Revilla Surname Meaning & Origin (Spanish)

Meaning and formation

Revilla is a Spanish surname connected with a “dependent settlement”. It comes from places named Revilla, especially in Castile, whose name derives from Old Spanish revilla, a word related to villa. In the Philippines, the family surname is borne by the basketball player LA Revilla and his wife, volleyball player Denden Lazaro-Revilla. Their names show the surname alone and as part of a hyphenated married surname. The actor and politician Bong Revilla uses Revilla as a screen name; his birth family surname is Bautista.

Dictionary pronunciation

• Spanish: /reˈbiʝa/ · /reˈbiʎa/ · /reˈbiʃa/ · Wiktionary ↗

In the 1849 Catálogo transcription

The linked transcription records the following spelling and page position. Open the edition link to locate the printed page.

• revilla · page 110 · column 4 · row 6 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗

Public figures with this surname

Elected officials in the 2001 list

Revilla has 1 record in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.

Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts