Cognome

Mosca

The strongest concentration of Mosca in US arrival records points to Campania, with 95 of 355 arrivals (27 percent) originating there.

355

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

152

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

43

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 355
Abruzzo: 50 arrivalsPuglia: 12 arrivalsBasilicata: 14 arrivalsCalabria: 50 arrivalsCampania: 95 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 2 arrivalsLazio: 7 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 10 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsMolise: 12 arrivalsPiemonte: 22 arrivalsSardegna: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 71 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

95 of 355
27 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 3
3 to 10
10 to 29
29+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Campania9527%
  • Sicilia7120%
  • Abruzzo5014%
  • Calabria5014%
  • Piemonte226%
  • Basilicata144%
  • Molise123%
  • Puglia123%
  • Lombardia103%
  • Lazio72%
  • Toscana31%
  • Marche21%
  • Emilia-Romagna21%
  • Umbria10%
  • Veneto10%
  • Sardegna10%
  • Liguria10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Mosca 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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Moscao

4 US arrivals

Mosca fra

1 US arrivals

Moscato

160 US arrivals

Moscaro

14 US arrivals

Moscati

8 US arrivals

Moscano

5 US arrivals

Moscari

3 US arrivals

Moscana

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 Mosca.

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