Cognome

Cavaliere

The strongest concentration of Cavaliere in US arrival records points to Campania, with 97 of 255 arrivals (38 percent) originating there.

255

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

114

Comuni of
origin

13

Regioni
represented

20

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 255
Abruzzo: 12 arrivalsPuglia: 46 arrivalsBasilicata: 24 arrivalsCalabria: 32 arrivalsCampania: 97 arrivalsLazio: 3 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 3 arrivalsMolise: 3 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 30 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

97 of 255
38 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 3
3 to 10
10 to 29
29+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

13 regioni represented

  • Campania9738%
  • Puglia4618%
  • Calabria3213%
  • Sicilia3012%
  • Basilicata249%
  • Abruzzo125%
  • Lazio31%
  • Molise31%
  • Marche31%
  • Umbria21%
  • Piemonte10%
  • Veneto10%
  • Lombardia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Cavaliere 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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La cavaliere

1 US arrivals

Cavalliere

6 US arrivals

Ccavaliere

1 US arrivals

Cavalier

1 US arrivals

Cavalieri

137 US arrivals

Cavaliero

10 US arrivals

Cxavaliere

1 US arrivals

Vcavaliere

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 Cavaliere.

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