Is Villanueva a filipino surname?

Question

Is Villanueva a filipino surname?

Answer 1

Yes/No.

Filipinos often have Spanish surnames because Spain occupied the Philippines for centuries, so many Hispanic names show up in the Philippines.

Answer 2

It is a Spanish name.  You will find Spanish names in the Phillipines as well as in Mexico, Central  and South America and quite a few in the U.S.   The people of Cuba also have Spanish names.  The Phillipines as well as a good part of the Americas was under Spanish rule for quite some time.

Answer 3

Sort of. It is from Spanish, not Tagalog or another of the Filipino languages. You will find it in the Philippines, Spain, all of South America, all of Central America, all of Mexico, among Hispanics in the USA and Canada, in the Caribbean, and in some former Spanish colonies in Africa.