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Martinelli

The strongest concentration of Martinelli in US arrival records points to Campania, with 66 of 388 arrivals (17 percent) originating there.

388

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

174

Comuni of
origin

19

Regioni
represented

99

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 388
Abruzzo: 64 arrivalsPuglia: 28 arrivalsBasilicata: 38 arrivalsCalabria: 14 arrivalsCampania: 66 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 11 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 18 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 30 arrivalsMarche: 12 arrivalsMolise: 13 arrivalsPiemonte: 8 arrivalsSardegna: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 12 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 2 arrivalsToscana: 59 arrivalsUmbria: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 6 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

66 of 388
17 percent of arrivals

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Could your Martinelli line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Martinelli arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Caserta. 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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Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

19 regioni represented

  • Campania6617%
  • Abruzzo6416%
  • Toscana5915%
  • Basilicata3810%
  • Lombardia308%
  • Puglia287%
  • Lazio185%
  • Calabria144%
  • Molise133%
  • Marche123%
  • Sicilia123%
  • Emilia-Romagna113%
  • Piemonte82%
  • Veneto62%
  • Umbria31%
  • Sardegna21%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol21%
  • Liguria10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Martinelli 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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Martinelliu

1 US arrivals

Martineli

1 US arrivals

Martinello

43 US arrivals

Martinella

7 US arrivals

Martinerlli

2 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 Martinelli.