Villasenor History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Spain

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 (pre 1700)

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Villasenor Ranking

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

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

Citations +

^ https://namecensus.com/most_common_surnames.htm
^ 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)