Cognome

Potente

The strongest concentration of Potente in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 11 of 25 arrivals (44 percent) originating there.

25

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

15

Comuni of
origin

7

Regioni
represented

1

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 25
Abruzzo: 2 arrivalsPuglia: 3 arrivalsCalabria: 11 arrivalsCampania: 6 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

11 of 25
44 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 0
0 to 1
1 to 3
3+

Persone notevoli

Notable Potente on Wikipedia

  • Antonietta Potente

    IT

    1958 · Loano

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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Potenti

3 US arrivals

Potento

1 US arrivals

Potentis

1 US arrivals

Potena

6 US arrivals

Potete

4 US arrivals

Poteno

1 US arrivals

Potenza

171 US arrivals

Patente

3 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 Potente.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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