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Quaranta

The strongest concentration of Quaranta in US arrival records points to Campania, with 44 of 142 arrivals (31 percent) originating there.

142

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

76

Comuni of
origin

10

Regioni
represented

30

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 142
Abruzzo: 15 arrivalsPuglia: 14 arrivalsBasilicata: 12 arrivalsCalabria: 13 arrivalsCampania: 44 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 9 arrivalsMolise: 27 arrivalsPiemonte: 2 arrivalsSicilia: 5 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

44 of 142
31 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 4
4 to 13
13+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

10 regioni represented

  • Campania4431%
  • Molise2719%
  • Abruzzo1511%
  • Puglia1410%
  • Calabria139%
  • Basilicata128%
  • Lazio96%
  • Sicilia54%
  • Piemonte21%
  • Emilia-Romagna11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Quaranta 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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Quaranto

7 US arrivals

Quarante

6 US arrivals

Quarantallo

1 US arrivals

Quarantio

2 US arrivals

Aquaranta

1 US arrivals

Quarata

1 US arrivals

Quarantino

4 US arrivals

Quarantina

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 Quaranta.

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