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Pugliese

The strongest concentration of Pugliese in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 316 of 583 arrivals (54 percent) originating there.

583

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

199

Comuni of
origin

17

Regioni
represented

32

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 583
Abruzzo: 14 arrivalsValle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 29 arrivalsBasilicata: 29 arrivalsCalabria: 316 arrivalsCampania: 84 arrivalsLazio: 17 arrivalsLiguria: 3 arrivalsLombardia: 3 arrivalsMarche: 3 arrivalsMolise: 9 arrivalsPiemonte: 7 arrivalsSardegna: 4 arrivalsSicilia: 58 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 4 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Calabria

316 of 583
54 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 9
9 to 32
32 to 95
95+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

17 regioni represented

  • Calabria31654%
  • Campania8414%
  • Sicilia5810%
  • Puglia295%
  • Basilicata295%
  • Lazio173%
  • Abruzzo142%
  • Molise92%
  • Piemonte71%
  • Sardegna41%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol41%
  • Liguria31%
  • Marche31%
  • Lombardia31%
  • Veneto10%
  • Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste10%
  • Toscana10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Pugliese 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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Pugliesi

89 US arrivals

Puglieso

2 US arrivals

Pugliese luigi

1 US arrivals

Apugliese

6 US arrivals

Pougliese

1 US arrivals

Pugliessi

1 US arrivals

Puglisese

1 US arrivals

Pugliese cesari

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 Pugliese.

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