Cognome

Amato

The strongest concentration of Amato in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 444 of 1,097 arrivals (40 percent) originating there.

1,097

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

319

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

73

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 1,097
Abruzzo: 19 arrivalsPuglia: 23 arrivalsBasilicata: 44 arrivalsCalabria: 163 arrivalsCampania: 333 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 4 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 24 arrivalsLiguria: 5 arrivalsLombardia: 5 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 11 arrivalsPiemonte: 10 arrivalsSicilia: 444 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 2 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

444 of 1,097
40 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 13
13 to 44
44 to 133
133+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Sicilia44440%
  • Campania33330%
  • Calabria16315%
  • Basilicata444%
  • Lazio242%
  • Puglia232%
  • Abruzzo192%
  • Molise111%
  • Piemonte101%
  • Marche61%
  • Liguria50%
  • Lombardia50%
  • Emilia-Romagna40%
  • Toscana20%
  • Veneto10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Umbria10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Amato was recorded between 1830 and 1912.

Persone notevoli

Notable Amato on Wikipedia

Varianti grafiche

Spelling variants worth checking

  • The spelling you know may not be the one in the records. For example, a family remembers Mansini, but the records read Mancini.
  • If your spelling does not appear, a close variant in the list below may be the same family.

Related guide

Myths About Name Changes at Ellis Island

Names were never changed at the border. The spelling here is the original Italian: Giovinelli in the records, perhaps Jovanelli in the family today.

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D amato

287 US arrivals

D'amato

190 US arrivals

D' amato

9 US arrivals

L'amato

1 US arrivals

S amato

1 US arrivals

Di amato

3 US arrivals

De amato

1 US arrivals

Amatto

1 US arrivals

Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Amato.

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