Vila Family History
Vila Name Meaning
Catalan: topographic name for somebody who lived in a
vila, which in Catalonia denoted a small town or village with
certain privileges not common for villages, or habitational name from
any of the places called La Vila or Vila. This name is one of the
most common names in Catalonia.Catalan:
habitational name from (Vilá): variant of Vilar.in some cases possibly also Galician and Portuguese:
habitational name from any of the numerous places in Galicia named
Vila, from vila ‘(outlying) farmstead’, ‘(dependent)
settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vila
Name Distribution of Vila Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vila families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Vila families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Vila last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vila census records
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Vila Family Origin
Vila Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Vila
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Vila Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Vila census records
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Vila Civil War Service Records
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