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Neri

The strongest concentration of Neri in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 38 of 207 arrivals (18 percent) originating there.

207

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

99

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

82

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 207
Abruzzo: 21 arrivalsPuglia: 5 arrivalsBasilicata: 3 arrivalsCalabria: 38 arrivalsCampania: 13 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 8 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 34 arrivalsLiguria: 5 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 15 arrivalsPiemonte: 3 arrivalsSicilia: 27 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 4 arrivalsToscana: 18 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

38 of 207
18 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 4
4 to 11
11+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Calabria3818%
  • Lazio3416%
  • Sicilia2713%
  • Abruzzo2110%
  • Toscana189%
  • Molise157%
  • Campania136%
  • Emilia-Romagna84%
  • Marche63%
  • Puglia52%
  • Liguria52%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol42%
  • Piemonte31%
  • Basilicata31%
  • Umbria21%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia21%
  • Veneto21%
  • Lombardia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Neri 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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Lo neri

1 US arrivals

Nermeri

1 US arrivals

Nervieri

4 US arrivals

Nerino

3 US arrivals

Nerina

2 US arrivals

Nemeri

1 US arrivals

Nerini

1 US arrivals

D'nerio

1 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 Neri.

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