The Villalba surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,913 people carried this name — #6,852 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 59,900 people counted. That is up 50% from 3,285 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Villalba surname
From the Spanish surname, from villa (“settlement, farmstead”) + albo (“white”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Villalba» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 126,806 people named Villalba live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 133 people named Villalba.
44 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Haute-Vienne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
89 people named Villalba live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
25 people named Villalba is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Villalba in American newspapers,
1916–1929.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,565 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Villalba.
- Vilas 323 · U.S. census
- Vilela 357 · U.S. census
- Vilella 293 · U.S. census
- Villa 52,817 · U.S. census
- Villacampa 121 · U.S. census
- Villaire 179 · U.S. census
- Villalon 2,522 · U.S. census
- Villalonga 240 · U.S. census
- Villani 3,053 · U.S. census
- Villanova 791 · U.S. census
- Villanueva 61,883 · U.S. census
- Villar 5,530 · U.S. census
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