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Garaffa
The strongest concentration of Garaffa in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 10 of 15 arrivals (67 percent) originating there.
15
US arrivals
1830 to 1912
8
Comuni of
origin
3
Regioni
represented
0
Notable on
Wikipedia
Top regione
Calabria
10 of 15
67 percent of arrivals
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.
Garraffa
6 US arrivals
Gaffa
2 US arrivals
Giaraffa
3 US arrivals
Garaffio
1 US arrivals
Graffa
3 US arrivals
Garafi
1 US arrivals
Caraffa
16 US arrivals
Maraffa
10 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 Garaffa.
Origini per comune
Arrival records by comune
Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Garaffa was recorded between 1830 and 1912.
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