Cognome

Grasso

The strongest concentration of Grasso in US arrival records points to Campania, with 214 of 614 arrivals (35 percent) originating there.

614

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

229

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

54

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 614
Abruzzo: 14 arrivalsValle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 34 arrivalsBasilicata: 27 arrivalsCalabria: 31 arrivalsCampania: 214 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 3 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 7 arrivalsLiguria: 4 arrivalsLombardia: 2 arrivalsMarche: 5 arrivalsMolise: 17 arrivalsPiemonte: 25 arrivalsSicilia: 211 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 3 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 13 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

214 of 614
35 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 6
6 to 21
21 to 64
64+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Campania21435%
  • Sicilia21134%
  • Puglia346%
  • Calabria315%
  • Basilicata274%
  • Piemonte254%
  • Molise173%
  • Abruzzo142%
  • Veneto132%
  • Lazio71%
  • Marche51%
  • Liguria41%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol30%
  • Emilia-Romagna30%
  • Lombardia20%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia20%
  • Umbria10%
  • Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Grasso 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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Grasso s

1 US arrivals

Lo grasso

41 US arrivals

Grassoo

1 US arrivals

Del grasso

23 US arrivals

Lia grasso

1 US arrivals

Graso

14 US arrivals

Gralasso

1 US arrivals

Grassone

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 Grasso.

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