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Lancellotti

The strongest concentration of Lancellotti in US arrival records points to Campania, with 13 of 24 arrivals (54 percent) originating there.

24

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

12

Comuni of
origin

6

Regioni
represented

14

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 24
Calabria: 4 arrivalsCampania: 13 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 3 arrivalsMolise: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

13 of 24
54 percent of arrivals

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Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Lancellotti line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Lancellotti arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Salerno. If one of them is your ancestor, Italy may recognize you as a citizen under jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent).

The surname alone does not decide it. Each generation between that ancestor and you does: who naturalized, and when. Since the 2025 law, the number of generations matters too.

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A Lancellotti from Campania

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Persone notevoli

Notable Lancellotti on Wikipedia

  • Giovan Paolo Lancellotti

    ENIT

    1522 · Perugia

  • Scipione Lancellotti

    ENIT

    1527 · Roma

  • Giovanni Battista Lancellotti

    IT

    1575 · Roma

  • Giovanni Francesco Lancellotti

    1721 · Staffolo

  • Filippo Lancellotti

    IT

    1732 · Roma

  • Arturo Lancellotti

    IT

    1877 · Napoli

  • Virgilio Lancellotti

    1877 · Q100041

  • Angelo Lancellotti

    1927 · Oppido Lucano

  • Paolo Lancellotti

    IT

    1947 · Q100041

  • Giovanni Battista Lancellotti

    1960 · Roma

  • Carlo Lancellotti

    1965 · Milano

  • Elisa Lancellotti

    IT

    1991 · Q100041

  • Livia Lancellotti

    1995 · Roma

  • Gregorio Lancellotti

    1997 · Roma

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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Lancelotti

3 US arrivals

Lancelloti

1 US arrivals

Lancellotta

20 US arrivals

Ancellotti

2 US arrivals

Lancello

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 Lancellotti.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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