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Calabrese

The strongest concentration of Calabrese in US arrival records points to Campania, with 391 of 1,078 arrivals (36 percent) originating there.

1,078

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

285

Comuni of
origin

17

Regioni
represented

37

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 1,078
Abruzzo: 54 arrivalsPuglia: 35 arrivalsBasilicata: 122 arrivalsCalabria: 115 arrivalsCampania: 391 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 4 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 29 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 9 arrivalsMarche: 4 arrivalsMolise: 89 arrivalsPiemonte: 9 arrivalsSicilia: 206 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 3 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

391 of 1,078
36 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 12
12 to 39
39 to 117
117+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

17 regioni represented

  • Campania39136%
  • Sicilia20619%
  • Basilicata12211%
  • Calabria11511%
  • Molise898%
  • Abruzzo545%
  • Puglia353%
  • Lazio293%
  • Piemonte91%
  • Lombardia91%
  • Emilia-Romagna40%
  • Marche40%
  • Toscana30%
  • Veneto30%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol30%
  • Liguria10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Calabrese 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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Calabresse

2 US arrivals

Calabreseo

1 US arrivals

Calabres

1 US arrivals

Calabresi

16 US arrivals

Calabresa

2 US arrivals

Calabrese congo

1 US arrivals

Calabre

5 US arrivals

Calabresre

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 Calabrese.

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