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Cardelli

The strongest concentration of Cardelli in US arrival records points to Toscana, with 14 of 43 arrivals (33 percent) originating there.

43

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

28

Comuni of
origin

11

Regioni
represented

11

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 43
Abruzzo: 8 arrivalsCalabria: 1 arrivalsCampania: 3 arrivalsLazio: 7 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 2 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 4 arrivalsToscana: 14 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Toscana

14 of 43
33 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
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< 0
0 to 1
1 to 4
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Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Cardelli line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Cardelli arrivals came from Toscana, most often from the provincia of Pistoia. 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 Cardelli from Toscana

Most often from Pistoia (PT)

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Persone notevoli

Notable Cardelli on Wikipedia

  • Domenico Cardelli

    1767 · Roma

  • Salvatore Cardelli

    1773 · Roma

  • Pietro Cardelli

    1776 · Roma

  • Luigi Maria Cardelli

    1777 · Roma

  • Torquato Cardelli

    IT

    1895 · Sant'Ermo

  • Otello Cardelli

    1926 · Imola

  • Luca Cardelli

    EN

    1954 · Montecatini Terme

  • Francesco Caruso Cardelli

    IT

    1958 · Roma

  • Massimo Cardelli

    IT

    1967 · Porto San Giorgio

  • Alessandro Cardelli

    ENIT

    1991 · Cesena

  • Daniele Cardelli

    EN

    1995 · Pescia

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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Cardellio

4 US arrivals

Cardeli

1 US arrivals

Cardellino

7 US arrivals

Cardellini

6 US arrivals

Cavardelli

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 Cardelli.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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