Cognome

Aquila

The strongest concentration of Aquila in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 21 of 69 arrivals (30 percent) originating there.

69

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

33

Comuni of
origin

8

Regioni
represented

3

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 69
Abruzzo: 8 arrivalsBasilicata: 2 arrivalsCalabria: 18 arrivalsCampania: 6 arrivalsLazio: 12 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 21 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

21 of 69
30 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 2
2 to 6
6+

Persone notevoli

Notable Aquila on Wikipedia

  • Pietro Aquila

    ENIT

    1630 · Sicilia

  • Francesco Faraone Aquila

    IT

    1676 · Palermo

  • Francesco Aquila

    1986 · Altamura

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.

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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 aquila

44 US arrivals

D'aquila

24 US arrivals

De aquila

1 US arrivals

Del aquila

5 US arrivals

Aquilano

7 US arrivals

Aquilani

3 US arrivals

Aquilant

3 US arrivals

Aquilana

2 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 Aquila.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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