Cognome
Rao
The strongest concentration of Rao in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 102 of 170 arrivals (60 percent) originating there.
170
US arrivals
1830 to 1912
64
Comuni of
origin
9
Regioni
represented
10
Notable on
Wikipedia
Top regione
Sicilia
102 of 170
60 percent of arrivals
Distribuzione per regione
Concentration by regione
9 regioni represented
- Sicilia10260%
- Calabria3722%
- Campania2012%
- Abruzzo53%
- Puglia21%
- Lombardia11%
- Basilicata11%
- Lazio11%
- Molise11%
Origini per comune
Arrival records by comune
Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Rao was recorded between 1830 and 1912.
Persone notevoli
Notable Rao 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.
Radarrao
2 US arrivals
Raoli
3 US arrivals
Raoni
2 US arrivals
Ranao
1 US arrivals
Raone
1 US arrivals
Raosa
1 US arrivals
Ra
2 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 Rao.
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