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Perri

The strongest concentration of Perri in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 613 of 764 arrivals (80 percent) originating there.

764

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

172

Comuni of
origin

16

Regioni
represented

6

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 764
Abruzzo: 9 arrivalsPuglia: 7 arrivalsBasilicata: 21 arrivalsCalabria: 613 arrivalsCampania: 31 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 5 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 14 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 3 arrivalsMarche: 3 arrivalsMolise: 11 arrivalsPiemonte: 6 arrivalsSicilia: 24 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 3 arrivalsToscana: 12 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

613 of 764
80 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 18
18 to 61
61 to 184
184+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

16 regioni represented

  • Calabria61380%
  • Campania314%
  • Sicilia243%
  • Basilicata213%
  • Lazio142%
  • Toscana122%
  • Molise111%
  • Abruzzo91%
  • Puglia71%
  • Piemonte61%
  • Emilia-Romagna51%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol30%
  • Lombardia30%
  • Marche30%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Liguria10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Perri 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 perri

10 US arrivals

De perri

2 US arrivals

Perria

2 US arrivals

Perris

2 US arrivals

Perrin

1 US arrivals

Peri

81 US arrivals

Perrino

105 US arrivals

Perrini

31 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 Perri.

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