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Felice

The strongest concentration of Felice in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 135 of 338 arrivals (40 percent) originating there.

338

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

143

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

8

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 338
Abruzzo: 26 arrivalsPuglia: 7 arrivalsBasilicata: 13 arrivalsCalabria: 135 arrivalsCampania: 46 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 25 arrivalsLiguria: 6 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 28 arrivalsPiemonte: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 38 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 2 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

135 of 338
40 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 4
4 to 14
14 to 41
41+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Calabria13540%
  • Campania4614%
  • Sicilia3811%
  • Molise288%
  • Abruzzo268%
  • Lazio257%
  • Basilicata134%
  • Puglia72%
  • Liguria62%
  • Veneto31%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia21%
  • Piemonte21%
  • Toscana21%
  • Umbria10%
  • Marche10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%
  • Lombardia10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Felice 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 felice

209 US arrivals

Di felice

177 US arrivals

La felice

3 US arrivals

San felice

4 US arrivals

Dio felice

1 US arrivals

Feliceto

1 US arrivals

Felici

50 US arrivals

Felica

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 Felice.

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