Meaning and formation
Villanueva means “new town” in Spanish, joining villa, “town”, and nueva, “new”. This formation is also used in Spanish place names. Villanueva is listed on printed page 136 of the 1849 Philippine Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /viljanˈweva/ · /biljanˈweba/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /biljanuˈweba/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /biʝaˈnweba/ · /biʎaˈnweba/ · /biʃaˈnweba/ · 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.
- villanueva · page 136 · column 5 · row 37 · Transcription ↗ · Digitized edition ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Villanueva has 34 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts