Villa

At the 2020 census, 50,813 Americans bore the surname Villa — 653rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,882.

By the numbers

People: 50,813
Rank: 653rd
How common: 1 in 5,882
Per 100,000: 17.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Villa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 87.9%
White, not Hispanic 8.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Villa

David Villa (born 1981)Spanish footballer
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)Brazilian composer
Claudio Villa (1926–1987)Italian singer and actor
Ricardo Villa (born 1952)Argentine footballer
Fernando Calero Villa (born 1995)association football player
Germán Villa (born 1973)Mexican footballer
Brenda Villa (born 1980)American water polo player and coach
Marco Villa (born 1969)Italian cyclist

People named Villa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Villa

Also a first name

Villa has been given to 749 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1915. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.