Family name origins & meanings
- 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.