Marcelo Vilarb. 1961BRBrazilian association football player (1961-)
- Carlos Alcántarab. 1964PEnot in their usual namePeruvian actor and comedian
- Tracy Vilarb. 1968USAmerican actress
- Federico Vilarb. 1977ARArgentine footballer
- Francisc Martínezb. 1988ADnot in their usual nameAndorran association football player
- Bernardo Vilarb. 1998BRBrazilian association football player
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23K | #729 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #638 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.7K | #638 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 697 | #34,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 594 | #37,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 514 | #40,139 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 98 | #4,493 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Vilar come from?
- from the 10th to the 12th century, territory annexed or belonging to a settlement and which had some habitat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Vilar mean?
- In Portuguese, hamlet (small village)
- In which country does Vilar have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Villar, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vilar?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 98 people named Vilar, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Vilar compared with other names?
- In Spain, Vilar is the 498th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilarThe 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, “Vilar” — the 498th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.