Cognome

De Luca

The strongest concentration of De Luca in US arrival records points to Campania, with 388 of 1,426 arrivals (27 percent) originating there.

1,426

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

464

Comuni of
origin

16

Regioni
represented

108

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 1,426
Abruzzo: 206 arrivalsPuglia: 70 arrivalsBasilicata: 43 arrivalsCalabria: 253 arrivalsCampania: 388 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 15 arrivalsLazio: 81 arrivalsLombardia: 18 arrivalsMarche: 13 arrivalsMolise: 74 arrivalsPiemonte: 8 arrivalsSicilia: 238 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 3 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsUmbria: 4 arrivalsVeneto: 9 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

388 of 1,426
27 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 12
12 to 39
39 to 116
116+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your De Luca line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of De Luca arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Caserta. 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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Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

16 regioni represented

  • Campania38827%
  • Calabria25318%
  • Sicilia23817%
  • Abruzzo20614%
  • Lazio816%
  • Molise745%
  • Puglia705%
  • Basilicata433%
  • Lombardia181%
  • Emilia-Romagna151%
  • Marche131%
  • Veneto91%
  • Piemonte81%
  • Umbria40%
  • Toscana30%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol30%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable De Luca 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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De lucca

63 US arrivals

Del luca

8 US arrivals

De lucas

4 US arrivals

De luc

1 US arrivals

Luca

201 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 Luca.