Cognome

Gambardella

The strongest concentration of Gambardella in US arrival records points to Campania, with 116 of 140 arrivals (83 percent) originating there.

140

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

40

Comuni of
origin

10

Regioni
represented

15

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 140
Abruzzo: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 1 arrivalsBasilicata: 2 arrivalsCalabria: 9 arrivalsCampania: 116 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 3 arrivalsSicilia: 5 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

116 of 140
83 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 3
3 to 12
12 to 35
35+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Gambardella line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Gambardella arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Salerno. 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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A Gambardella from Campania

Most often from Salerno (SA)

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Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

10 regioni represented

  • Campania11683%
  • Calabria96%
  • Sicilia54%
  • Piemonte32%
  • Basilicata21%
  • Veneto11%
  • Molise11%
  • Abruzzo11%
  • Umbria11%
  • Puglia11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Gambardella on Wikipedia

  • Fausto Gambardella

    IT

    1868 · Napoli

  • Salvatore Gambardella

    IT

    1871 · Napoli

  • Giuseppe Gambardella

    IT

    1880 · Napoli

  • Alfonso Gambardella

    1933 · Taranto

  • Agata Piromallo Gambardella

    1935 · Napoli

  • Giovanni Gambardella

    IT

    1935 · Taranto

  • Ersilia Alessandrone Perona

    1943 · Bolzano

  • Carmine Gambardella

    1946 · Salerno

  • Claudio Gambardella

    1953 · Napoli

  • Alberto Gambardella

    1960 · Roma

  • Alfonso Gambardella

    1961 · Roma

  • Luca Maria Gambardella

    EN

    1962 · Saronno

  • Claudio Gambardella

    1986 · Napoli

  • Giulio Gambardella

    1986 · Mondovì

  • Giulio Gambardella

    1998 · Mantova

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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Gambardela

1 US arrivals

Gambardelli

8 US arrivals

Gambardello

2 US arrivals

Giambardella

7 US arrivals

Gambadella

4 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 Gambardella.