Villaverde
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a habitational surname
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʎaβerðe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Villaverde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 6.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 7.1K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
7,739 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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)
a habitational surname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villaverde 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 | #705 | 7,739 | 1 in 6.5K | 7.7K | Villaverde | 147 |
| AR Argentina | #716 | 6,384 | 1 in 7.1K | 6.4K | Villaverde | 72 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Villaverde | 47 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Villaverde | 54 |
| PY Paraguay | #271 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Villaverde | 18 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 574 | 1 in 5.9K | 574 | Villaverde | 29 |
7,739 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); 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)
Villaverde is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, composto de Villa e Verde; habitante de lugar de mesmo nome
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)
- Cirilo Villaverdeb. 1812CUCuban writer (1812-1894)
- Ramón Alberto Villaverdeb. 1930UYUruguayan footballer (1930–1986)
- Manolo Villaverdeb. 1934CUCuban actor
- Manuel Velázquezb. 1943ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (1943-2016)
- Hugo Villaverdeb. 1954ARArgentine footballer (1954–2024)
- Xavier Villaverdeb. 1958ESSpanish film director (born 1958)
- Clemente Villaverde Huelgab. 1959ESSpanish soccer player
- Francisco Alonso Villaverdeb. 1963ESSpanish writer and editor (born 1963)
- Teresa Villaverdeb. 1966PTPortuguese film director (born 1966)
- Andrea Villaverdeb. 1995VEVenezuelan actress
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.7K | #712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.7K | #712 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 574 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Villaverde mean, and where does it come from?
- a habitational surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Villaverde?
- A machine transcription gives /biʎaβerðe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Villaverde have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Villaverde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villaverde.
- How common is the name Villaverde?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,739 people named Villaverde, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Villaverde compared with other names?
- In Spain, Villaverde is the 705th 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/villaverdeThe 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, “Villaverde” — the 705th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.