Cognome

Gaeta

The strongest concentration of Gaeta in US arrival records points to Campania, with 126 of 233 arrivals (54 percent) originating there.

233

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

79

Comuni of
origin

10

Regioni
represented

15

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 233
Abruzzo: 5 arrivalsPuglia: 25 arrivalsBasilicata: 16 arrivalsCalabria: 24 arrivalsCampania: 126 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 3 arrivalsPiemonte: 3 arrivalsSicilia: 29 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

126 of 233
54 percent of arrivals

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

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

10 regioni represented

  • Campania12654%
  • Sicilia2912%
  • Puglia2511%
  • Calabria2410%
  • Basilicata167%
  • Abruzzo52%
  • Piemonte31%
  • Lazio31%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Gaeta 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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D gaeta

1 US arrivals

De gaeta

4 US arrivals

Di gaeta

3 US arrivals

Gaetta

1 US arrivals

Gaetano

162 US arrivals

Gaetani

27 US arrivals

Gaetana

3 US arrivals

Gaetabi

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 Gaeta.

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