Davila surname meaning

Davila is the usual US spelling of Spanish Dávila, a habitational name for someone from Ávila in Castile, with the preposition de fused to the place-name. Galician and Portuguese Da Vila, “from the village,” is a separate though less common route that can land in the same Latin spelling. De Avila and Dávila appear in older or accented records. The surname therefore points to a place of origin—most often the Castilian city—rather than a personal given name. Place is high confidence for the catalog’s main Spanish reading, while keeping the village-name alternative explicit.