Cognome

De Ferrari

The strongest concentration of De Ferrari in US arrival records points to Liguria, with 2 of 5 arrivals (40 percent) originating there.

5

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

4

Comuni of
origin

3

Regioni
represented

10

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 5
Campania: 2 arrivalsLiguria: 2 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Liguria

2 of 5
40 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
1
2
3 to 5
6+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your De Ferrari line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of De Ferrari arrivals came from Liguria, most often from the provincia of Genova. 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 De Ferrari from Liguria

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Persone notevoli

Notable De Ferrari on Wikipedia

  • Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1598 · Genova

  • Orazio De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1606 · Voltri

  • Lorenzo De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1680 · Genova

  • Raffaele Agostino De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1732 · Genova

  • Raffaele De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1803 · Genova

  • Domenico de Ferrari

    IT

    1804 · Genova

  • Giacinto Maria Giuseppe de Ferrari

    IT

    1804 · Oneglia

  • Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari

    ENIT

    1824 · Genova

  • Valerio de Sanctis de Ferrari

    EN

    1962 · Padova

  • Serena de Ferrari

    EN

    1998 · Torino

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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De ferraris

1 US arrivals

Del ferrari

1 US arrivals

De ferari

1 US arrivals

Ferrari

635 US arrivals

De ferrara

5 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 De Ferrari.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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