Portuguese and Spanish: habitational name, an old spelling of
Vilela, from any of several places in Portugal and Spain so
named, from a diminutive of vila ‘(outlying) farm’,
‘(dependent) settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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