Cognome

De Matteis

The strongest concentration of De Matteis in US arrival records points to Abruzzo, with 24 of 85 arrivals (28 percent) originating there.

85

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

38

Comuni of
origin

11

Regioni
represented

13

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 85
Abruzzo: 24 arrivalsPuglia: 12 arrivalsCalabria: 13 arrivalsCampania: 20 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 2 arrivalsLazio: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 2 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 4 arrivalsSicilia: 4 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Abruzzo

24 of 85
28 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 2
2 to 7
7+

Persone notevoli

Notable De Matteis 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.

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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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De mattei

26 US arrivals

De mateis

6 US arrivals

Matteis

33 US arrivals

Di matteis

8 US arrivals

De matteio

1 US arrivals

Mattteis

1 US arrivals

De mastteis

2 US arrivals

De matteo

65 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 Matteis.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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