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Fossati

The strongest concentration of Fossati in US arrival records points to Emilia-Romagna, with 4 of 12 arrivals (33 percent) originating there.

12

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

8

Comuni of
origin

7

Regioni
represented

42

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 12
Campania: 1 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 4 arrivalsLazio: 1 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 2 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Emilia-Romagna

4 of 12
33 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
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1
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Could your Fossati line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Fossati arrivals came from Emilia-Romagna, most often from the provincia of Piacenza. 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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Notable Fossati on Wikipedia

  • Domenico Fossati

    EN

    1743 · Venezia

  • Giuseppe Fossati

    1759 · Venezia

  • Claudio Fossati

    1823 · Toscolano Maderno

  • Agostino Fossati

    IT

    1830 · La Spezia

  • Ercole Fossati

    1843 · Pavia

  • Andrea Fossati

    IT

    1844 · Toscolano Maderno

  • Donato Fossati

    IT

    1870 · Toscolano Maderno

  • Luigi Fossati

    1871 · Brescia

  • Maurilio Fossati

    ENIT

    1876 · Arona

  • Domenico Fossati

    1883 · Tortona

  • Domenico Fossati

    1885 · Genova

  • Ambrogio Fossati

    IT

    1887 · Lissone

  • Luigi Vittorio Fossati Bellani

    1889 · Monza

  • Virgilio Fossati

    ENIT

    1891 · Milano

  • Giuseppe Fossati

    IT

    1894 · Milano

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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Fossatti

1 US arrivals

Fossato

3 US arrivals

Fossa

31 US arrivals

Fossatara

1 US arrivals

Fossataro

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 Fossati.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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