Villa Family History
- Villa Name Meaning
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 642,134 Historical Documents with Villa on Ancestry
- 529,551 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 46,156 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,620 Military Records
- 24,703 Immigration Records
- 33,104 Member Trees
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Number of Villa families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Villa families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Villa census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Villa census records
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