Cognome

Rossi

The strongest concentration of Rossi in US arrival records points to Campania, with 615 of 2,531 arrivals (24 percent) originating there.

2,531

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

734

Comuni of
origin

19

Regioni
represented

623

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 2,531
Abruzzo: 327 arrivalsPuglia: 68 arrivalsBasilicata: 59 arrivalsCalabria: 149 arrivalsCampania: 615 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 70 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 4 arrivalsLazio: 321 arrivalsLiguria: 76 arrivalsLombardia: 110 arrivalsMarche: 94 arrivalsMolise: 264 arrivalsPiemonte: 65 arrivalsSardegna: 5 arrivalsSicilia: 105 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 12 arrivalsToscana: 94 arrivalsUmbria: 48 arrivalsVeneto: 45 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

615 of 2,531
24 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 18
18 to 62
62 to 185
185+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

19 regioni represented

  • Campania61524%
  • Abruzzo32713%
  • Lazio32113%
  • Molise26410%
  • Calabria1496%
  • Lombardia1104%
  • Sicilia1054%
  • Marche944%
  • Toscana944%
  • Liguria763%
  • Emilia-Romagna703%
  • Puglia683%
  • Piemonte653%
  • Basilicata592%
  • Umbria482%
  • Veneto452%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol120%
  • Sardegna50%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia40%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Rossi 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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M rossi

1 US arrivals

De rossi

21 US arrivals

Di rossi

4 US arrivals

Rossio

5 US arrivals

Del rossi

17 US arrivals

Rosi

64 US arrivals

Ross

2 US arrivals

Rossini

134 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 Rossi.

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