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Imperiale

The strongest concentration of Imperiale in US arrival records points to Campania, with 33 of 75 arrivals (44 percent) originating there.

75

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

42

Comuni of
origin

14

Regioni
represented

7

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 75
Abruzzo: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 4 arrivalsBasilicata: 3 arrivalsCalabria: 6 arrivalsCampania: 33 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 2 arrivalsLazio: 4 arrivalsLiguria: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 12 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

33 of 75
44 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 3
3 to 10
10+

Persone notevoli

Notable Imperiale on Wikipedia

  • Giovanni Giacomo Imperiale Tartaro

    ENIT

    1554 · Genova

  • Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale

    ENIT

    1582 · Genova

  • Francesco Maria Imperiale Lercari

    ENIT

    1629 · Sampierdarena

  • Ambrogio Imperiale

    ENIT

    1649 · Genova

  • Francesco Maria Imperiale

    ENIT

    1653 · Sampierdarena

  • Placido Imperiale

    IT

    1727 · Napoli

  • Marco Leo Imperiale

    1975 · Lecce

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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Imperial

2 US arrivals

Imperiali

18 US arrivals

Imperia

12 US arrivals

Imperi

4 US arrivals

Imperiati

3 US arrivals

D imperia

1 US arrivals

Imperio

9 US arrivals

Imbriale

9 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 Imperiale.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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