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Mazza

The strongest concentration of Mazza in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 352 of 811 arrivals (43 percent) originating there.

811

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

257

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

68

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 811
Abruzzo: 13 arrivalsPuglia: 10 arrivalsBasilicata: 44 arrivalsCalabria: 352 arrivalsCampania: 178 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 17 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 20 arrivalsLiguria: 6 arrivalsLombardia: 18 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 9 arrivalsPiemonte: 11 arrivalsSardegna: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 118 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

352 of 811
43 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 11
11 to 35
35 to 106
106+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Calabria35243%
  • Campania17822%
  • Sicilia11815%
  • Basilicata445%
  • Lazio202%
  • Lombardia182%
  • Emilia-Romagna172%
  • Abruzzo132%
  • Piemonte111%
  • Puglia101%
  • Molise91%
  • Liguria61%
  • Marche61%
  • Veneto30%
  • Sardegna20%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia20%
  • Toscana10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Mazza 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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Mazzazza

2 US arrivals

Di mazza

10 US arrivals

La mazza

3 US arrivals

Mazzozza

1 US arrivals

Mazza maria

2 US arrivals

Maza

5 US arrivals

Mazzara

89 US arrivals

Mazzano

77 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 Mazza.

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