Spanish: habitational name from any of several places named
Villar(r)eal, from Spanish villa
‘(outlying) farmstead’, ‘(dependent) settlement’ + real ‘royal’
(Latin regalis), as for example Villarreal de San Carlos in
Cáceres. The places were so named from having some particular
connection with the Crown.in some cases, variant of Catalan
Vila-real, from the town named Vila-real in Castelló de la
Plana provinve.
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