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Nicolai

The strongest concentration of Nicolai in US arrival records points to Abruzzo, with 16 of 44 arrivals (36 percent) originating there.

44

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

29

Comuni of
origin

12

Regioni
represented

13

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 44
Abruzzo: 16 arrivalsPuglia: 4 arrivalsCalabria: 1 arrivalsCampania: 3 arrivalsLazio: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 5 arrivalsToscana: 4 arrivalsVeneto: 5 arrivals

Top regione

Abruzzo

16 of 44
36 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 0
0 to 2
2 to 5
5+

Persone notevoli

Notable Nicolai on Wikipedia

  • Giovan Francesco Nicolai

    1656 · Leonessa

  • Giovanni Battista Nicolai

    ENIT

    1726 · Venezia

  • Nicola Maria Nicolai

    IT

    1756 · Roma

  • Placido Nicolai

    1903 · Spoleto

  • Filippo Nicolai

    IT

    1916 · Caprarola

  • Bruno Nicolai

    ENIT

    1926 · Roma

  • Sergio Nicolai

    IT

    1945 · Roma

  • Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai

    1955 · Roma

  • Roberto Nicolai

    1959 · Roma

  • Nicky Nicolai

    IT

    1960 · Roma

  • Gilda Nicolai

    1974 · provincia di Viterbo

  • Elena Nicolai

    1979 · Venezia

  • Paolo Nicolai

    ENIT

    1988 · Ortona

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.

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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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De nicolai

2 US arrivals

Nicolais

14 US arrivals

Niccolai

4 US arrivals

Nicolaia

1 US arrivals

Nicolaio

1 US arrivals

Nicola

131 US arrivals

Nicolas

8 US arrivals

Nicolao

6 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 Nicolai.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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