Villar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: hamlet
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/biʝaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Villar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 91st most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 572(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- 1 in 572 (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
from Viller(s) or Villier(s), common French place-names; first attested William de Vilers c.130 StCh
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Villar is read(measured from records)
Villar is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish75%
hamlet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
from Viller(s) or Villier(s), common French place-names; first attested William de Vilers c.130 StCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Relating to a villus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Villar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #313 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Villar | 92 |
| ES Spain | #138 | 32,145 | 1 in 1.6K | 32K | Villar | 180 |
| AR Argentina | #311 | 16,029 | 1 in 2.8K | 16K | Villar | 119 |
| PE Peru | #309 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Villar | 97 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #113 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Villar | 48 |
| PY Paraguay | #177 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Villar | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | #91 | 5,922 | 1 in 572 | 5.9K | Villar | 66 |
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)
Villar 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 Swedish, present indicative of villa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Fernando Remachab. 1898ESnot in their usual nameSpanish composer (1898–1984)
- Manny Villarb. 1949PHFilipino businessman; President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2006 to 2008
- Ángel María Villarb. 1950ESSpanish footballer and manager
- Luis Fernando Sepúlvedab. 1974CLnot in their usual nameChilean cyclist
- Rafael Trujillob. 1975ESnot in their usual nameSpanish sailor
- Justo Villarb. 1977PYParaguayan footballer
- Juan Villar Vázquezb. 1988ESSpanish footballer
- Diego Mariñob. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Pablo Maríb. 1993ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Iván Villarb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32K | #154 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32K | #154 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 16K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 5.9K | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Villar come from?
- from Viller(s) or Villier(s), common French place-names; first attested William de Vilers c.130 StCh Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Villar?
- A machine transcription gives /biʝaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Villar mean?
- In Spanish, hamlet
- In which country does Villar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Villar in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled villar.
- Where is Villar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Villar is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 572 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Villar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 32,145 people named Villar, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Villar compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Villar is the 313th most common surname of 876,464 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/villarThe 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, “Villar” — the 313th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.