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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Villa
Name Distribution of Villa Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Villa families
 90 - 178  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Villa families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Villa families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Villa census records
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Villa Family Origin
Villa Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Villa
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Villa Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Villa census records
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Villa Civil War Service Records
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