Villegas

47,223 people in the United States were counted with the surname Villegas in the 2020 census, making it the 711th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,330.

By the numbers

People: 47,223
Rank: 711th
How common: 1 in 6,330
Per 100,000: 15.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Villegas.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 90.7%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Villegas

José Villegas (1934–2021)Mexican footballer
Jaime Villegas (born 1950)Honduran footballer
Socrates B. Villegas (born 1960)Catholic archbishop
Aira Villegas (born 1995)Filipino boxer
José Villegas Cordero (1844–1921)Spanish painter
Micaela Villegas (La Perricholi) (1748–1819)Peruvian actress
Benito Villegas (1877–1952)Argentine chess player
Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1589–1669)Spanish poet

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

Surnames like Villegas

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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.