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Palermo

The strongest concentration of Palermo in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 260 of 769 arrivals (34 percent) originating there.

769

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

239

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

28

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 769
Abruzzo: 21 arrivalsPuglia: 31 arrivalsBasilicata: 99 arrivalsCalabria: 158 arrivalsCampania: 115 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 9 arrivalsLombardia: 5 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 40 arrivalsPiemonte: 15 arrivalsSardegna: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 260 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 4 arrivalsToscana: 6 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

260 of 769
34 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 8
8 to 26
26 to 78
78+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Sicilia26034%
  • Calabria15821%
  • Campania11515%
  • Basilicata9913%
  • Molise405%
  • Puglia314%
  • Abruzzo213%
  • Piemonte152%
  • Lazio91%
  • Toscana61%
  • Lombardia51%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol41%
  • Sardegna10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Umbria10%
  • Veneto10%
  • Marche10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Palermo 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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Di palermo

14 US arrivals

La palermo

2 US arrivals

Palermi

5 US arrivals

Palerma

1 US arrivals

Palermotto

3 US arrivals

Daino palermo

1 US arrivals

Dipalermo

38 US arrivals

Palermino

7 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 Palermo.

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