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    The surname Villarreal

    A Spanish surname, carried by 61,355 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex V464

    Villarreal: #547 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Villarreal #547, 61,355 people Villarreal: #547 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Villarreal #547, 61,355 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Villarreal is more common than 99.7% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    A surname from Spanish.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 61,355 people named Villarreal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 5,032 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 50,351.

    #547
    rank among US surnames
    61,355
    people in 2010
    21
    per 100,000 Americans
    +21.9%
    change since 2000 (was #613)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #538Macias62,2274,962
    #539Villanueva61,8834,989
    #540Zamora61,7295,002
    #541Pratt61,6715,006
    #542Stokes61,6395,009
    #543Owen61,6305,010
    #544Ballard61,6255,010

    Who is named Villarreal

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

    93% of people named Villarreal identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.5% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
    • Two or more races 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Famous Villarreals

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Raúl Villarreal
      Boxer, 1909–2000
    • Jose Villarreal
      American soccer player, born 1993
    • Javier Villarreal
      Argentine footballer, born 1979
    • Armando Villarreal
      American soccer referee, born 1986

    Notable Villarreals come mostly from Argentina (2) and the United States (2).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Villarreal

    Villarreal has the Soundex code V464, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V464.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Villarreal come from?
    Villarreal is Spanish in origin.
    How common is the surname Villarreal?
    61,355 people in the United States had the surname Villarreal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,032 Americans. It ranked 547th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Villarreal?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Villarreal identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.5% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Villarreal?
    Raúl Villarreal, boxer, followed by Jose Villarreal.
    Where is the surname Villarreal most common?
    Wikidata records people named Villarreal in Argentina and the United States.
    Is the surname Villarreal getting more or less common?
    More common. 50,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 61,355 in 2010, up 22%.