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D'aragona

The strongest concentration of D'aragona in US arrival records points to Molise, with 1 of 2 arrivals (50 percent) originating there.

2

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

2

Comuni of
origin

2

Regioni
represented

15

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 2
Calabria: 1 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Molise

1 of 2
50 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
1
2
3 to 5
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Could your D'aragona line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of D'aragona arrivals came from Molise, most often from the provincia of Isernia. 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 D'aragona from Molise

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Persone notevoli

Notable D'aragona on Wikipedia

  • Luigi d'Aragona

    ENIT

    1474 · Napoli

  • Carlo d'Aragona Tagliavia

    ENIT

    1520 · Palermo

  • Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona

    ENIT

    1536 · Napoli

  • Costanza Piccolomini d'Aragona

    1553 · Napoli

  • Ottavio d'Aragona Tagliavia

    ENIT

    1565 · Palermo

  • Antonio d'Aragona Moncada

    IT

    1589 · Palermo

  • Giuseppe Gaetani d'Aragona

    ENIT

    1643 · Piedimonte Matese

  • Filippo Bernualdo Orsini d'Aragona, XIV duca di Gravina

    IT

    1685 · Solofra

  • Ettore Pignatelli d'Aragona, 11th Duke of Monteleone, 10th Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca

    EN

    1742 · Monteleone di Puglia

  • Domenico Orsini

    IT

    1790 · Napoli

  • Giuseppe Pignatelli d'Aragona, XI principe di Noia, XIV duca di Monteleone

    1795 · Napoli

  • Onorato Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, VI principe di Piedimonte

    IT

    1832 · Napoli

  • Nicola Gaetani d'Alife Dell'Aquila D'Aragona, VII principe di Piedimonte

    IT

    1857 · Napoli

  • Ludovico D'Aragona

    ENIT

    1876 · Cernusco sul Naviglio

  • Giacomo Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona

    1887 · Sasso di Castalda

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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D aragona

1 US arrivals

Aragona

81 US arrivals

Aragone

13 US arrivals

Aragono

2 US arrivals

Dragona

2 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 D'aragona.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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