Villacorta

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/biʎakoɾta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Villacorta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Villacorta. This surname is predominantly found in Peru.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.7K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.9K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

Sources
199 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 940 (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Villacorta. This surname is predominantly found in Peru.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Villacorta 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.

Where Villacorta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#271≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Villacorta95
PH Philippines#615≈11,000 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Villacorta69
AR Argentina#9904,4691 in 10K4.5KVillacorta53
SV El Salvador#313≈2,400 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Villacorta45
ES Spain—1,7731 in 28K1.8KVillacorta99
RE Réunion#437≈840 est.≈1 in 940—Villacorta1

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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Villacorta is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Uzbek surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Uzbek, Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Vïlläcörtä

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Villacortá

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Villa-Corta

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Bolivia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вильякорта

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

17001800190020002100José Simeón Cañas y Villacorta, b. 1767José Damián Villacorta, b. 1796José Domingo Estrada, b. 1855Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, b. 1933Jorge Villacorta, b. 1958Cecilia Tait, b. 1962Sidney Guzman, b. 1977Josepmir Ballón, b. 1988Anderson Villacorta, b. 2005

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)

FormalEstimado/a Villacorta,Dear Villacorta, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Villacorta,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Villacorta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—4.5K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#2,682
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#2,682

Reference works 2

  • 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 Villacorta mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Villacorta. This surname is predominantly found in Peru. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Villacorta?
A machine transcription gives /biʎakoɾta/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Villacorta have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Villacorta in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villacorta.
How common is the name Villacorta?
In Argentina, the national register counted 4,469 people named Villacorta, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Villacorta compared with other names?
In Peru, Villacorta is the 271st most common surname of 173,371 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, “Villacorta” — the 271st most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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