The Villatoro surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,535 people carried this name — #3,394 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 28,000 people counted. That is up 84% from 5,720 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Villatoro surname

From the Latin for “town of the Goths”.

From Old Castilian Villa Otoro (Burgos), and this from Latin Villa Gotthorum, a Gothic town.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (es.wiktionary.org, the Spanish edition) — entry «Villatoro», by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · translated from Spanish and condensed.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 89 people named Villatoro 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.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 48
Mendoza 41

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Villatoro in American newspapers,
1883–1899.

Newspaper page from La Correspondencia De Puerto Rico carrying the name Villatoro
La Correspondencia De Puerto Rico 1899-12-09
Newspaper page from Gazeta De Puerto-rico carrying the name Villatoro
Gazeta De Puerto-rico 1883-08-16
Newspaper page from Gazeta De Puerto-rico carrying the name Villatoro
Gazeta De Puerto-rico 1885-04-14

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 23 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Villatoro,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Francisco Madrid Villatoro 1889–1957 · bullfighter
  • Carlos Villatoro 1903–1963 · screenwriter

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Villatoro,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States11 records

11 records of the Villatoro name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Ernest Villatoro

    Born 1899 in Guatemala. Enlisted 1942 at New York City; stock clerk from Kings County, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Violeta Villatoro

    Born 1914 in El Salvador. Registered as a foreign national in San Francisco, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Luis G. Villatoro

    Born 1905 in El Salvador. Entered the United States in 1954. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 11 records for Villatoro in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

France2 records

2 records of the Villatoro name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Antonio Villatoro

    Born 1921 in Spain; died 1994 in Lavelanet (Ariège).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Antonio Juan Villatoro

    Born 1915 in Spain; died 1992 in Narbonne (Aude).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Villatoro.

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