Origin and formation
Villegas is a Spanish surname from a place called Villegas in the province of Burgos. It belongs to the habitational surnames that developed from the names of settlements. The Spanish surname was borrowed into both Tagalog and Cebuano, retaining the form Villegas. Philippine bearers include Antonio Villegas, who served as mayor of Manila from 1962 to 1971, and the boxer Aira Villegas, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 2024. The economist Bernardo Villegas and the Catholic prelate Socrates Villegas have also used the surname.
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /vilˈjeɡas/ · /bilˈjeɡas/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Spanish: /biˈʝeɡas/ · /biˈʎeɡas/ · /biˈʃeɡas/ · Wiktionary ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Villegas has 12 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