Asturian-Leonese and Spanish: habitational name from any of the
places (mainly in Asturies) called Villa, from villa ‘(outlying)
farmstead’, ‘(dependent) settlement’, or from any of the numerous
places named with this word as the first element.Italian: topographic name for someone who lived in a village as
opposed to an isolated farmhouse, or in a town as opposed to the
countryside, from Latin villa ‘country house’, ‘estate’, later
used to denote of a group of houses forming a settlement and in some
dialects to denote the most important area or center of a settlement,
or a habitational name from any of various places named with this
word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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