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Early Origins of the Villasenor family

The surname Villasenor was first found in Andalusia. An early record of the name shows Juan de Villaseñor y Seronis (Serones,) who was a Commander in the Order of Santiago, and Horseman of the Order of Reino Tarasco in circa 1425.

Early History of the Villasenor family

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Villasenor Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Villasenor, Villasenior and others.

Early Notables of the Villasenor family

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Villasenor Ranking

In the United States, the name Villasenor is the 4,185th most popular surname with an estimated 7,461 people with that name. 1


United States Villasenor migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Villasenor Settlers in United States in the 16th Century
  • Juan de Villaseñor (1500-1576), a Captain and Conqueror of New Spain
Villasenor Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Juan Ignacio Villasenor, who arrived in Baltimore in 1823
  • Juan De Villasenor, who landed in America in 1827 2
  • Emillo Villasenor traveled on the "SS San Juan" from Panama to San Francisco in 1895

Contemporary Notables of the name Villasenor (post 1700) +

  • John Villasenor, American Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA
  • Victor Villaseñor (b. 1940), American acclaimed fiction and nonfiction writer, best known for the New York Times bestseller novel Rain of Gold
  • Rico Villasenor, American musician
  • Victor Villasenor, acclaimed Mexican-American writer
  • Joey Villasenor (b. 1975), Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter
  • José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez, Mexican geographer, historian, and mathematician
  • Fabián Israél Villasenor, Mexican footballer and goalkeeper


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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