Cognome

Palumbo

The strongest concentration of Palumbo in US arrival records points to Campania, with 333 of 988 arrivals (34 percent) originating there.

988

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

339

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

56

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 988
Abruzzo: 79 arrivalsPuglia: 128 arrivalsBasilicata: 39 arrivalsCalabria: 84 arrivalsCampania: 333 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 52 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 9 arrivalsMarche: 5 arrivalsMolise: 103 arrivalsPiemonte: 6 arrivalsSicilia: 139 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 2 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivalsVeneto: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

333 of 988
34 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
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The largest share of Palumbo arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Salerno. If one of them is your ancestor, Italy may recognize you as a citizen under jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent).

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Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Campania33334%
  • Sicilia13914%
  • Puglia12813%
  • Molise10310%
  • Calabria849%
  • Abruzzo798%
  • Lazio525%
  • Basilicata394%
  • Lombardia91%
  • Piemonte61%
  • Marche51%
  • Veneto30%
  • Umbria20%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol20%
  • Toscana10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%
  • Liguria10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Palumbo 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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Palumbi

22 US arrivals

Palumba

20 US arrivals

Palumbio

4 US arrivals

Paliumbo

1 US arrivals

Palumebo

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 Palumbo.