The vila Surname

vila Name Meaning and History

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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vila Family Facts

Distribution of vila Families in the US in 1920

Number of vila families

11-20

4-10

1-3

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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My Vila ancestors	djihv	0
Vila family in Cuba	admin98	0
Looking for Vila Ancestors	scdrillsergeant	4
Catalina Vila & Pedro Pou	Patricia	0
my email	Ramon Tusell	0
Justina Ramos Rodriguez and families	Tori Hobbs	0
Maria Nadal Y Vila, 1873, Vicente, Rupia	victarmas	0
Vila	Carmin Brigantti	30
Love you and miss you very very much	Richard Vila	0
New information - Vila from Menorca, Spain	pinchdatail	0

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