Villanueva Family History
Villanueva Name Meaning
Spanish:: habitational name from any of the very frequent places called Villanueva from villa ‘(outlying) farmstead (dependent) settlement’ (see Villa ) + nueva (feminine) ‘new’ (from Latin nova). Castilianized form of Catalan and Galician Vilanova a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022