Villegas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/biˈʃe.ɣ̞as/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Villegas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 74th most common surname. Recorded meaning: provinces of Albacete and Burgos, so called from Sp. villa settlement (see Ville) + the personal name Egas Var.: Villagrasa.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 269(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 520
- CLChile≈1 in 750
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 Villegas 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #694 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- 1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)provinces of Albacete and Burgos, so called from Sp. villa settlement (see Ville) + the personal name Egas Var.: Villagrasa. Viiaita Catalan: habitation name from any of various places, for example in the province of Lerida, so called from Cat. vila settlement (see Ville) + alta (fern.) high Vilaseca Catalan: habitation name from places in the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona, so called from Cat. Vila settlement (see Ville) + seca (fern.) dry (L sicca). (see ViEGAs).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Villegas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #117 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 759 | 3.3K | Villegas | 238 |
| PH Philippines | #139 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Villegas | 113 |
| VE Venezuela | #90 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | — | Villegas | 90 |
| CO Colombia | #169 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 999 | 27 | Villegas | 165 |
| US United States | — | 48,599 | 1 in 6.8K | 49K | Villegas | 417 |
| CL Chile | #209 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 746 | — | Villegas | 122 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 20,413 | 1 in 828 | 20K | Villegas | 56 |
| CR Costa Rica | #74 | 18,950 | 1 in 269 | 19K | Villegas | 88 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)- Micaela Villegasb. 1748PEPeruvian actress
- José Villegas Corderob. 1844ESSpanish painter (1844–1921)
- Benito Villegasb. 1877ARArgentine chess player (1877-1952)
- José Villegasb. 1934MXMexican footballer (1934-2021)
- José Manuel Villegas Pérezb. 1968ESSpanish politician
- Eruviel Ávila Villegasb. 1969MXMexican politician
- Lorena Berdún Villegasb. 1973ESSpanish actress
- Bocaflojab. 1978MXnot in their usual nameMexican rapper, poet, spoken word artist (born 1978)
- Aira Villegasb. 1995PHFilipino boxer
- Jewison Bennetteb. 2004CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 49K | #716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 47K | #711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 35K | #917 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 20K | #211 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 20K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 19K | #108 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 3.3K | #119 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2007 | 365 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 365 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2012 | 362 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2009 | 356 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 352 | — |
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
- What does the name Villegas mean, and where does it come from?
- provinces of Albacete and Burgos, so called from Sp. villa settlement (see Ville) + the personal name Egas Var.: Villagrasa. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Villegas?
- In Spanish /biˈʃe.ɣ̞as/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Villegas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 172 thousand people named Villegas in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villegas.
- Where is Villegas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Villegas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 269 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Villegas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 48,599 people named Villegas in 2010, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Villegas compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Villegas is the 117th most common surname of 206,803 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/villegasThe 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, “Villegas” — the 117th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.