Villa
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: small town
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʝa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Villa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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 Villa 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)
Locally spelled 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)
(i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Villa is read(measured from records)
Villa is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish26%
small town
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
(i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Pancho, Mexican revolutionary &
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
Villa 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Villa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
vila; village; Brasil, Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. villa; indica habitante de vila ou povoado rural
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Heitor Villa-Lobosb. 1887BRBrazilian composer (1887–1959)
- Rodolfo Martín Villab. 1934ESSpanish politician and businessman
- Ricardo Villab. 1952ARArgentine footballer
- Marco Villab. 1969ITItalian cyclist
- David Villab. 1981ESSpanish footballer
- Emanuel Villab. 1982ARArgentine footballer
- Alba Floresb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Mateus Uribeb. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Fernando Calero Villab. 1995ESassociation football player
- Matt VillaAUAustralian film editor
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 56 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 53K | #644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 51K | #653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 39K | #797 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 20K | #216 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 19K | #285 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19K | #285 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.2K | #1,402 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 167 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 25 | #91 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Villa come from?
- (i) ‘person from Villa’, a Spanish place-name meaning ‘outlying farmstead’; (ii) ‘person who lives in a village or town’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What does the name Villa mean?
- In Spanish, small town
- How do you pronounce Villa?
- A machine transcription gives /biʝa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Villa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 53 thousand people named Villa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villa-.
- Where is Villa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Villa 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 Villa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,817 people named Villa in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Villa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/villaThe 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, “Villa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.