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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from any of numerous places named Villar, or in some cases a Castilianized spelling of the Catalan and Galician cognates Vilar.
  • English : variant of Villers, cognate with 3.
  • Southern French : topographic name from Late Latin villare ‘outlying farm’, ‘dependent settlement’, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.

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