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Bonaparte

The strongest concentration of Bonaparte in US arrival records points to Marche, with 2 of 6 arrivals (33 percent) originating there.

6

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

5

Comuni of
origin

4

Regioni
represented

12

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 6
Calabria: 2 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Marche

2 of 6
33 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
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1
2
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Could your Bonaparte line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Bonaparte arrivals came from Marche, most often from the provincia of Pesaro e Urbino. If one of them is your ancestor, Italy may recognize you as a citizen under jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent).

The surname alone does not decide it. Each generation between that ancestor and you does: who naturalized, and when. Since the 2025 law, the number of generations matters too.

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A Bonaparte from Marche

Most often from Pesaro e Urbino (PU)

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Persone notevoli

Notable Bonaparte on Wikipedia

  • Laetitia Christine Bonaparte

    1804 · Milano

  • Girolamo Napoleone Carlo Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1814 · Trieste

  • Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1815 · Roma

  • Antoine Bonaparte

    1816 · Tusculum

  • Maria Alessandrina Bonaparte

    IT

    1818 · Roma

  • Matilde Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1820 · Trieste

  • Napoleone Giuseppe Carlo Paolo Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1822 · Trieste

  • Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1828 · Roma

  • Julie Bonaparte

    1830 · Roma

  • Augusta Bonaparte Gabrielli

    ENIT

    1836 · Roma

  • Napoleone-Carlo Bonaparte

    ENIT

    1839 · Roma

  • Zénaïde Eugénie Bonaparte

    1860 · Roma

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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Bonarte

1 US arrivals

Bonapace

2 US arrivals

Bomparte

1 US arrivals

Bonapane

1 US arrivals

Bonaforte

4 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 Bonaparte.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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