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De Vita

The strongest concentration of De Vita in US arrival records points to Campania, with 80 of 189 arrivals (42 percent) originating there.

189

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

90

Comuni of
origin

12

Regioni
represented

22

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 189
Abruzzo: 5 arrivalsPuglia: 21 arrivalsBasilicata: 3 arrivalsCalabria: 17 arrivalsCampania: 80 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMolise: 20 arrivalsSicilia: 36 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

80 of 189
42 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 8
8 to 24
24+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

12 regioni represented

  • Campania8042%
  • Sicilia3619%
  • Puglia2111%
  • Molise2011%
  • Calabria179%
  • Abruzzo53%
  • Basilicata32%
  • Veneto21%
  • Lazio21%
  • Lombardia11%
  • Toscana11%
  • Emilia-Romagna11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable De Vita 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 vitta

1 US arrivals

Del vita

1 US arrivals

Vita

118 US arrivals

Dalia de vita

1 US arrivals

De vito

441 US arrivals

Di vita

78 US arrivals

De viti

2 US arrivals

Da vita

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 De Vita.

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