Cognome

Porco

The strongest concentration of Porco in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 258 of 301 arrivals (86 percent) originating there.

301

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

63

Comuni of
origin

12

Regioni
represented

1

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 301
Abruzzo: 3 arrivalsBasilicata: 2 arrivalsCalabria: 258 arrivalsCampania: 9 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 4 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 4 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 14 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

258 of 301
86 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 8
8 to 26
26 to 77
77+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

12 regioni represented

  • Calabria25886%
  • Sicilia145%
  • Campania93%
  • Emilia-Romagna41%
  • Lazio41%
  • Abruzzo31%
  • Marche21%
  • Piemonte21%
  • Basilicata21%
  • Veneto10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Molise10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Porco on Wikipedia

  • Francesco Porco

    IT

    1999 · Italia

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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Porrco

1 US arrivals

Porcoro

1 US arrivals

Porcosa

1 US arrivals

Porca

8 US arrivals

Porci

4 US arrivals

Porce

1 US arrivals

Porcolli

1 US arrivals

Lupica porco

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 Porco.

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