Cognome

Grillo

The strongest concentration of Grillo in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 330 of 710 arrivals (46 percent) originating there.

710

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

231

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

44

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 710
Abruzzo: 12 arrivalsPuglia: 11 arrivalsBasilicata: 6 arrivalsCalabria: 114 arrivalsCampania: 144 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 9 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 3 arrivalsLazio: 20 arrivalsLiguria: 14 arrivalsLombardia: 10 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 12 arrivalsPiemonte: 7 arrivalsSicilia: 330 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 2 arrivalsToscana: 2 arrivalsUmbria: 5 arrivalsVeneto: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

330 of 710
46 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 10
10 to 33
33 to 99
99+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Sicilia33046%
  • Campania14420%
  • Calabria11416%
  • Lazio203%
  • Liguria142%
  • Molise122%
  • Abruzzo122%
  • Puglia112%
  • Lombardia101%
  • Emilia-Romagna91%
  • Piemonte71%
  • Marche61%
  • Basilicata61%
  • Umbria51%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia30%
  • Veneto30%
  • Toscana20%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol20%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Grillo 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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Di grillo

1 US arrivals

Ggrillo

1 US arrivals

Del grillo

3 US arrivals

Grill

2 US arrivals

Grilo

2 US arrivals

Grillone

21 US arrivals

Grilloni

2 US arrivals

Lito grillo

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 Grillo.

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