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Rocco

The strongest concentration of Rocco in US arrival records points to Campania, with 282 of 635 arrivals (44 percent) originating there.

635

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

267

Comuni of
origin

17

Regioni
represented

33

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 635
Abruzzo: 35 arrivalsPuglia: 18 arrivalsBasilicata: 52 arrivalsCalabria: 121 arrivalsCampania: 282 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 28 arrivalsLiguria: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 3 arrivalsMarche: 3 arrivalsMolise: 19 arrivalsPiemonte: 14 arrivalsSicilia: 50 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

282 of 635
44 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 8
8 to 28
28 to 85
85+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

17 regioni represented

  • Campania28244%
  • Calabria12119%
  • Basilicata528%
  • Sicilia508%
  • Abruzzo356%
  • Lazio284%
  • Molise193%
  • Puglia183%
  • Piemonte142%
  • Marche30%
  • Toscana30%
  • Lombardia30%
  • Liguria20%
  • Veneto20%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Rocco 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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D'rocco

1 US arrivals

Di rocco

153 US arrivals

De rocco

17 US arrivals

La rocco

14 US arrivals

Lo rocco

3 US arrivals

Le rocco

1 US arrivals

Roccop

1 US arrivals

Del rocco

10 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 Rocco.

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