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Garofalo

The strongest concentration of Garofalo in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 189 of 657 arrivals (29 percent) originating there.

657

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

215

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

30

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 657
Abruzzo: 23 arrivalsPuglia: 20 arrivalsBasilicata: 13 arrivalsCalabria: 189 arrivalsCampania: 178 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 37 arrivalsLiguria: 3 arrivalsLombardia: 6 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsMolise: 12 arrivalsPiemonte: 3 arrivalsSardegna: 3 arrivalsSicilia: 144 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 16 arrivalsToscana: 2 arrivalsUmbria: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

189 of 657
29 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 6
6 to 19
19 to 57
57+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Calabria18929%
  • Campania17827%
  • Sicilia14422%
  • Lazio376%
  • Abruzzo234%
  • Puglia203%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol162%
  • Basilicata132%
  • Molise122%
  • Lombardia61%
  • Piemonte30%
  • Umbria30%
  • Liguria30%
  • Sardegna30%
  • Veneto20%
  • Marche20%
  • Toscana20%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Garofalo 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.

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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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Garofallo

6 US arrivals

Garrofalo

3 US arrivals

Garofali

16 US arrivals

Garofala

2 US arrivals

Fgarofalo

1 US arrivals

Garofa;lo

1 US arrivals

Garofalco

1 US arrivals

Garofaldo

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 Garofalo.

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