Villalobos surname meaning

Villalobos is a Spanish habitational surname from the town of Villalobos in Zamora province. The place-name joins villa—“outlying farmstead” or dependent settlement—with lobos, the plural of lobo, “wolf,” so “settlement of the wolves” in transparent Spanish. Bearers need not have lived among wolves; they are named for the place. Villa-Lobos and Villalobo appear as spacing or singular variants. Place is high confidence because DAFN and Iberian surname references agree on the Zamora habitational origin and the compound’s elements are clear.