Cognome

Carafa

The strongest concentration of Carafa in US arrival records points to Abruzzo, with 17 of 32 arrivals (53 percent) originating there.

32

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

21

Comuni of
origin

9

Regioni
represented

43

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 32
Abruzzo: 17 arrivalsPuglia: 1 arrivalsBasilicata: 4 arrivalsCalabria: 2 arrivalsCampania: 3 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 2 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Abruzzo

17 of 32
53 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 2
2 to 5
5+

Persone notevoli

Notable Carafa 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.

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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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Caraffa

16 US arrivals

Carrafa

4 US arrivals

Caraface

1 US arrivals

Carafalo

1 US arrivals

Carafano

1 US arrivals

Carafo

2 US arrivals

Carafagna

5 US arrivals

Cara

23 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 Carafa.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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