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.