Surname Villa in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Villa families are Croats (from Labin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Labin area. In Polje Čepić in Labin area every seventieth inhabitant had the family name Villa.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Villa live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), Samobor (<5), Icici (<5), and in Purgarija Cepic in Labin area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Villa (including: Vella , Willa , Villaa , Viella , Viilla , Villla , Vellah , Villah and Villila ) is present in 161 countries worldwide. "Villila " is used by few people in the United States. "Vella " is used by some 10000 people in Italy , about 9000 in Australia , and some 7000 people in the United States. "Willa " is used by some 2000 people in Tanzania , about 300 in Indonesia , and some 200 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Luca Villa, Guido Villa, Nevio Villa, Boško Villa, Eleonora Villa, Giovanni Villa, Ivanka Villa, Luigi Villa, Lydia Villa, Marija Villa, Norberto Villa, Sandra Villa, Viktorija Villa

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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