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Elia

The strongest concentration of Elia in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 126 of 279 arrivals (45 percent) originating there.

279

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

108

Comuni of
origin

15

Regioni
represented

22

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 279
Abruzzo: 8 arrivalsPuglia: 18 arrivalsBasilicata: 10 arrivalsCalabria: 126 arrivalsCampania: 70 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 3 arrivalsLazio: 3 arrivalsLiguria: 2 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 6 arrivalsSardegna: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 27 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

126 of 279
45 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 4
4 to 13
13 to 38
38+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

15 regioni represented

  • Calabria12645%
  • Campania7025%
  • Sicilia2710%
  • Puglia186%
  • Basilicata104%
  • Abruzzo83%
  • Piemonte62%
  • Emilia-Romagna31%
  • Lazio31%
  • Liguria21%
  • Marche21%
  • Sardegna10%
  • Molise10%
  • Toscana10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Elia 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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D elia

147 US arrivals

D'elia

113 US arrivals

D' elia

8 US arrivals

Ed elia

1 US arrivals

Di elia

1 US arrivals

Elia it

1 US arrivals

Elias

1 US arrivals

Eliano

6 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 Elia.

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