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Casanova

The strongest concentration of Casanova in US arrival records points to Abruzzo, with 7 of 28 arrivals (25 percent) originating there.

28

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

22

Comuni of
origin

10

Regioni
represented

23

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 28
Abruzzo: 7 arrivalsPuglia: 2 arrivalsCalabria: 4 arrivalsCampania: 4 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 1 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 4 arrivalsSicilia: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Abruzzo

7 of 28
25 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
1
2
3 to 5
6+

Persone notevoli

Notable Casanova on Wikipedia

  • Agostino da Casanova

    IT

    1450 · Liguria

  • San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio

    ENIT

    1676 · Porto Maurizio

  • Giulia Balli Casanova

    1677 · Bologna

  • Gaetano Casanova

    ENIT

    1697 · Parma

  • Giacomo Casanova

    ENIT

    1725 · Venezia

  • Giovanni Battista Casanova

    ENIT

    1730 · Venezia

  • Ludovico Casanova

    1799 · Genova

  • Francesco Casanova

    1841 · Genova

  • Achille Casanova

    IT

    1861 · Minerbio

  • Eugenio Casanova

    IT

    1867 · Torino

  • Carlo Casanova

    IT

    1871 · Crema

  • Giulio Casanova

    IT

    1875 · Minerbio

  • Claudio Casanova

    ENIT

    1895 · Cornigliano

  • Marcello Casanova

    EN

    1901 · Genova

  • Ottorino Casanova

    IT

    1906 · Guastalla

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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Cassanova

1 US arrivals

Casano

63 US arrivals

Canova

37 US arrivals

Castranova

2 US arrivals

Casalinova

1 US arrivals

Pasanova

1 US arrivals

Cassenova

1 US arrivals

Cersanova

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 Casanova.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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