Where does Villanueva surname originate?

Question

Where does Villanueva surname originate?

Answer 1

It was adopted by someone who built a new house and their neighbors referred to them as "George with the new house". It doesn't come from a single town or single region. It developed wherever people used Spanish as their vulgate language.  

Answer 2

Spain

Answer 3

Villanueva Name Meaning and History

1. Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Villanueva, from Spanish villa ‘(outlying) farmstead’, ‘(dependent) settlement’ + nueva (feminine) ‘new’ (Latin nova).

2. Castilianized spelling of Catalan and Galician Vilanova, a habitational name from a frequent place name, of the same derivation as 1 above.

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Villanueva...

This link is to a website that also lists facts about your surname based on early US immigration records.  It shows most Villanueva families originated  from Spain, followed by Cuba, .Mexico, Santo Domingo, Panama and Haiti.  The US census records show they mostly lived in Texas and California.  There is also a message board for people researching Villanueva ancestors.  

I noticed you had another post asking if the surname was Filipino.  At this link below, people are discussing Villanueva's from the Phillipines

http://boards.ancestry.com/SearchResults...