How common is the surname Villani?

3,053 people in the United States had the surname Villani in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,129 Americans. It ranked 10,512th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Villani?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Villani identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Villani getting more or less common?

More common. 2,521 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,053 in 2010, up 21%.

The surname Villani

An Italian surname, carried by 3,053 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Villani is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Villani.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,053 people named Villani in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,129 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,521.

#10,512

rank among US surnames

3,053

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+21.1%

change since 2000 (was #11,459)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,505	Zeno	3,055	101,062
#10,510	Ferrel	3,054	101,095
#10,512	Beagle	3,053	101,129
#10,514	Konrad	3,052	101,162
#10,515	Amburgey	3,051	101,195
#10,517	Rymer	3,050	101,228
#10,520	McMorris	3,049	101,261

Who is named Villani

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

91% of people named Villani identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Villani

Villano

Villani has the Soundex code V450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V450.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Villani come from?: Borrowed from Italian Villani.
How common is the surname Villani?: 3,053 people in the United States had the surname Villani in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,129 Americans. It ranked 10,512th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Villani?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Villani identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Villani getting more or less common?: More common. 2,521 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,053 in 2010, up 21%.